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The intellectual history of Cyprus and its contribution to the European intellectual history may be attributed to all those distinguished Cypriot poets, writers, archaeologists and men of letters from the celebrated Stassinos to Costas Montis and the…

The first modern winery was built in 1893 in Limassol and by 1943 there were four major wineries supplying to the European and world markets. In the 1980s small wineries were established with a capacity of 50,000 to 300,000 bottles a year while the…

The wine "Commandaria" one of the best known for centuries derives its name from the Commandarie of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem who had settled at Kolossi.

Satyr (Silenius)

Dionysus, the God of wine, was the son of Zeus by Semele a Theban princess. It was on mount Nysa in Libya that he invented wine. A mosaic in the House of Dionysus discovered in 1962 in Paphos depicts the legend of Icarius the first mortal to be…