05 Nov 2024
This sketch presents the members of the Legislative Council of 1928. The Turkish members are wearing a fez. The …
29 Oct 2024
Joseph Vermeiren (d.1990) was a Flemish geologist born in Bruges, Belgium. He studied mining and engineering at Louvain University and …
22 Oct 2024
Rubia tinctorum known locally as rizari or alizarin is a bush that grows in southern Europe and south-west Asia. The …
15 Oct 2024
Henna is a reddish dye prepared from the dried and ground leaves of the henna bush. It has been …
08 Oct 2024
Hamilton Lang, the British manager of the Ottoman Bank in Cyprus, had a farm in Pyla. He observed …
01 Oct 2024
In the mid-war years, fathers of poor families would seek wealthy families to entrust their daughters with, so they …
24 Sep 2024
George Jeffery was an architect, historian and the Director of Antiquities during the early colonial years.
17 Sep 2024
There is a bastion on the south of Mustafa Pasha Masjid. During the medieval period, the surrounding area was the …
10 Sep 2024
In 1222 a Cistercian nunnery existed on the location of today’s Panayia Phaneromeni church.
03 Sep 2024
A sure sign of affluence in Nicosia was the establishment of the first savings organization in 1898, which by …
27 Aug 2024
In 1897 the first state hospital was built in Nicosia near Paphos Gate, and in 1912 a mental asylum …
20 Aug 2024
In 1882 Nicosia acquired its first street lamps, while in 1903 electricity arrived, first lighting up Government House. Christodoulos …
13 Aug 2024
Although Cyprus escaped the Second World War something else happened which puzzled the then Governor Sir William Battershill: All …
06 Aug 2024
In the village of Lysi, a poor peasant, one of the few who could read and write, kept a …
30 Jul 2024
According to Anatolian tradition, people respect the dead and believe they should remain close to the living. As a …
23 Jul 2024
Lorenzo Warriner Pease, the first American missionary in Cyprus, wrote in his diary on 18 July 1836:
16 Jul 2024
The personification of diseases is a universal phenomenon. In Cyprus, three main epidemics plagued the island over the centuries and …
09 Jul 2024
During the end of the nineteenth century, France and England were antagonising each other as to who would be …
02 Jul 2024
Situated in the Mesaoria plain, at Pyroi (Nicosia district), on the east bank of the Yialias river is a …
25 Jun 2024
Just north of the village of Koutsoventis, at the foothills of Buffavento, is the Monastery of Saint John Chrysostomos. …
18 Jun 2024
This village in the Troodos mountains lies at an altitude of 1100 meters. It is believed that it existed since …
11 Jun 2024
Shakespeare wrote his play Othello in 1603-1604. His source was the story of a Moorish Captain (third decade, story …
04 Jun 2024
Keryneia, Ceryneia, Keronia or Keraunia, Cinyiriam, or Kerini, Kyrenia, Cyrene, has been in existence since the 13th century BC.
28 May 2024
Magda Ohnefalsch-Richter mentions the story of a Greek priest in Famagusta who heals and saves people bitten by the poisonous …