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As an implication of the ethnically and nationally diverse nature of Mediterranean polities, identification-driven boundary-making strategies bear considerable relevance for their political processes, both in the contemporary context and in the historical past. By utilizing a Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA), this study provides an interpretative exploration of Greek-Cypriot elite discursive framing strategies regarding Turkish-Cypriot and Greek-Cypriot ethno-national identity during the Cypriot Civil War (1963–1967). The available historical interpretations of this period lead us to expect an exclusionary strategy of boundary contraction to be more prevalent than the inclusionary one of boundary expansion in the discourse of Greek-Cypriot elites. Through an examination of a sample of primary textual sources, the analysis disconfirms such an expectation, as elite figures primarily constructed broader, inclusive frames of ethno-national identity during the civil war. The relative absence of boundary contraction and the prevalence of boundary expansion indicate the applicability of Wimmer's (2008) universalist approach to ethnic boundary-making, in contrast to the expectations that are built by the Cyprus-specific historical evidence. This study thus lays the groundwork for future research to delineate the discursive framing strategies of elite figures in Cyprus and beyond the ethno-nationally divided island. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article contributes to an understanding of how the world outside the Global North is complicit in the visibility politics that render spaces of harm relevant or irrelevant to the reproduction of racism. Extending insights from decolonial theorising, we examine the colonial matrix that produces ongoing legacies of violence and racism through the case of Cyprus. As a peripheral location, Cyprus has been invisible to this story yet had a role in the distribution and mitigation of colonial violence through the institution of what we call lateral colonialism. Through this concept, we explore how peoples otherwise situated and outside the purview of these violences (non-colonisers and non-Blacks) were also enveloped and complicit in them. The case of Cypriots in Africa helps delineate three modalities of this involvement: governmental, entrepreneurial and religious. Lateral colonialism, we argue, is indispensable in linking decolonial possibilities to a global political agenda. The paper re-scripts Africa into Cypriot histories and Cyprus-qua-periphery into the decolonial narrative. In this double sense, lateral colonialism excavates connections that have been forgottern and obscured. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses how the Turkish historical narratives of Cyprus evolved in mutually antagonistic and constitutive ways from the 1920s to the 1970s. Based on a genealogical perspective and a thematic focus on the conquest(s) of the island, it ultimately questions how and why Islamist authors approached the island's history and in what ways they reproduced and/or challenged the official historiography and ruling ideology of the Turkish Republic. In doing so, the article attempts to contextualize the development and transformation of modern Turkish historiography, standing at the juncture of possible pasts, presents and futures, along with identity formations, ideologies and political upheavals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first part of this study is a documented outline of the activity and literary work of the Ecumenical Patriarch Germanos II [1223-1240] and of his essential role in the Orthodox recovery in the troubled age of foundation of the Latin Empire of Constantinople and of the competing Greek empires of Nicaea, Trebizond and Epirus. The second part is a discussion of the complex ecclesiastical relations between the Orthodox and Latin hierarchies and jurisdictions in the context of the religious and confessional tensions of the crusader occupation and administration of Greek Orthodox territories and populations. It focusses on the critical situation of the Greek Orthodox bishops in the Latin Kingdom of Cyprus revealed by the two important letters written for them by Patriarch Germanos II in 1223 and 1229, as well by the letter written in 1231-1232 to the Byzantine Emperor in Nicaea by Archbishop Neophytos of Cyprus. The discussion is followed by a Romanian translation of the letters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Both male and female youth were significant actors in anti‐colonial insurgencies, but their involvement has been neglected in existing historiographies due to the marginalisation of youth voices in colonial archives. This article analyses the causes of youth insurgency and colonial counterinsurgency responses in two British colonies, Kenya and Cyprus, in 1954‐59, providing a gendered and relational study of youth as cohort, as liberation generation, as life stage and as kinship position. It argues that a 'gen[d]erational' lens is necessary to properly understand how age and gender intersected to shape boys' and girls' experiences of youth insurgency, and how colonial states punished and tried to 'rehabilitate' such rebellious youths. This article argues that colonial responses to youth in insurgency were implicitly shaped by colonial understandings of gender and generation as well as by race and ethnicity, but that counterinsurgency policies failed to effectively integrate gendered and generational perspectives sufficiently into