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The best-known and richest monastery of Cyprus, Kykkos Monastery was founded in 1100 and dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It possesses one of three surviving icons ascribed to Saint Luke. It is covered in silver gilt, enclosed in a shrine of tortoise…

General view of the vault of the north Aisle of the Katholikon , with the Stanzas Θ , Ι, Κ, Λ depicted. Τhe vault of the north aisle is decorated with the 24 Stanzas of the Akathist hymn to the Virgin. Every Stanza starts with a letter of the…

General view of the Vault of the North Aisle of the Katholikon, with the Stanzas Σ, Τ, Υ, Φ, depicted. Τhe vault of the north aisle of the Katholikon is decorated with the 24 Stanzas of the Akathist hymn to the Virgin. Every Stanza starts…

General view of the vault of the north Aisle of the Katholikon with the Stanzas Χ, Ψ, Ω depicted . Τhe vault of the north aisle of the Katholikon is decorated with the 24 Stanzas of the Akathist hymn to the Virgin. Every Stanza starts with a…

Γεωμετρικός Αμφορέας που βρέθηκε σε τάφο στην περιοχή "Σγαφτό" (1050-950π.Χ.).

George Philippou Pierides at the Famagusta Municipal Library.

George Washington was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia on February 22nd 1732. During the War of Independence he was Commanderin- Chief of the Continental Army and from 1787 to 1788 he was Chair man of the Constitutional Convention. In 1789 he…

He fought in the First World War (1914-1918).

He was killed by the Turkish troops in 1974.

They fought in the Second World War (1939-1945).