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Emigrant Cypriots Year

This stamp depicts Leda and the Swan from a floor mosaic from the House of Dionysus, Palaeopaphos (Kouklia), 3rd century A.D. In Greek mythology there are various versions Zeus companies in the form of a swan, beside the river Eurotas, that she laid…

The European Postal and Telecommunication Organization specified "Musicians and Composers" as the theme for the Europa issue of 1985. The main traditional musical instruments in Cyprus were and still are the violin, the lute and the flute, which…

The European Postal and Telecommunication Organization specified "Musicians and Composers" as the theme for the Europa issue of 1985. Accordingly, the 6 cents illustrates clay idols of musicians from 7th/6th centuries B.C. playing the lyre, the flute…

Ivory Plaque (Salamis 7th Century B.C.)

This fresco shows the Virgin Mary approaching the devout Symeon with Christ presentation of Christ. She is followed by Joseph holding two doves in his hands as an offering to the Temple. Behind Symeon on the right, the prophetess Anna utters through…

Merchant Shipping in Cyprus existed since 1963 with its headquarters at the port of Famagusta where Cyprus ships were registered. After the Turkish invasion of 1974, Famagusta port and all other ports in the occupied part of the island were closed…

Nativity Scene (St. John Monastery Lampadistis)

Many harbors resemble embraces, but Kyrenia’s above all; the tightest, the warmest and the sweetest. I will never forget the small harbor of Kyrenia… The only thing I could do on learning of the destruction that came about was to say and to…

Virgin Mary and Elizabeth (St. John Monastery Lampadistis)