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  • Creator is exactly "Cyprus Post, Republic of Cyprus"

The British journalist John Fielding of Thames TV together with his colleague Martin Smith were in the Turkish occupied part of Cyprus to shoot a film for the TV program " This week tonight". As they were being officially escorted ever y where, they…

Monastic Gospel books with intricate and beautiful illuminations provided craftsmen in the Middle Ages an opportunity to produce some of the most magnificent works of art. Gold and silversmiths of Cyprus who confined their work mainly on the…

Monastic Gospel books with intricate and beautiful illuminations provided craftsmen in the Middle Ages an opportunity to produce some of the most magnificent works of art. Gold and silversmiths of Cyprus who confined their work mainly on the…

When in 1840 Sir Rowland Hill invented the first postage stamp in the world, little did he know that stamp collecting would become a great universal hobby. In time it became known as the "King of hobbies and a hobby of Kings". King George V was an…

More than twenty five years ago, the Council of Europe launched its first nature conservation campaign to make Europeans generally aware of the overriding need to protect their environment. The existing threats to the environment are so serious that…

Trees of Cyprus are part of the natural heritage of the island. Two thousand years ago Eratosthenes (c.276194 B.C.), Greek astronomer and scholar had said that the fields of Cyprus
were so densely covered with trees that the land could not be…

20 years ago, one of the greatest Greek poets of the 20th century, wrote the "Hymn and Lament for Cyprus". The poem has five stanzas. There follows the 1st two lines and the last two lines of the 1st stanza. Bitter Island, sweet island, island…
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