either their security, peno‐legal or welfare and developmental responses. The only successful 'rehabilitation' programmes focused on male youth, and combined colonial and local understandings of age and gender to provided pathways towards the forms of adulthood desired by youth, rather than just treating them as unthinking, impressionable or irrecoverable children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study is a documented discussion of the martyrdom of the thirteen Greek antiunionist monks from Kantara Panagiotissa Monastery, Cyprus, killed and burnt in 19 May 1231 in Nikossia by the Frankish rulers of the Latin kingdom created in 1198 by the crusaders for resisting the attempts of liturgical Latinisation of the Orthodox Cypriots by the Latin Church by publicly condemning the use of unleavened bread in the Eucharist. Their martyrdom is presented on the complex historical background of the troubled ecclesiastical relations between the Orthodox and Latin hierarchies and jurisdictions in the context of the religious and confessional tensions generated by the crusader occupation and administration of Greek Orthodox territories and populations in Middle East in general, and in Cyprus in particular, through the forced submission of the Orthodox clergy under the jurisdiction of the Latin Church. The discussion is followed by the first Romanian translation of the dossier of the martyrdom of the thirteen Cypriot monks including the Greek Diegesis surviving in two Byzantine fourteenth century manuscripts, their confession of faith, an ancient Synaxarion note, a poem written by on of the martyred monks and a short unknown contemporary Greek history of the progressive rupture of the relations between the Latins and the Eastern Orthodox up to the Latin crusader occupation of East and the dramatic martyrdom of the Cypriot monks in May 1231. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper conducts historical research on the inter-communal talks and the political life in the two communities of Cyprus from 1974 to 1983. The period covered by the research commenced with the creation of the bi-regional structure on the island in 1974 and ceased with the declaration of Turkish Cypriot Independence in 1983. As this period constitutes an important threshold in the history of Cyprus, it might be argued that observing the political developments it covers is likely to be beneficial for the literature. The research focused on the two communities’ positions in negotiations as well as their elections and political actors. It utilized Turkish, Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot newspapers (and official press releases), political leaders’ memoirs, national archives of USA (NARA) as well as official online documents. Its findings indicate that the two sides could not reach to a settlement mainly due to their disagreements on the authorities of central and regional governments. While the Turkish Cypriot side promoted broader authorities for the regional governments, the Greek Cypriot side favoured broader authorities forthe central government. On the other hand, while Turkish Cypriot leader Denktaş had managed to unite the majority of Turkish Cypriot right-wing voters, the Greek Cypriot right-wing was divided among supporters of Makarios and Clerides. On the other hand, while the Greek Cypriot left-wing was in cooperation with Makarios, the Turkish Cypriot left-wing opposed Denktaş’s policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article uses Othello as a platform for interrogating the ongoing division of Cyprus, locating in the play and its paratexts the island's forgotten African, Jewish and Gypsy heritages. This polycultural Cyprus of Othello is mutable and multiple, a nexus point in the Greater Middle East. However, the vision of Cyprus as a fluid site of difference and exchange was disavowed in the twentieth century in order to advance modern ethnonationalism – through which Cypriots are seen as either Greek or Turkish and eternally in opposition. Not only does Othello's internal conflict anticipate that of the collective Cypriot psyche but, moreover, the play as a whole hints at the various ways Cyprus was understood in England prior to modern ethnonationalism. In this way, Othello offers us the opportunity to restate the diversity of Cypriot culture and society then and now, an understanding of the island essential to any future reunification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article draws on the contents of the Turkish Cypriot Museum of Barbarism and a Greek Cypriot elementary level schoolbook to show how the image of the home, both personal and collective, can be used as an evocative framework for commemorating the conflict on Cyprus. The inherent familiarity of this image, its deep connection to our identities and its ability to evoke feelings of nostalgia and grief, hope and pain, make it a powerful trope around which memories of the many lives lost in the conflict can be constructed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the study, the effects of the history education of political powers from 1974 to the present day in Cyprus were tried to be revealed by examining the contents of the history lesson books taught at secondary schools. Qualitative research model was used in the study. In this context, the history textbooks of Cyprus (1974-2016) included in the educational literature are given based on content analysis method. The history textbooks of Cyprus used between 1974 and 2016, the subject of the work, have been renewed in correspondence with the process of change of