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Τhe fresco depicting the Birth of Christ originates from the small Church of the Archangel Michael in the village of Vyzakia. The church contains one of most interesting series of wall paintings of the 16th century all of which introduce Venetian…

Established in 1959, the European Court of Human Rights adjudicates on individual and State applications alleging violations of civil and political rights set out in the European Convention on Human Rights.

The court is based in Strasbourg in the…

The Church of Agia Paraskevi, in the old village of Geroskipou in the Pafos district, is a three aisled vaulted basilica of five domes. It is the earliest example of this type of church in Cyprus and it embodies the characteristics of the early phase…

Τhe wild red jungle fowl is the ancestor of today’s chickens, which like all birds are smart and have communication skills. The term “pecking order” was coined by the Norwegian biologist Thorlief Schjelderup-Ebbe after observing that chickens…

Founded on 5th December 1959 by thirty five founding members, the Cyprus Philatelic Society continues to prosper, promoting philately in Cyprus and abroad, encouraging philatelic research, guiding and helping young people to appreciate philately and…

Τhese games are held every second year and European states with a population of less than a million are eligible to participate. The first games were held in San Marino in Italy in 1985 and Cyprus held the games for the first time in 1989.

The…

Αt the instigation of UNESCO and the “International Union of Geological Sciences”, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2008 as the “International Year of Planet Earth” and the three years 2007-2009 to be a period of international…

Βeyond the Milky Way astronomers have located many galaxies and one of these is the Andromeda galaxy which together with our own is located in a space cluster that includes the large Megellanic cloud and the small Megellanic cloud. This cluster…

Louis Braille was born in Coupvray, France in 1809. He was blind from the age of three but this did not deter him from joining the Institution of the Young Blind in Paris when he was ten years old. He studied organ playing and became professor of the…

Ιn November 1909 the first co-operative society was formed in the now Turkish occupied village of Lefkonico. Gradually new institutions came into being both in the countryside, towns and cities. Their original aim was the protection of family…