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After 82 years of British rule, on 15th August 1960, the Union Jack was lowered from Government House for the last time. Archbishop Makarios III was President and Turkish Cypriot leader Dr. Fazil Kuchuck Vice President. Sir Hugh Foot, last Governor…

50th Anniversary of the U.N. Organization

Founded in 1954, the European Football Association, UEFA, celebrated its 50th anniversary in the knowledge that it had contributed enormously in promoting young players, combating racism in football and organizing competitions such as the annual…

The forerunner of the Treaty of Rome was the 1951 Treaty of Paris that created the European Coal and Steel Community. The idea
conceived by Jean Monet and announced by Robert Schuman, the French Foreign Minister, on 9th May 1950, was the pooling of…

Nicos Nicolaides was born in Lefkosia in 1884. He did not complete his elementary education and was orphaned at childhood. He went to work early in life and was taught hagiography. He grew up to be a multi-talented writer and a self-taught painter.…

50th General Assembly of International Vine and Wine Office (Mosaic)

At the time of his untimely death in a tragic plane crash in 1999, Yiannos Kranidiotis was Deputy Foreign Minister of Greece responsible for the Cyprus problem and European issues. Born in Nicosia in 1947 he studied Law at the University of Athens…

1st April 2015, marks the 60th Anniversary of the commencement of the EOKA struggle for the liberation of Cyprus and its Union with Greece which finally led to the creation of the Republic of Cyprus. During a period of four years, the people of…

75th Anniversary of Rotary International

80th Anniversary of the Birth of Archbishop Makarios III