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As a people, Cypriots are very religious. Faith is very important to the Cypriots and the Church has a distinct place in society. The name day of the Archbishop is a state holiday for the schools, while the church is energetically involved in…

As a people, Cypriots are very religious. Faith is very important to the Cypriots and the Church has a distinct place in society. The name day of the Archbishop is a state holiday for the schools, while the church is energetically involved in…

As a people, Cypriots are very religious. Faith is very important to the Cypriots and the Church has a distinct place in society. The name day of the Archbishop is a state holiday for the schools, while the church is energetically involved in…

This western style dress based on the "phoustani" (see the 1994 Cypriot Costumes set) reached Cyprus from Greece at the end of the 19th Century as a variant to the so - called "Amalia" national Greek dress. The ensemble comprises a pleated white…

A small bird flies out of Karpassia Crying slowly, crying softly Crying at noon Crying at his fate .At all its impositions. Niki Ladaki Philippou "Manoulla Kypriotissa"
(Translated by B. Mihranian)

When in 1840 Sir Rowland Hill invented the first postage stamp in the world, little did he now that stamp collecting would become a great universal hobby. In time it became known as the "King of hobbies and a hobby of Kings". King George V was an…

Loukis Akritas was one of the most distinguished intellectual personalities of 20th Century Cyprus. He was born in Morphou in 1908 into a large but poor family. He studied in Morphou and graduated from the Pancyprian Gymnasium. He wrote articles for…

The moufflon is a wild mountain sheep. Wilhelm von Boldensele undertook in 1333 a pilgrimage to the Holy Places and arrived in Cyprus from Rhodes; in his book published in 1336 he wrote: ""There are in the mountains of Cyprus wild sheep with hair…

Chalcedony is a finer- grained variety of quartz, which may vary in color from light brown to reddish brown; the latter is better known as carnelian. Moss agate is gray or bluish chalcedony with dark dentritic inclusions of ten of an iron compound.…

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