political power in the island. The findings of the research reveal that the Cyprus textbooks published in 1974 concentrate on the political vision of the period concerned and that the students will be given "Turkishness". Despite the adoption of a different view than the books published in previous years in the Cyprus history textbooks published in 1994, they were restored to the old version. The books published in 2004 seem to be aimed at acquiring the "Cypriot Consciousness", which was adopted by the political power of the period, even though it had no significant differences in terms of content or content. However, it is understood that the 2009 printed books are aimed at gaining the ideal of "Turkism consciousness" in accordance with the opinion of the present political power. As a result, the Cypriot History textbooks published between 1974 and 2016 have some differences but they are influenced by the political ideology of the period in which all the books are in common. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of the study is to reveal the opinions of candidate history teachers studying at a private university on the course books on the History of Cyprus and to develop new recommendations. In the study, document analysis was conducted and a scanning model based on the qualitative research technique was used. The study group of the study consisted of 18 senior candidate history teachers in the 2016-2017 academic year. The data collection tool of the study was the report files of the candidate history teachers, which included the teaching on the course book, measuring-evaluation, language-narration, preparation works, visual and physical design. As a result of the analysis, it was determined that the History of Cyprus course books suffer from significant deficiencies in terms of teaching, measuring and evaluation, language and narration, and visual and physical structure. Based on the recommendations of the candidate teachers, it was concluded that the history course books should be improved based on the opinions of academicians who specialise in the field of history as well as history teachers in order to ensure success in history teaching and to transfer knowledge to future generations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A correction is presented on the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) of the article "Merchants and Mercantile Society on Late Bronze Age Cyprus" by A. Bernard Knapp and Nathan Meyer published in a July 2023 issue of the periodical.

Changes in history education in Europe are related to the new approaches in the field of education, particularly related to the usage of technology in education. Additionally, the interest in the history of war, which originated as a result of the previous world wars, has been replaced by peace education today. This study is based on the principles of peace education and is based on an eight-week educational process that was implemented in the 2016-2017 spring semester. The study sample was 11 secondary school students who were enrolled at a private school in Nicosia, Northern Cyprus. In order to collect data during the research period, student essays, the Cyprus history attitude scale and researcher observation reports were used. Qualitative data obtained in the research were evaluated using content analysis, whereas quantitative data were evaluated with the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. At the end of the study, it was determined that students expressed interest in receiving education on the history of Cyprus teaching in an environment that incorporates technology, which also reduces the necessity for memorizing details and political history, and where socio-cultural history is more prevalent. Researcher observations show that the awareness of students for peace education increased and their historical empathy and cooperative working skills were developed. However, despite such positive results, it was also discovered that there is no significant difference in quantitative terms in the attitude of students towards the history of Cyprus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores an actual and online street protest which unfolded over a series of weeks in the Spring of 2013 when Cyprus experienced an economic crisis following the 'bailout'-'haircut of March 2013. In an effort to contextualize and explore the performative aspects of these events the author links this to art and protest as an expression of alternativeness and an avant-garde spirit embodying resonances of 1960's and 1970's art and protest as performative happenings. It is argued, unlike other similar contemporary contexts of economic crisis in the EU, such as Greece, Portugal and Spain, protests in Cyprus may not have been so massively populated but the spirit of performative art was expressed in innovative ways, as documented and shared through social media as an alternative platform of expression, which ultimately fills a void that exists in the contemporary Cypriot political landscape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to investigate the politics of memory and the transformations of memories of historiographies in the Cyprus Conflict. I focus on the collective memory conceptualization that invades Cyprus Conflict, and I investigate Cyprus history textbooks from Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot education system. In this regard, the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot memories are mostly based on the historiographies, negative memories of between 1958s and 1963s and the heroic