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This set closed a chapter in the history of Cyprus stamps that did not portray the island's soul, traditions and values. It was a period where the ideal was everything British and more over that of the King or Queen. In the stamps of this period…

The stamps that existed at the postal offices in the island as well as those in Great Britain were considered as assets of the Republic of Cyprus. It was accordingly decided to overprint them rather than destroy them and to use them for postal and…

A land, Where mythology and history intermingle, Where painted churches with Byzantine frescoes past glories bring to mind,Where Crusader castles and Frankish monasteries dot the mountains, Where Churches and Mosques stand side by side, Where a…

The reign of King George V saw the First World War in which an estimated 10 million men lost their lives, the Irish Free State Settlement of 1922 and the general strike of 1926. The post war years became known as the roaring twenties. He began the…

The reign of King George V saw the First World War in which an estimated 10 million men lost their lives, the Irish Free State Settlement of 1922 and the general strike of 1926. The post war years became known as the roaring twenties. He began the…

Fiammetto Rocco, in her book "The Miraculous Fever-tree: Malaria, Medicine and the Cure that Changed the World" tells us how in 1723 ten years after the death of six cardinals from "Malaria" i.e. bad air, of the Roman marshes, a Jesuit priest in Peru…

The reign of King George V saw the First World War in which an estimated 10 million men lost their lives, the Irish Free State Settlement of 1922 and the general strike of 1926. The post war years became known as the roaring twenties. He began the…

St. Hilarion Castle

The reign of King George V saw the First World War in which an estimated 10 million men lost their lives, the Irish Free State Settlement of 1922 and the general strike of 1926. The post war years became known as the roaring twenties. He began the…

This stamp depicts a jug of Bichrome ware decorated in the "freefield" style with a bull sniffing a lotus flower.It belongs to the Archaic Period (750-650 B.C.) and was discovered at Arnadi.It is now in the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia.The Archaic Period…