Mallia is a mixed village in the province of Limassol, in the geographic region of the vine-villages of Limassol- Paphos, at about 34 kilometers northwesterly of the city of Limassol.

Mallia is built at an average altitude of 650 meters and its landscape is dismembered by a lot of streams that are tributaries of Hapotami. In the southerly western side of the settlement, the altitude reaches the 695 meters.

It accepts a medium annual rainfall of 680 millimeters. In the region are cultivated the vines of wine varieties, few cereals, sesame and apple trees. There are also enough uncultivated extents with wild bushy vegetation.

As far as transportation is concerned, Mallia is connected at the west side with the village Gerovasa (around 5 Km), at the north-eastern side with the village Vasa (around 4 km.), at the north-western side with the village Arsos (around 4 Km.) and at the south-eastern side with the village Kissousa (around 1,5 Km).

The village had some demographic fluctuations. In 1881 its residents were 477 that were increased to 494 in 1891, they were decreased to 468 in 1901, increased to 563 in 1911, to 638 in 1921, but were decreased to 635 in 1931. In 1946 the residents of Mallia were 706(592 Turkishcypriots and 114 Greekcypriots), 712 in 1960(624 Turkishcypriots and 88 Greekcypriots), but decreased to 497 in 1973(427 Turkishcypriots and 70 Greekcypriots). After the Turkish invasion in 1974, the Turkishcypriots residents of Mallia abandoned their village (in 1975) and then Greekcypriot refugees became the new residents of the village. In 1976 the residents of Mallia together with the Greekcypriot refugees that were installed at the village, were 390 but were decreased to 215 in 1982. In the last inventory of 2001 the residents of the village were 58.

According to the prevailing opinion, the name of village has ancient origin and it rescues the name of an ancient Greek city of Minor Asia that was called Malos. It is likely that the first residents of Mallia came from this city. In the old days, ancient objects were found in the region of the village, which proves that the region had residents from the ancient years.

The presence of many Turks at the village leads to the affair, that the village was a mansion fief, before the Turkish conquest of Cyprus in 1570-71 that was confiscated later by the new conquerors.

The Turkishcypriot residents of Mallia named the village Baglarbasi that can be translated as beautiful vineyard.

The mosque of the village was built before the English possession of Cyprus (1878). Before 1878 it had functioned at the village a Turkish school also, while a second one was founded afterwards in 1916. Until 1963 a police station functioned at the community, as well as a court, which assembled one time per month, in order to decide for the affairs of the region. All these elements testify that Mallia was one of the administrative centers of the region.

Some trouble was created in the village afterwards the mutiny of the Turkishcypriots in 1963. The Turkishcypriots were numerically the majority in the community, however these Turkishcypriots constituted a small minority in the region, after the Greeks dominated in the villages around. Thus many Turkishcypriots residents of Mallia abandoned their village in 1964, in order to strengthen their Turkishcypriot regions and were installed mainly in the Turkish district of Limassol and in the village Avdimou. Finally they were all transported in 1975 by their leadership in the Turkish possessed area in the northern department of Cyprus and concretely in the village Prasteio Morfou.