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Ile de Chypre (25 March 1985 – 2010) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. After showing some promise as a juvenile he improved to become a leading handicapper in 1988, winning two races and being placed in the Old Newton Cup , Magnet Cup and Cambridgeshire Handicap .
Cyprus [f] (/ ˈ s aɪ p r ə s / ⓘ), officially the Republic of Cyprus, [g] is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.Although it is geographically located in West Asia, its cultural identity and geopolitical make-up are overwhelmingly Southeast European.
Chypre by Coty, advertisement in French Vogue, 1937 Chypre is French for Cyprus.. The term chypre is French for the island of Cyprus.Its connection to perfumery originated with the first composition to feature the bergamot-labdanum-oakmoss accord, François Coty's perfume Chypre from 1917 (now preserved at the Osmothèque), whose name was inspired by the fact that its raw materials came ...
The Department of Antiquities was established in 1935 by the British colonial government. [3] John Robert Hilton served as the first director between 1934 and 1935. He was succeeded by Peter Megaw (1935-1960), Porphyrios Dikaios (1960-1963), Vassos Karageorghis (1963-1989), and Athanasios Papageorgiou (1989-1991).
Among the few first MP3 blogs were Tonspion, Buzzgrinder, Fluxblog, Stereogum and Said the Gramophone. Tonspion is the first MP3 blog in Germany and started in 1998 with reviews and downloads that international artists and labels gave out free on the web. Buzzgrinder began in 2001 as a way for musician SethW to fill time on the road.
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the European Union set its sights on expanding its territory to across the eastern bloc.The expansion arose as an opportunity to try and resolve the Cypriot dispute which had left the island partitioned for decades, whilst widening the European Union's sphere of influence towards the eastern Mediterranean.
The name Ayia Napa is derived from a Venetian-era monastery of the same name, located in the centre of the town, next to the square that today is the clubbing centre. [2] The word Ayia means "holy" in Greek.
The 1974 Cypriot coup d'état was a military coup d'état executed by the Cypriot National Guard and sponsored by the Greek military junta.On 15 July 1974 the coup plotters removed the sitting President of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III, from office and installed pro-Enosis nationalist Nikos Sampson.