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Sophia Hadjipanteli (Greek: Σοφία Χατζηπαντελή; born 25 May 1997) is a Greek Cypriot model, [1] most notable for her unibrow look. [2] She initially gained public attention in the UK in 2017 and first appeared in fashion shows during London's Fashion week 2020. [3] [4] [5]
By 1943, some 80 percent of Cypriot girls attended primary school. [6] When, in 1960, elementary education was made compulsory, the two sexes were equally enrolled. [6] By the 1980s, girls made up 45 percent of those receiving secondary education. Only after the mid-1960s did women commonly leave Cyprus to receive higher education. [6]
In what appears to be a localized version in Cyprus however, Erinoma was a Cypriot girl of great beauty and chastity. The virgin goddesses Artemis and Athena both favoured her for her purity, but Aphrodite on the other hand disliked her, and she made Zeus fall in love with her, so that she would not escape from the domain of love.
People of Greek Cypriot descent (16 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Greek Cypriots" The following 187 pages are in this category, out of 187 total.
Faneromeni School (Greek: Παρθεναγωγείο Φανερωμένης; Turkish: Faneromeni Okulu), founded by Archbishop Makarios I in 1857, was the first all-girls school in Cyprus. The founder of the School, Archbishop Makarios I , was instrumental in the establishment of many other schools throughout the island of Cyprus in order to ...
Niki Marangou (1948–2013), Greek Cypriot painter, author, and poet; N. Loukia Nicolaidou (1909–1994), painter, first Cypriot woman to study art abroad; P.
The everyday language of Greek Cypriots is Cypriot Greek, a dialect of Modern Greek. It shares certain characteristics with varieties of Crete, the Dodecanese and Chios, as well as those of Asia Minor. Greek Cypriots are generally educated in Standard Modern Greek, though they tend to speak it with an accent and preserve some Greek Cypriot grammar.
Eleni Kyriacou (born 15 June 1980) is a Greek Cypriot fashion and costume designer who designed the costumes for the lighting of the Olympic Flame ceremony, first worn for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. In 2021, she also exposed a decades-old culture of bullying at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London.