partisan struggle strongly clash with negative counter-memories of 1974. The forced remembering of 1974, the Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, which is promoted also by politically institutionalized top-down politics of memory, is created also in the popular, bottom-up memories of the today's negotiations. Such memory politics foster past narratives mostly based on historiographies, creates us and them dichotomy narratives. Moreover, it blurs the negotiation and forgiveness paradigm, when it suddenly becomes the certain point of collective memory of past and present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Little is known about the relationship between the anticolonial movement in Cyprus and the role of the Greek Cypriot press. This paper aims to fill a small gap by presenting the findings of a study dealing with the Liberation Movement of Cyprus (EOKA—the National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters) and how it was depicted through the Greek Cypriot press. The period under study is 1957-1960, during which the EOKA movement was active. This study investigates the positions of three leading Greek Cypriot newspapers of that period and aims to present the positions of each newspaper at the level of policy towards the liberation movement. Findings suggest that the Greek Cypriot press under the colonial regime presented the liberation and the ‘Enosis’ (unification) movement more in its news-articles-reports and less in opinion articles and commentaries, while journalists were reluctant to take sides. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the ‘Cyprus problem’, a protracted modern conflict over a de facto divided island in the eastern Mediterranean, seeking to explore radical potentialities. The paper examines the parameters for resolution set 40 years ago with the agreement to establish a bizonal bicommunal federation. The paper connects the global and regional factors to forces within Cyprus to the dialectic between the forces sustaining division versus those driving towards resolution. It then locates the specific ‘national question’ within a broader reading of geopolitical and social questions in our turbulent times. To appreciate the continuities and ruptures, the ‘Cyprus problem is placed within a frame connecting the old national questions in the imperialist era to current debates over ethnic divisions/conflicts, as they manifest themselves within rekindled social/economic and regional geopolitical contestations. The paper reading the potential for resolution as a transitional process connecting the internal dynamics (nationalism, class, and politics) to imperial/geopolitical ones. This reading provides the analytical lenses to appreciate the potentialities empowering social and political forces within Cyprus. In doing so that we may unlock the social imaginaries to overcome the current divide, as essential elements of vision(s) for social(ist) transformation(s). Focusing on the oldest political and the largest Left-wing force, AKEL, the paper addresses three challenges for the Left: Transcending the compartmentalization of the national question from geopolitics and the social question; enhancing the reunification and reconciliation politics; federating and reconciling from below to push for solution by expanding the ‘third space’ for an anti-nationalist counter-hegemony. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study addresses the official culture of the Republic of Cyprus as it has been promoted through the postage stamps released by the state between 1960 and 2013. The theoretical framework of this study is derived from relevant theories on the cultivation of official cultures, through visual communication, specifically postage stamps, in association with the social and political situation concerning the Republic of Cyprus. The corpus has been analysed using quantitative content analysis and the development of certain categories in relation to landmark dates for the country’s history has been studied. According to the findings, the official culture of the state has favoured topics that highlight the island’s long history and has accentuated the importance of religion as part of the official repertoire. Nonetheless, there are strong indications deriving from the analysis of the corpus that there has been a shift in the representation of the official culture since the country became a member of the EU. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article addresses the puzzling case of shifting identity constructions in northern Cyprus, from ethnic to civic–territorial in 2003 and back to ethnic in 2009. It is argued that these shifts occurred when external factors (EU and Turkey) opened/closed windows of opportunity for internal elites’ reconfigurations. It then explains societal responsiveness to these nation-building changes sustaining that, over time, a process transforming the perception of the ‘other’ took place from below and a civic–territorial identity layer (Cypriotness) developedalongthe ethnic-Turkish layer. These coexist and fluctuate depending on the given context of choice. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article examines Cyprus and Italy during the thirteenth century, focusing upon similar aesthetics presented in their art. Particular focus is given to religious depictions of icons and saints in these works. Additional topics discussed include the links between Apulia, Italy, and the Holy Land, stylistic and thematic linkages in church buildings in the regions and the works of artists including Rinaldo da Taranto.

