cyprus

     

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Trivia about cyprus

  • At 3,600 square miles, it's the largest island in the Mediterranean where Italian is not an official language
  • This Mediterranean country is the world's only nation whose flag bears a geographic outline of itself
  • Greeks & Turks share a statue of Liberty in this island country
  • Turkey invaded the northern part of this island nation in 1974
  • The U.N. security council voted to keep peace-keeping forces on this island near Turkey another 6 months
  • Elected in 2008, president Dimitris Christofias of this divided island nation is the EU's only communist head of state
  • Local dialects of Turkish & Greek are spoken on this Mediterranean island 40 miles south of Turkey
  • About 80% of this Mediterranean island's 700,000 people speak Greek; about 18% speak Turkish
  • Kyrenia, whose Turkish name is Girne, is a seaport & resort city on the Turkish part of this island
  • Troubled Mediterranean island nation whose flag is seen here
  • Enosis isn't a disease, but the historic desire of people on this 3500-square-mile island for union with Greece
  • A Greek military coup in 1974 briefly deposed Archbishop Makarios, president of this island nation
  • In thousands of years of history, this island seen here has been conquered & ruled by numerous empires & kings
  • United Nations troops first arrived to keep the peace on this eastern Mediterranean isle in March 1964
  • Greeks account for 77% of this country's people (& Greece isn't the word)
  • Nicosia & Limassol are the only 2 cities with a population of over 100,000 in this country
  • Nicosia
  • Othello kills himself on this island
  • Rich deposits of copper have been found on this Mediterranean island whose name means "copper"
  • This Mediterranean island split between Greek & Turkish areas is a little more than half the size of Hawaii
  • This island, 1/3 of which is Turkish-controlled, is often considered part of the Middle East
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  • The Venus Beach Hotel is at Paphos on this Mediterranean isle where Venus is said to have come out of the sea
  • In 1571, 70,000 Turks overcame 5,000 defenders of Famagusta, giving the Turks control of this island in the Mediterranean
  • A castle built by Crusaders dominates the port of Kyrenia on this island nation near Lebanon
  • Makarios III was the first president of this island nation
  • For decades the Green Line was the buffer zone between the Greek & Turkish forces on this island
  • Most of "Othello" is set on this island that was part of the Ottoman Empire when the play was written
  • Kypriaki Dimokratia
  • In the 1950s Georgios Theodoros Grivas fought to get this island to unite with Greece
  • Much of "Othello", including Desdemona's murder, takes place on this large island
  • Branches of this evergreen tree are used as a symbol of mourning
  • Mount Olympus is the highest point on this Eastern Mediterranean island
  • The last Templar headquarters & base for attacks on Palestine was this eastern Mediterranean island
  • A little known trilinguist, this island-dweller was fluent in Greek & Turkish as well as Latin
  • In Act II, Scene I of "Othello", Othello says, "Come, Desdemona, once more well met at" this island
  • The Layland type of this tree is named for the man in whose garden it was first found
  • Cape Andreas is at the pointy end of this island in the eastern Mediterranean
  • This island is 60 miles west of Syria & 40 miles south of Turkey
  • This nation that joined the E.U. as a divided country is working with the U.N. to reunite under a federal structure
  • Turkish is an official language of this island whose highest peak is called Mount Olympus
  • The Selimiye Mosque, which was formerly the Cathedral of Saint Sophia, is in Nicosia on this island
  • In 1985 Greek & Turkish community leaders failed to reach an agreement for this island's reunification
  • Kipriaki Dimokratia
  • Akrotiri is an enclave the U.K. held onto in the 1959 agreement that made this Mediterranean island independent
  • Copper was named for this island where it was abundant