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Cyprus (/ˈsaɪprəs/ ⓘ), officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, north of the Sinai Peninsula, south of the Anatolian Peninsula, and west of the Levant. It is geographically a part of West Asia, but its cultural ties and geopolitics are overwhelmingly Southeast European. Cyprus is the third-largest and third-most populous island in the Mediterranean. It is east of Greece, north of Egypt, south of Turkey, and west of Lebanon and Syria. Its capital and largest city is Nicosia. The northeast portion of the island is de facto governed by the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
Cyprus is home to some of the oldest water wells in the world. Cyprus was settled by Mycenaean Greeks in two waves in the 2nd millennium BC. As a strategic location in the Eastern Mediterranean, it was subsequently occupied by several major powers, including the empires of the Assyrians, Egyptians and Persians, from whom the island was seized in 333 BC by Alexander the Great. Subsequent rule by Ptolemaic Egypt, the Classical and Eastern Roman Empire, Arab caliphates for a short period, the French Lusignan dynasty and the Venetians was followed by over three centuries of Ottoman rule between 1571 and 1878 (de jure until 1914).
Cyprus was placed under the United Kingdom's administration based on the Cyprus Convention in 1878 and was formally annexed by the UK in 1914. The future of the island became a matter of disagreement between the two prominent ethnic communities, Greek Cypriots, who made up 77% of the population in 1960, and Turkish Cypriots, who made up 18% of the population. From the 19th century onwards, the Greek Cypriot population pursued enosis, union with Greece, which became a Greek national policy in the 1950s. The Turkish Cypriot population initially advocated the continuation of the British rule, then demanded the annexation of the island to Turkey, and in the 1950s, together with Turkey, established a policy of taksim, the partition of Cyprus and the creation of a Turkish polity in the north. (Full article...)
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Paphos (/ˈpæfɒs/ PAF-oss; Greek: Πάφος [ˈpafos]; Turkish: Baf;) is a coastal city in southwest Cyprus and the capital of Paphos District. In classical antiquity, two locations were called Paphos: Old Paphos, today known as Kouklia, and New Paphos. It is the fourth-largest city in the country, after Nicosia, Limassol and Larnaca, with an urban population of 63,600 in 2018.
The current city of Paphos lies on the Mediterranean coast, about 50 km (30 mi) west of Limassol (the biggest port on the island), both of which are connected by the A6 highway. Paphos International Airport is the country's second-largest airport, and is a gateway to western and southern Cyprus. The city has a subtropical-Mediterranean climate, with the mildest temperatures on the island. (Full article...)Cyprus news
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- Image 1The north–south checkpoint has been open since 2003 (from Cyprus problem)
- Image 2Zeus Keraunios, 500–480 BC, Nicosia museum (from Cyprus)
- Image 3Kyrenia Castle was originally built by the Byzantines and enlarged by the Venetians. (from Cyprus)
- Image 5Foreign Ministers of the European Union countries in Limassol during Cyprus Presidency of the EU in 2012 (from Cyprus)
- Image 7Zeus Keraunios, 500-480 BC, Nicosia museum (from History of Cyprus)
- Image 8Cathedral of Saint Nicholas, consecrated in 1328, the largest medieval building in Famagusta, where the Kings of Cyprus were crowned also as Kings of Jerusalem. In 1571 having fallen to the Ottoman Empire it became the Mosque of Mağusa, and remains a mosque today (from History of Cyprus)
- Image 9The Armenian Alphabet at the Melkonian Educational Institute. Armenian is recognised as a minority language in Cyprus. (from Cyprus)
- Image 10Cypriot cult image. 'Red Polished Ware', 2100–2000 BC. Museum zu Allerheiligen (from History of Cyprus)
- Image 13Supreme Court of Justice (from Cyprus)
- Image 14Varosha (Maraş), a suburb of Famagusta, was abandoned when its inhabitants fled in 1974 and remains under Turkish military control. (from Cyprus)
- Image 16Welcoming ceremony of the former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev by the soldiers of the Cypriot National Guard (from Cyprus)
- Image 19UN tower in the buffer zone (from Cyprus)
- Image 21A copper mine in Cyprus. In antiquity, Cyprus was a major source of copper. (from Cyprus)
- Image 22Street in the divided capital of Nicosia (from Cyprus)
- Image 24Hoisting the British flag at Nicosia (from Cyprus)
- Image 25Cyprus is part of a monetary union, the eurozone (dark blue) and of the EU single market. (from Cyprus)
- Image 26Street close to the Nicosia border (from Cyprus problem)
- Image 27Red-polished ceramics from Enkomi, 1900–1725 BC. St. Barnabas Archaeological Museum, Salamis, Cyprus (from History of Cyprus)
- Image 28Büyük Han, a caravanserai in Nicosia, is an example of the surviving Ottoman architecture in Cyprus. (from Cyprus)
- Image 31Greek Cypriot negotiator Andreas Mavroyiannis and the Turkish Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Feridun Sinirlioğlu, in Ankara, within the scope of the 2014 Cyprus talks (from Cyprus problem)
- Image 34Limassol General Hospital (from Cyprus)
- Image 35A British soldier facing a crowd of Greek Cypriot demonstrators in Nicosia (1956) (from Cyprus)
- Image 38Base ring vessel of Late Bronze Age (from History of Cyprus)
- Image 40Ethnic map of Cyprus according to the 1960 census (from Cyprus)
- Image 41"TAKSİM" (division) graffiti on a wall in Nicosia in the late 1950s (from Cyprus problem)
- Image 422010 population by age and gender (from Cyprus)
- Image 43Statue of Liberty symbolising the independence of Cyprus. (from History of Cyprus)
- Image 46A map showing the division of Cyprus (from Cyprus)
- Image 48Ioannis Kigalas (c. 1622–1687) was a Nicosia born Greek Cypriot scholar and professor of Philosophy who was largely active in the 17th century. (from Cyprus)
- Image 49Proposed flag of the United Republic of Cyprus (from Cyprus problem)
- Image 50Turkish rally in Nicosia in January 1958 (from Cyprus problem)
- Image 51Archaeological site of Khirokitia with early remains of human habitation during the Aceramic Neolithic period (reconstruction) (from Cyprus)
- Image 54A Greek Cypriot demonstration in the 1930s in favour of Enosis (union) with Greece (from Cyprus problem)
- Image 58Population growth, 1961–2003 (numbers for the entire island, excluding Turkish settlers residing in Northern Cyprus) (from Cyprus)
- Image 59Cyprus in 1482 (from History of Cyprus)
- Image 60The Walls of Nicosia were built by the Venetians to defend the city in case of an Ottoman attack. (from Cyprus)
- Image 61Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan was the creator of the Annan plan. (from Cyprus problem)
- Image 62The "Green Line" in Nicosia, Cyprus. (from Cyprus problem)
- Image 63Ottoman admiral, geographer and cartographer Piri Reis' historical map of Cyprus (from Cyprus problem)
- Image 64 (from Cyprus problem)
- Image 65Cypri insvla nova descript 1573, Ioannes á Deutecum f[ecit]. Map of Cyprus newly drawn by Johannes van Deutecom, 1573. (from Cyprus)
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