The article assesses English literature teaching in Cyprus universities. Topics discussed include the differences between English literature British students and Cypriot students, the ways in which Cyprus' political history influences its students' reception of English literature teachings and the author's claim that there is a need for Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots to reflect on issues of difference and diversity to be able to bridge the gap between the two groups.

A schematic map of Cyprus, unique in the Byzantine world, is found in two Greek manuscripts of the mid-fourteenth century (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS A 95 sup.) and its copy (Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, MS gr. XI.21 (coll. 453)). The article examines the context of its creation, possibly by the physician who collected the medical texts copied in the manuscripts. The map testifies to the perception of a man who is able to sketch the shape of the littoral freehand. He exaggerates the bays and headlands, and notes almost exclusively localities on the coast; inland, only Nicosia, the capital of the island, is shown. In particular, two religious monuments, considered the oldest and most visited on the island (the Basilica of St Epiphanius in Salamis and the Monastery of the Holy Cross–Stavrovouni) are marked, indicating that the author also wanted to celebrate the Christian antiquity of Cyprus and its relics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates the case of the end of marriage in Ottoman Cyprus based on 17th century judicial records. The end of marriage is one of the most elaborate and important discussions in Islamic family law. Therefore, to determine how it was put into practice at various times and places is crucial for the history of Islamic law. After the Ottomans conquered the Island in 1571, Islamic-Ottoman law entered into effect in Cyprus. Hence, shedding light on the case of the end of marriage will make a significant contribution to clarify the history of Cyprus as well. The Kadi registers, which serve as collective memory of the Muslim and non-Muslim peoples of Cyprus, had been carefully recorded in the Ottoman period and a significant part of them have reached us today. From this point forth, all of the relevant documents found in the 17th century Kadi Registers are examined based upon the Hanafi school of law, which constituted the positive law of the period. In addition to this, the points related to the historical aspect of the case are circumstantially discussed and clarified in the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper considers the performance of archaeology in the field. To do so it examines the notebooks recording the British Museum excavations in Cyprus during the period 1893–1896. Archaeologists have described the practices of writing and drawing as a performance that accords archaeology its disciplinary identity. However, there have not been systematic studies of the centrality of fieldwork in the disciplinary culture of nineteenth-century archaeology as there have been for other field sciences. Histories and geographies of science have shown that field knowledge was produced through a variety of spatial practices – including inscriptive practices – whose meaning, processes and intentions were embodied in the material artefacts of science, such as instruments and notebooks. Drawing on that work, this paper locates the British Museum notebooks as material objects of science in the disciplinary landscape of late nineteenth-century Cypriot archaeology and in British classical archaeology more broadly. In doing so, this paper furthers our understanding of how classical archaeology became established as a field-based scientific discipline in the later nineteenth century. This paper argues that the British Museum notebooks functioned as paper tools in the field: they constructed a new interpretative model of the ancient Cypriot artefacts that placed the island within the prehistoric Greek world. This archaeological model was established through the more accurate, schematic, abstracted and numerical syntax of the notebooks. Importantly, the British Museum archaeologists through the use of the notebooks as paper tools created a new entity, the excavated Cypriot artefact, that was firmly associated with the conditions of its discovery and evaluation processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The final years of British rule in Cyprus were marked by the colonial government’s use of authoritarian measures to impose control over the local press. The most problematic