Cyprus

A copper mine in Cyprus. In antiquity, Cyprus was a major source of copper. Cyprus ; }} (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Cypriot Republic; , , lit: Republic of Cyprus}} 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. Cyprus is the third largest and third-most populous island in the Mediterranean. It is east of Greece, north of Egypt, south of Turkey, and west of Lebanon and Syria. Its capital and largest city is Nicosia. Cyprus also shares land borders with Akrotiri and Dhekelia, a dependent territory of the United Kingdom. The northeast portion of the island is ''de facto'' governed by the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

Cyprus was first settled by hunter-gatherers around 13,000 years ago, with farming settlements emerging a few thousand years later. During the late Bronze Age, Cyprus, known in contemporary sources as Alashiya, developed an urbanised society closely connected to the wider Mediterranean world. Cyprus experienced waves of settlement by Mycenaean Greeks at the end of the 2nd millennium BC. It was subsequently occupied by several major powers, including the empires of the Assyrians, Egyptians and Persians, from whom the island was seized in 333 BC by Alexander the Great. Subsequent rule by Ptolemaic Egypt, the Classical and Eastern Roman Empire, Arab caliphates for a short period, the French Lusignan dynasty and the Venetians was followed by over three centuries of Ottoman rule between 1571 and 1878 (''de jure'' until 1914). Cyprus was placed under the United Kingdom's administration based on the Cyprus Convention in 1878 and was formally annexed by the UK in 1914.

The future of the island became a matter of disagreement between the two prominent ethnic communities, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots. From the 19th century onwards, the Greek Cypriot population pursued ''enosis'', union with Greece, which became a Greek national policy in the 1950s. The Turkish Cypriot population initially advocated the continuation of the British rule, then demanded the annexation of the island to Turkey, and in the 1950s, together with Turkey, established a policy of ''taksim'', the partition of Cyprus and the creation of a Turkish polity in the north. Following nationalist violence in the 1950s, Cyprus was granted independence in 1960. The crisis of 1963–64 brought further intercommunal violence between the two communities, displaced more than 25,000 Turkish Cypriots into enclaves and brought the end of Turkish Cypriot representation in the republic. On 15 July 1974, a coup d'état was staged by Greek Cypriot nationalists and elements of the Greek military junta. This action precipitated the Turkish invasion of Cyprus on 20 July, which led to the capture of the present-day territory of Northern Cyprus and the displacement of over 150,000 Greek Cypriots and 50,000 Turkish Cypriots. A separate Turkish Cypriot state in the north was established by unilateral declaration in 1983; the move was widely condemned by the international community, with Turkey alone recognising the new state. These events and the resulting political situation are matters of a continuing dispute.

Cyprus is a major tourist destination in the Mediterranean. The country has an advanced high-income economy. The Republic of Cyprus has been a member of the Commonwealth since 1961 and was a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement until it joined the European Union on 1 May 2004. On 1 January 2008, Cyprus joined the eurozone. Provided by Wikipedia
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    ...Cyprus. Tmēma Archaiotētōn...
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    ...USAID/Cyprus...
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    ...Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (Nicosia, Cyprus)...
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    Published 1999
    ...Cyprus. Grapheion Dēmosiōn Plērophoriōn...
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    Published 1999
    ...Cyprus. Ktēmatologiko kai Chōrometriko Tmēma...
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    ...International Conference "Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity" Nicosia, Cyprus...
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    Published 1995
    ...International Symposium Cyprus and the Sea Nicosia, Cyprus...
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    by Mitford, Terence Bruce
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    ...Cyprus. Tmēma Archaiotētōn...
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    by Karageorghis, Vassos
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    ...Cyprus. Thēma Archaiotētōn...
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    ...Cyprus. Department of Agriculture...
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    Published 1937
    ...Cyprus. Agricultural Department...
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    ...Cyprus. Tmēma Geōrgias...
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    by Dikaios, Porphyrios
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    ...Cyprus. Tmēma Archaiotētōn...
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    by Karageorghis, Vassos
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    ...Cyprus. Tmēma Archaiotētōn...
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