22 Mar 2024
The French periodical LeTour du Monde 1897, in an extensive article by Émile Deschamps, has some interesting and very …
15 Mar 2024
Freya Stark was in Cyprus in 1942. She was invited to Government House where she was appalled by the …
08 Mar 2024
In 1878, Esme Scott-Stevenson visited Asomatos village where a wedding was taking place.
01 Mar 2024
On 26 March 1838, while walking in the streets of Nicosia, Lorenzo Warriner Pease, an American missionary …
23 Feb 2024
John Locke, while visiting Famagusta noted the following:
16 Feb 2024
Leontios Macheras describes what happened:
09 Feb 2024
The British writer and traveller W. H. Mallock stayed at Government House in 1889 as the guest of Sir Henry …
02 Feb 2024
In 1835, the American missionary Lorenzo Warriner Pease arrived in Larnaca. This is what he saw when the …
26 Jan 2024
However the captain told us he wished to land, and in fact, he did land with a few of the …
19 Jan 2024
He travelled around the island and visited the Monastery of the Holy Cross. After a steep climb, he arrived …
12 Jan 2024
Moreover, in that same city of Famagosta, while I was there a certain rich citizen died, and all our clerks …
05 Jan 2024
On the same day the Emperor of Cyprus, seeing that all his people were deserting him, sent ambassadors to the …
29 Dec 2023
As the Reverend Edward Daniel Clarke approached Nicosia in 1801, he had the surprise of his life…
"As we …
22 Dec 2023
In 1765 the Tuscan merchant Antonio Mondaini ventured into Kyrenia and there, while conversing with the local Ottoman dignitaries he …
15 Dec 2023
Leontios Machairas wrote in the 15th century about the Nestorians in Famagusta.
08 Dec 2023
The intrepid Gladys Peto did not spend much time in Paphos but had some good words to say about the …
01 Dec 2023
Writing to his parents, the Swedish archaeologist Alfred Westholm expressed his inner thoughts about Vouni and the locals working with …
24 Nov 2023
In December 1895 a couple of friends from the British army stationed in Cyprus decided to take a tour of …
17 Nov 2023
The French antiquarian Edmond Duthoit was in Cyprus in 1865. Writing to his parents from Cornos, just a few …
10 Nov 2023
In his book Cyprus: a Portrait and an Appreciation, written in 1957, Sir Harry Luke describes an unusual icon …
03 Nov 2023
In his book The Island of Cyprus, written in the 1760s, Abbe Giovanni Mariti writes about the madder of …
27 Oct 2023
The streets in one part of the city are long and straight and many of the houses are well built …
20 Oct 2023
September 17. I returned early to our vessel and stopped on the way to see a Greek Church in the …
13 Oct 2023
A manuscript has surfaced lately titled “Historic and Entertaining Letters on the Past and Present Conditions of the Island of …