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The Cyprus Regiment was a military unit of the British Army. Created by the British Government during World War II , it was made up of volunteers from the Greek Cypriot , Turkish Cypriot , Armenian, Maronite and Latin inhabitants of Cyprus , but also included other Commonwealth nationalities.
The British and Cyprus: An Outpost of Empire to Sovereign Bases, 1878–1974. The History Press. Smith, Colin (2009). England's Last War Against France: Fighting Vichy, 1940–1942. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Yiangou, Anastasia (2010). Cyprus in World War II: Politics and Conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean. I. B. Tauris.
British Post World War II Military Campaigns - Cyprus: Fighting the EOKA (2014) Joseph, Joseph S. Cyprus: Ethnic Conflict and International Politics: From Independence to the Threshold of the European Union (St. Martin's, 1997). Kaliber, Alper. "Turkey’s Cyprus policy: A case of contextual Europeanisation."
Cyprus deportation camp. The Cyprus internment camps were camps maintained in Cyprus by the British government for the internment of Jews who had immigrated or attempted to immigrate to Mandatory Palestine in violation of British policy. There were a total of 12 camps, which operated from August 1946 to January 1949, and in total held 53,510 Jews.
British Cyprus (Greek: Βρετανική Κύπρος; Turkish: Britanya Kıbrısı) was the island of Cyprus under the dominion of the British Empire, administered sequentially from 1878 to 1914 as a British protectorate, from 1914 to 1925 as a unilaterally annexed military occupation, and from 1925 to 1960 as a Crown colony.
The Cyprus Emergency [note 1] was a conflict fought in British Cyprus between April 1955 and March 1959. [8]The National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA), a Greek Cypriot right-wing nationalist guerrilla organisation, began an armed campaign in support of the end of British colonial rule and the unification of Cyprus and Greece (Enosis) in 1955.
Commander British Forces Cyprus (CBF) and Administrator of the Sovereign Base Areas is a two-star appointment, alternating every three years between a British Army major-general and a Royal Air Force air vice-marshal. Consequently, the Chief of Staff British Forces Cyprus (COS) is a one-star appointment from the opposite service of the commander.
Following the end of World War II and the UN Partition Plan, a civil war between Palestinian Arabs and Jews broke out and lasted until the British withdrawal of the territory in May 1948, which later drew in neighbouring nations into the conflict, causing the start of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.