Worker Bees, Bee-keeping in Cyprus Thematic Issue, Republic of Cyprus

Worker Bees, Bee-keeping in Cyprus Thematic Issue, Republic of Cyprus

Postage stamps--Cyprus--History

Γραμματόσημα--Κύπρος--Ιστορία

Bee-keeping in Cyprus has a history going back many centuries and visitors today to monasteries and villages can still come across beehives which are tended by monks and village folk. Dennis Possot, a priest on his way to the Holy Places landed in Cyprus in 1533.On a visit to a village he noted that the bees were inside the houses and that on the outside of the walls were little holes where the bees went in and out; the wax and the honey were inside the houses. The Reverend Edward David Clarke who visited Cyprus in 1801 wrote: In these little cottages we found very large establishments for bees, but all the honey thus made is demanded by the Governor so that keeping these insects is only considered as the means of an additional tax. Bees have the ability to fly two to three miles to find some nectar, and it takes two million flowers to make 1lb. (453.9 grams) of honey. The bee was a Napoleonic Imperial Symbol. St. Ambrose is the patron of bee-keepers.

Cyprus Post, Republic of Cyprus

Κυπριακά Ταχυδρομεία, Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία

Cyprus Post, Republic of Cyprus

Κυπριακά Ταχυδρομεία, Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία

Library of Cyprus University of Technology

Digital Heritage Research Lab of Cyprus University of Technology

16th October 1989

Designer: S. Yiassemidis

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