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Flag of EU and Nicosia Emblem of Venetian Walls.

The Council of Europe, which is based in Strasbourg, France, was founded by ten Western European countries on 5th May 1949. The aim was to create a region where peoples and citizens could live in dignity, where democracy and human rights where…

After the devastation brought about by the 2nd World War, visionary statesmen such as Konrad Adenauer, Winston Churchill, Alcide de Gasperi and Robert Schuman set about to persuade their people to enter a new era and a new order in Western Europe. It…

Hadjiavantis was a building contractor who undertook to build a house for the Pasha.He hired Karaghiozis, a master builder, and a number of labourers and artisans, yet the work did not progress fast enough and the Pasha was threatening Hadjiavantis…

Hadjiavantis was a building contractor who undertook to build a house for the Pasha.He hired Karaghiozis, a master builder, and a number of laborers and artisans, yet the work did not progress fast enough and the Pasha was threatening Hadjiavantis…

Hadjiavantis was a building contractor who undertook to build a house for the Pasha.He hired Karaghiozis, a master builder, and a number of labourers and artisans, yet the work did not progress fast enough and the Pasha was threatening Hadjiavantis…

Year after year they fly thousands of miles without refueling until they alight at the Larnaca salt lakehaving missed the international airport. They are our winged travellers the flamingos whose arrival during the winter season is always considered…

This Christmas set depicts frescos from the Latin Chapel of the monastery of St. John Lampadistis in the village of Kalopanayotis. These 15th Century frescos are part of a series of wall paintings in the Italo-Byzantine style illustrating the famous…

The intellectual history of Cyprus and itscontribution to the European intellectual history may be attributed to all those distinguished Cypriot poets, writers,archaeologists and men of letters from the celebrated Stassinos to Costas Montis and the…

The intellectual history of Cyprus and its contribution to the European intellectual history may be attributed to all those distinguished Cypriot poets, writers,archaeologists and men of letters from the celebrated Stassinos to Costas Montis and the…