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CYPRUS, an island on the borders of Hellenism and the Orient - CHRONOLOGY

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"isolated piece of the Taurus emerged from the sea" with the beautiful formula Paul Morand, Cyprus is the third in size island of the Mediterranean, after Sicily and Sardinia. Extended over 9250 km2, the island is 65 km from the Turkish coast of Cilicia and 85 km from those of Syria. With long coastline of 648 km, Cyprus has an irregular shape and extends to oust is about 225 km from Cape Arnauati at Cape Andreas. Its maximum width, from Cape Gata to Cape Kormakiti south to the north, is about 97 km. Two major mountain ranges stretched from west to east flank of the central plain Messorée which is the granary of the island. The southern range is higher and reaches 1920 m on Mount Olympus. The Mediterranean climate is by its sweetness, but a valuable agriculture depends on the regularity of rainfall. Overall, the island has serious natural assets, particularly because of the wealth of his basement that makes this land one of the first regions producing copper from the beginnings of metallurgy. Located close to Asia Minor, Syria and even Egypt, near the Aegean islands and Crete, Cyprus has prepared since antiquity in a situation of "geostrategic" privileged and empires clashed in these regions always sought to control it, the struggle between the Ptolemies and Seleucids appearing on this particularly revealing. Later, when will the Muslim expansion, it will be an outpost of Byzantine and then, once Latin became the rear base Frankish states in the Holy Land. Diving for three centuries in the Ottoman night, she regains her interest in playing the great powers of the nineteenth century, close to Suez and the "sick man" Ottoman, but England - who made one of points to support his large Mediterranean policy - will eventually abandon it when it comes time to decolonization. The existence on the island of two communities, Greek (majority at 78%) and Turkish complicated, since independence, the life of this small country turned into a symbol and issue by Greece and Turkey, however, Allies in the Atlantic camp. Membership in Europe will possibly overcome the crisis that started in 1974 during the Turkish invasion of northern Cyprus but the reaction of the Greek majority in the referendum about unification and the reluctance shown in Europe with the process of Turkish accession to the EU still leave room for considerable uncertainty.

From the first occupants integration in the Greco-Roman

No Paleolithic site Mesolithic or has been discovered in Cyprus and
the oldest relics found by archaeologists date back to pre-pottery Neolithic. This culture is best known from a village of stone houses round Khirokitia identified and dated by the C14 -5700 BC. The inhabitants lived on agriculture and hunting and have left the curious figures of andesite, which are the oldest examples of Cypriot sculpture. This phase of the Neolithic and abruptly ends the first period following easily identified corresponds to the Neolithic -3500 recently characterized by painted pottery found also Khirokitia but also Sotira and Kalavassos.

fourth millennium BC: Emergence of a culture Chalcolithic on the site Erimi near Limassol. [...] READ MORE

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