publication during the 1955–60 period was the Times of Cyprus, an English-language newspaper edited and owned by experienced British journalist Charles Foley. This article examines the fraught relationship between Foley’s newspaper and the colonial government against a backdrop of social instability and political violence. In particular, it focuses on the role the newspaper played as a conduit of information between Cyprus and Britain, conveying the experience of colonial rule to influential readers in London and reporting British support for self-determination to a Cypriot reading public. This ability to undermine official control over the flow of intelligence between the colonial periphery and its metropolitan centre unsettled the British administration, leading to repeated but ultimately unsuccessful efforts to proscribe the newspaper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An analytic approach of the numerous but poorly documented Hellenistic and Roman necropoleis of Cyprus, excavated or simply spotted through the years, is presented in this paper. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) were used so as to better understand the lost landscape of the Hellenistic and Roman necropoleis. GIS were applied to visualize, rationalize, and analyze the vast quantity of material, starting from the simple site location of the known Hellenistic and Roman cemeteries, proceeding with an analytic approach of the available scarce information, to reveal eventually specific spatial patterns. Initially, indexing, registration, topographic documentation, and mapping linked with all the necessary information of the known necropoleis were accomplished. In addition, spatial analysis considering environmental and other parameters in GIS was carried out in a macroscale perspective. The above analysis resulted notable aspects related to the lost funerary landscape of ancient Cyprus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By the late 1800s British colonial rule in Cyprus was experiencing both a socioeconomic and a legitimacy crisis. Britain's development projects were intended to quell the crisis and consolidate colonial authority. Famagusta Harbour construction was an integral part of that programme, but it antagonised wealthy and influential Cypriots in Larnaca. They believed that such infrastructure would undermine the importance of Larnaca harbour and threaten their commercial and political interests. Their protests threatened the colonial administration with a new crisis that was averted by the integration of Larnaca's Harbour into British plans. The colonial regime had to negotiate and co-operate with local networks of power in order to realise its development programme: harbour development was no mere rational engineering exercise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores how mules were procured in Cyprus for the Salonica campaign and how they were treated by Cypriot muleteers in the British army in Macedonia. Cyprus provides an ideal case since over 6,000 mules were recruited for the Salonica campaign, presenting a sizeable sample for analysis of recruitment strategies and practices. Equally, since over 12,000 Cypriot muleteers served in the British army in Salonica and later in Istanbul during and after the Great War (from July 1916 to April 1920), the focus on the treatment of mules by Cypriot muleteers offers a significant sample. This article contributes to the growing historiography on the role of equines and their treatment and condition in the Great War. It argues that Cypriot mules were procured in significant numbers and became important to British supply and logistics in Salonica. Cypriot muleteers treated their mules relatively well, and therefore mules in Salonica, although overworked, were generally in reasonable condition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The presence of Jews on Cyprus during Ptolemaic and Roman rule, although attested by diverse historical sources, has not been convincingly identified archaeologically. However, the pottery style named Cypriot Sigillata A, may provide oblique evidence of the Jewish Diaspora on Cyprus, or at least its end. This paper will propose a causal relationship between two seemingly unrelated facts: the historically attested destruction of the Jewish Community 115–117 CE during the Diaspora Revolt; and, the sudden disappearance of Cypriot Sigillata A from the archaeological record by 150 CE. