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Cyprus's geographic position has caused the island to be influenced by differing Eastern Mediterranean civilisations over the millennia. Periods of Cyprus's history from 1050 BC have been named according to styles of pottery found, as follows: [ 1] Cypro-Geometric I: 1050–950 BC. Cypro-Geometric II: 950–900 BC.
Protectorate of Cyprus (1878−1914) [edit] In 1878, as a result of the Cyprus Convention, the United Kingdomreceived as a protectorate the island of Cyprusfrom the Ottoman Empirein exchange for United Kingdom's military support to the Ottoman Empire should Russia attempt to take possession of territories of the Ottomans in the Middle East. [1]
Cyprus. / 35.167°N 33.367°E / 35.167; 33.367. Cyprus[ f] ( / ˈsaɪprəs / ⓘ ), officially the Republic of Cyprus, [ g] is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. It is geographically a part of West Asia, but its cultural ties and geopolitics are overwhelmingly Southeast European.
The Chronological History of the island of Cyprus, later described as "the only scholarly monograph of modern Greek literature since the fall of Constantinople", is published by Kyprianos Kouriokourineos, one of the most prominent Greek-Cypriot intellectuals and clerics of the 18th century. [88]
The Ancient Greek historian Herodotus (5th century BC) claims that the city of Kourion, near present-day Limassol, was founded by Achaean settlers from Argos.This is further supported by the discovery of a Late Bronze Age settlement lying several kilometres from the site of the remains of the Hellenic city of Kourion, whose pottery and architecture indicate that Mycenaean settlers did indeed ...
The entire island of Cyprus surrendered after their capital, Salamis, was surrounded and besieged. [3] At least 50 military operations occurred in Cyprus between this first campaign in 648 until the last one in 650. [3] In 688, the emperor Justinian II and the caliph Abd al-Malik reached an unprecedented agreement.
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 Portal. 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.