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The icon of the Virgin Hodegetria comes from the Church and Monastery of St. Savva near Prastio village in Paphos. According to an inscription over the west door, the church was re-built in 1501 and again restored during the first half of the 18th…

Lions International Emblem

83rd Inter-Parliamentary Conference

In the 20 years since its independence, Cyprus has had to provide significant improvements in the life of its citizens in spite of the destruction in 1974 resulting from the Turkish invasion, occupation of 37% of the land and appropriations of large…

During a recent trip to the supermarket in the neighborhood where we had just moved, an elderly lady approached me and politely asked if I could read her a label as she had forgotten her glasses. I did so with pleasure and she proceeded with her…

In 1955, following many years of diplomatic efforts when Great Britain never accepted to discuss the question of self- determination (its answer was always a curt " the subject is closed"), and the United Nations for years did not make a stand, a…

25th Anniversary of the Republic, Coat of arms

Personification of Autumn- House of Dionyssos, Paphos

Snow on Troodos Mountains

The stamp depicts the "Palaestra" wrestling school, which forms part of the sanctuary of Apollo Hylates in Curium and erected circa 100 A.D. In the 4th century the Phoenician "Reshef " became identified with the God Apollo and "Hylates", the local…