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Agios Zenon was born to rich and aristocratic parents in the province of Ponto in Asia Minor. He enlisted in the army as a special courier of Emperor Flavius Valens ( 364-378 AD) whom he served with great devotion. He carried the Emperor’s messages…

Τhe murals depicted on this set of three stamps originate from the Chapel of Agios Themonianus (a corruption of the name Agios Euphemianos) from the village of Lysi, now in the Turkish occupied part of Cyprus. The Chapel lies a mile to the south of…

Τhe building known as the “Lyssiotis Mansion”, and situated on Makarios III Avenue, Lefkosia, is the work of architect Photiades. It was built in 1928-9 by Petros Aloneftis and given as dowry to his daughter Maria.

Its thin columns,…

Τhe year is 10,000 BC, the hunters are roaming the land in search of prey, whence did they come, we do not know, were they the ancestors of the Neolithic dwellers of Choirokitia settlement of 7000 BC, again we do not know. But at the excavated site…

Τhe Social Insurance Scheme was first implemented in January 1957. It is compulsory to all legally employed and self-employed citizens of Cyprus who are eligible for social insurance.

The 1957 benefits included those for marriage and maternity,…

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…

Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden Powell (Lord), British General and founder of the Boy Scout Movement in 1908 and in 1910 with his sister Agnes, the Girl Guides, was born in London in 1857 and died in 1941.

The world committee of the World…

For those who do not ride one, motorcycles always appear suicidal, but enthusiasts of this mode of transport find them exhilarating as it gives them a sense of freedom and independence to go where other modes of transport fail to take them. With …

Echinodermata are among many wonders of the sea and are part of the exotic marine life on our planet. There are some 7000 known species of echinodermata. Anyone may have seen a star fish on the beach but none can live on land or in fresh water. The…

In 2006 the Holy Church of Agiou Eleftheriou, a dependency of Machairas monastery in Lefkosia, celebrated the bicentenary of its construction. The church, hidden from the sights of passers by on Onasagoras street in the old walled city of Lefkosia,…