05 Nov 2024

Did you know? The Cyprus Legislative Council of 1928

This sketch presents the members of the Legislative Council of 1928. The Turkish members are wearing a fez. The …

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29 Oct 2024

Did you know? Joseph Vermeiren

Joseph Vermeiren (d.1990) was a Flemish geologist born in Bruges, Belgium. He studied mining and engineering at Louvain University and …

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22 Oct 2024

Did you know? Rizari

Rubia tinctorum known locally as rizari or alizarin is a bush that grows in southern Europe and south-west Asia. The …

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15 Oct 2024

Did you know? Henna

Henna is a reddish dye prepared from the dried and ground leaves of the henna bush. It has been …

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08 Oct 2024

Did you know? Hamilton Lang

Hamilton Lang, the British manager of the Ottoman Bank in Cyprus, had a farm in Pyla. He observed …

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01 Oct 2024

Did you know? The Lala

In the mid-war years, fathers of poor families would seek wealthy families to entrust their daughters with, so they …

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24 Sep 2024

Did you know? The Old Cannon

George Jeffery was an architect, historian and the Director of Antiquities during the early colonial years.

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17 Sep 2024

Did you know? St Napa bastion Famagusta

There is a bastion on the south of Mustafa Pasha Masjid. During the medieval period, the surrounding area was the …

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10 Sep 2024

Did you know? Phaneromeni church

In 1222 a Cistercian nunnery existed on the location of today’s Panayia Phaneromeni church.

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03 Sep 2024

Did you know? Nicosia in the 20th century

A sure sign of affluence in Nicosia was the establishment of the first savings organization in 1898, which by …

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27 Aug 2024

Did you know? Hygiene

In 1897 the first state hospital was built in Nicosia near Paphos Gate, and in 1912 a mental asylum …

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20 Aug 2024

Did you know? Ermou Street

In 1882 Nicosia acquired its first street lamps, while in 1903 electricity arrived, first lighting up Government House. Christodoulos …

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13 Aug 2024

Did you know? Bombing Cyprus

Although Cyprus escaped the Second World War something else happened which puzzled the then Governor Sir William Battershill: All …

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06 Aug 2024

Did you know? Chronicler of Lysi

In the village of Lysi, a poor peasant, one of the few who could read and write, kept a …

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30 Jul 2024

Did you know? Kaçkaç Dede

According to Anatolian tradition, people respect the dead and believe they should remain close to the living. As a …

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23 Jul 2024

Did you know? Remedies

Lorenzo Warriner Pease, the first American missionary in Cyprus, wrote in his diary on 18 July 1836:

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16 Jul 2024

Did you know? Epidemics

The personification of diseases is a universal phenomenon. In Cyprus, three main epidemics plagued the island over the centuries and …

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09 Jul 2024

Did you know? Le Charivari

During the end of the nineteenth century, France and England were antagonising each other as to who would be …

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02 Jul 2024

Did you know? St Antipas

Situated in the Mesaoria plain, at Pyroi (Nicosia district), on the east bank of the Yialias river is a …

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25 Jun 2024

Did you know? St Chrysostomos Monastery

Just north of the village of Koutsoventis, at the foothills of Buffavento, is the Monastery of Saint John Chrysostomos. …

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18 Jun 2024

Did you know? Platres

This village in the Troodos mountains lies at an altitude of 1100 meters. It is believed that it existed since …

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11 Jun 2024

Did you know? Othello

Shakespeare wrote his play Othello in 1603-1604. His source was the story of a Moorish Captain (third decade, story …

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04 Jun 2024

Did you know? Kyrenia

Keryneia, Ceryneia, Keronia or Keraunia, Cinyiriam, or Kerini, Kyrenia, Cyrene, has been in existence since the 13th century BC.

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28 May 2024

Did you know? Greek Priest in Famagusta

Magda Ohnefalsch-Richter mentions the story of a Greek priest in Famagusta who heals and saves people bitten by the poisonous …

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