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The renowned contemporary philosopher Ioannis Theodorakopoulos wrote in the introduction of his work about Goethe's Faust, that to approach God, man with his logic conceived philosophy, with his feelings religion and with his imagination the arts. To…

Baptism (Monastery of St. John Lampadistis) . The renowned contemporary philosopher Ioannis Theodorakopoulos wrote in the introduction of his work about Goethe's Faust, that to approach God, man with his logic conceived philosophy, with his feelings…

Curium, one of the ten ancient city kingdoms was according to Herodotus founded by Greeks from Argos and the Peloponnese in 1200 B.C. However, archaeological evidence points to earlier settlements dating from the Mycenaean expansion. The 35m. stamp…

Rina Katselli, herself a refugee from the charming sea-side town of Kyrenia, and once a deputy in the House of Representatives wrote in her book "Blue Whale": "I could starve in my place, in Kyrenia, and nothing would I miss.
Now that I have a…

A small bird flies out of Karpassia Crying slowly, crying softly Crying at noon Crying at his fate .At all its impositions. Niki Ladaki Philippou "Manoulla Kypriotissa"
(Translated by B. Mihranian)

"The little treasure house of Antifonitis Monastery,… has sustained the most comprehensive looting and damage..."... "We managed to check 26 villages in all…. Since graveyards are usually some way outside the village these were checkable and, in…

When I entered George’s house for the first time I was impressed by the walking stick which was hanging in his sitting room. It was unusual and out of place. I suspected it was something special for him and made a point of asking him. One day I…

The artist who designed this stamp is A. Tassos. Tassos has designed and overseen the stamps of Cyprus from 1962 to 1976. In 1976 the first Cypriot designers came on the scene, but Tassos continued to design a number of other stamp issues until his…

Titina Loizidou, a Greek-Cypriot refugee from Kyrenia, filed a case in 1989 in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), against the Turkish government, stating that it had denied her access to her home in Kyrenia after the Turkish invasion of…

“Kataklysmos"", meaning flood, is a religious popular festival celebrated only in Cyprus and coincides with Pentecost Day. The earliest story of the flood appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh in the Mesopotamian city of Uruk and was written around 2125…