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Beach at Protaras

Bee-keeping in Cyprus has a history going back many centuries and visitors today to monasteries and villages can still come across beehives which are tended by monks and village folk.
Dennis Possot, a priest on his way to the Holy Places landed in…

Bee-keeping in Cyprus has a history going back many centuries and visitors today to monasteries and villages can still come across beehives which are tended by monks and village folk.
Dennis Possot, a priest on his way to the Holy Places landed in…

Belfry of St. John’s Church Larnaca

The Church of St. Lazarus, the belfry of which is the subject of this stamp is the most significant came here after his resurrection and was consecrated first bishop by the Apostles who were then here. In 890 A.D. his tomb was discovered and the…

Belfry of St. Varvara Church Kaimakli

Bellapais, Abbey of Peace, originally belonging to the Order of Premontre from France, is the finest of all Lusignan ruins in Cyprus. Its magnificent cloisters are from the 14th century and in its days of glory the Abbey must have been worthy of…

On 18th December 1965 the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 2077(xx) on Cyprus, and having recalled all the Security Council Resolutions of 1964 and 1965, and par ts of the Declaration adopted on 10th October 1964 by the Heads of…

Beograd 89th NAN Conference Logo

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…