Ancient Salamis Salamis (Ancient Greek: Σαλαμίς, Greek: Σαλαμίνα) is an ancient Greek city-state on the east coast of Cyprus, at the mouth of the river Pedieos, 6 km north of modern Famagusta. According to tradition,… Read More »Cypriot History – Salamis
Overview The Imperium Romannum differed fundamentally from Alexanders [the Great] empire in its social system, in its government, and as a geopolitical structure. The main territory and the centre of the power now lay in… Read More »Cypriot History – Roman Cyprus
Prominent Cypriots – Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios Career and influence Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios came from Kritou Terra in Paphos in western Cyprus. Early on he served as interpreter or dragoman. The dragoman was usually a Christian from the local… Read More »Cypriot History – Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios
Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus Isaac Komnenos or Comnenus (Greek: Ἰσαάκιος Κομνηνός, romanized: Isaakios Komnēnos; c. 1155 – 1195/1196), ruled Cyprus from 1184 to 1191, before Richard the Lionheart, King of England conquered the island during… Read More »Cypriot History – Isaac Komnenos
THE KINGDOM OF CYPRUS 1192-1489 The Kingdom of Cyprus was a Crusader state that existed between 1192 and 1489. It was ruled by the French House of Lusignan. It comprised not only the island of… Read More »Cypriot History – The Kingdom of Cyprus
Cyprus internment camps were camps run by the British government for internment of Jews who had immigrated or attempted to immigrate to Mandatory Palestine in violation of British policy. There were a total of 12… Read More »Cypriot History – Cyprus internment camps
Roman Kourion (c. 50 BC – AD 500) Cyprus was annexed by Rome in 58 BC after complex political and diplomatic wrangling between the Roman Senate and the Ptolemaic kingdom. After a generation of financial… Read More »Cypriot History – Roman Kourion
The Kitos War or The Jewish Revolt as it has come to be known as (115–117; Hebrew: מרד הגלויות: mered ha’galuyot or mered ha’tfutzot [מרד התפוצות]; translation: rebellion of the diaspora. Latin: Tumultus Iudaicus) was… Read More »Cypriot History – The Kitos War
On this day, at 8.15AM, 15th of July, 1974, a military junta headed by Dimitrios Ioannidis, the hardliner Greek nationalist brigadier, shot Archbishop Makaris III/ The 1974 coup d’état in Cyprus was a military coup d’état… Read More »Cyprus coup d’état 1974
Athienou mayor Kyriakos Kareklas appealed to US ambassador Judith Garber for help in having a crossing point opened in the Larnaca village during her visit there on Wednesday. Garber was in the buffer-zone village to… Read More »Athienou mayor calls for US help in opening new crossing point