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In antiquity, the Sanctuary of Aphrodite Paphia at Palaipaphos was Cyprus' most celebrated religious space. The high number of Hellenistic and Roman inscriptions discovered at the sanctuary reveals that it was an important environment for the celebration of the island's rulers, high profile visitors, and its local elite. While the accompanying statues of these inscriptions, or the structures that they may have been fixed to, do not survive, their texts point to the visually impressive character of the sanctuary. This article will present new readings of two inscriptions discovered at this sanctuary which commemorate the poet Lucius Septimius Nestor of Laranda and a certain Sergia Aurelia Regina. The relationship between poet and benefactress, as it appears from the two inscriptions, is to be placed beyond doubt in the framework of female euergetism in the Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire, during the second to third centuries AD. This study will reconsider the musical pun occurring in an inscription set up by Regina to honour Nestor as it sheds some new light on the nature of this relationship and may account for some puzzling features of the inscription, such as the self-celebrating tone in which Regina speaks of herself and the title of hypatē (hardly a substitute for the expected hypatikē) with which she credits herself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The bi-communal Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CYBC) casts its shadow to an important period of Cyprus’s modern history. Almost immediately after the establishment of the new republic, the two communities (the Greek and the Turkish-Cypriot) focused their attention towards media services and particularly the CYBC on which both sides tried to impose their own agendas. As expected, the two conflicting agendas and approaches disrupted, in practise, the smooth cooperation between the two communities in CYBC. Almost 50 years since the failure of this bi-communal endeavour, CYBC’s case study offers us a fundamental lesson. Firstly, it is clear that for such an endeavour, a constructive and focused dialog amongst all parts involved in the process is required. Additionally, CYBC’s short history demonstrates that in a multicultural environment the establishment of a public broadcasting corporation is not a purely technical or political matter, but one with broader social and cultural dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Cyprus holds an important geographical position in the eastern Mediterranean. During the Ottoman period (1571-1878), there were five ports in Cyprus that played a key role, not only in the history of Cyprus during this period but also in the Ottoman Empire as a whole. During the French invasion of Egypt (1798-1801), the ports of Cyprus were used to supply both the Ottoman army and the armies of its allies, England and Russia. The ports of Cyprus also regularly facilitated communications between the capital and the theater of war, which was distant from the capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A literary criticism of the book "Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean" by Molly Greene is presented. It outlines the characters and explores the symbolic significance of these characters. It examines condition of the Mediterranean region after the end of Cyprus war in 16th century. An overview of the story is also given.

The article presents a report from a June 16, 2014 conference in Vienna, Austria on the history of Cyprus from 1974 to 2014. Topics of presentations delivered included the history of concflict between Cypriots and the British government, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, and the development and importance of political and religious societies as ethnic identifiers in Cyprus.

The article presents a report from a June 18-20, 2015 conference on cultural aspects of death and dying in the Mediterranean region hosted by the center for Mediterranean studies at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum university. Topics of presentations delivered included fear in the relationships between ancient Egyptians and the river and sea, the burial practices of ethnic minorities in ancient Athens, Greece and Miletus, Turkey, and cultural conflict surrounding burial places on Cyprus after its 1974 division.

The article focuses on the governance in education in Cyprus namely the elementary education. It discusses the evaluation of the local education in 1913 by the colonial government, educational mission of evaluating its education system between 2013 and 2014 by the World Bank, and its suggestions for improvement. It looks at the suggested changes in the ministry, and teacher policy framework.

