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Costas Montis was born in Ammochostos in 1914. He studied law at the University of Athens but never practiced as a lawyer. He had a varied career as a teacher, poet, journalist, editor and as Director of Tourism from 1960 to 1976 when he…

Persefoni Papadopoulou
She was born in Ktima, Paphos, in 1888 and died in Patra, in Pelloponisos in 1949. She graduated from the Arsakeio school in Athens with excellence and immediately started work as a teacher in Famagusta and then in Larnaca as…

Demeter, Goddess of Corn

Demetrios Lipertis (1866-1937)

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The scene of the Annunciation of the Birth of Christ to the shepherds by an angel, forms part of the icon (seen in full in the miniature sheet) from the Monastery of Chrysorroyiatissa (golden pomegranate), which was founded in 1152 by a hermit called…

Here we have a view of the Dhiarizos river meaning two roots, which flows for 26 miles from the Troodos mountains through the picturesque valleys of the Paphos district reaching its estuary in the Kouklia area of Paleopaphos. The government with its…

In this stamp the designer portrays to us the struggle between Dighenis and Charon from the poem of the same name. Above them both is a golden bird. The legend is that God sent Charon to take the soul of Dighenis. When Dighenis and Charon met they…

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…