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Grey Trigger Fish

The European Cup Championships for women athletics first took place in 1982 having been conceived by Dr. Paolo Fumante of Italy. Cyprus hosted the 1 3 th such meeting in Limassol where around 500 athletes from European countries took part. The stamp…

Waterskiing

80th Anniversary of the Birth of Archbishop Makarios III

Since its establishment the Department of Maritime Shipping has been strengthened by a pool of highly educated professionals and other personnel thus enabling it to open offices in Piraeus, Rotterdam, Hamburg, London and New York for more efficient…

Funerary Stele - Marion (5th Century B.C.)

In the square of the Archbishopric, Archbishop Kyprianos founded a school in 1812, which he dedicated to the Holy Virgin. The first high school on the island, the Pancyprian Gymnasium was founded there in 1893. The gymnasium, which still operates…

George Seferiades (1900-1971) who was better known as George Seferis was the most distinguished Greek poet of the 1930 s. A poet and a diplomat he wrote lyrical poetry and the Mythistorema in 1953. He served as Greece’s ambassador to Lebanon…

Jug (15th Century B.C.)

Virgin Mary