The site of Akanthou- Arkosykos, also known as Tatlısu- Çiftlikdüzü, (henceforth Akanthou) located on the north coast of Cyprus, been dated to Early Aceramic Neolithic or Cypro-PPNB/MPPNB 8200-7700 BC. It has been revealed as one of the most important early Aceramic Neolithic sites on Cyprus. Rescue excavations since 2000 were undertaken to assess the site and protect it from agricultural damage and threats from construction. The site is now a scheduled monument protected under the Antiquities law. Despite plough and other agricultural damage there is excellent preservation. The excavations have revealed six buildings of stone and mud brick architecture with round and rectilinear features and painted plastered walls and plaster floors. These are enclosed by a wide ditch to the south of the settlement. This feature contains hundreds of individual deposits reflecting the life of a sedentary community and evidence for human exploitation of marine life, domesticated plants and a variety of domestic and semi-domesticated animals. Obsidian finds numbering in excess of 4000 pieces represents the highest number of such finds from Cyprus so far. They have been demonstrated to be of central Anatolian origin and appear to have come to the site as finished products. Akanthou is 40 miles across the sea from the Anatolian mainland and is possibly a key-site that can answer questions regarding the origin of early settlers as well as early domestication and trade in Cyprus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The problem of Cyprus has been analyzed deeply from variety of local, regional and international perspectives. This is because the Cyprus conflict it is an historical important issue within the international agenda, it has been and will remain as such till the counter parts will find a common interest or a common solution (a substantial way out). As much as the reader hinters within the tremendous great number of books and articles written for the Cyprus case it realizes that there are many perspectives and historical issue that have to be revealed and understood in order to analyze the today's political circumstances in Cyprus and why not in the world as well. In this paper I will try to elaborate the historical, political and institutional conditions of Cyprus during the period of the Ottoman and British establishments. Even though Cyprus has been managed or governed from many important historical powers, I will independently say that the most important are the Ottomans and British periods. This is to be said, because for the both periods we have a great number of written historical and important local, regional and international events recorded and scientifically analyzed. The time frame of their leadership and governmental infrastructures played enormously for their importance. Both of them consciously or un consciously left behind an important cultural and political legacy that today Cyprus differs from other regions and places in the world. As I said before I will shortly try to elaborate as well the social and institutional background of both establishments and to see to what extent they have tried to build stability and sustainability of the island and the region as whole. This work of mine will give a small perspective for the readers about the substantial political and social conditions during this two very important periods of the Cyprus history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Kittim in Dan 11,30 means Cyprus and not »Rome« or »Romans« as some ancient interpretations and many modern commentators have understood it. Dan 11,30 is a valuable historical witness to the important role of Cyprus in the Sixth Syrian War. The verse's connection to Roman actions in 168 B.C.E. enabled later interpreters to find the historical reality of their time in the ancient prophecy. Zusammenfassung: Das Wort Kittim in Dan 11,30 bedeutet »Zypern« und nicht »Rom« oder »Römer«, wie es einige antike und viele moderne Kommentatoren aufgefasst haben. Dan 11,30 ist ein wertvoller historischer Zeuge für die bedeutende Rolle Zyperns im sechsten syrischen Krieg. Den Vers mit römischen Aktivitäten im Jahre 168 v. Chr. in Verbindung zu bringen, ermöglichte es späteren Interpretatoren, die historische Realität ihrer Zeit in der alten Prophezeiung wiederzufinden. Résumé: En Dn 11,30, Kittim signifie Chypre et non »Rome« ou »Romains« comme certaines anciennes interprétations et beaucoup de commentateurs modernes l'ont compris. Dn 11,30 est un témoignage historique précieux sur l'importance du rôle de Chypre dans la sixième guerre syrienne. Les liens qu'a ce verset aux actions romaines en 168 av. J.-C. ont permis à des interprètes plus tardifs de trouver la réalité historique de leur temps dans les prophéties anciennes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Metallurgical production sites are often difficult to identify in the archaeological record because ore beneficiation and slag processing in the past involved the use of ground stone tools that were similar to those used in other contexts to prepare cereals and foods. Analysis of the ground stone assemblage from a Middle Bronze Age copper mining and production site at Ambelikou Aletri in Cyprus provided an opportunity to distinguish industrial and domestic ground stone tools and to identify the types of tools used in different stages of metal production. A comparison of tool morphologies, raw materials, and wear and breakage patterns from Ambelikou Aletri with those from contemporary domestic contexts, suggests that distinctions in the nature and structure of industrial and domestic tool kits do exist and those distinctions have an important role to play in identifying mining, smelting, and casting sites in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The island of Cyprus is well known for its abundance of masks, which have been the subject of focused studies as well as broader investigations on Phoenician and Punic masks. Yet, there is no comprehensive and diachronic overview of this important corpus contextualized within its Cypriot setting. This article reevaluates the evidence for masking rituals in Late Bronze and Iron Age Cyprus through close analysis of archaeological contexts and use patterns to reconstruct masked performances. The evidence underscores the long tradition of masking on the island and reveals use patterns that allow a partial reconstruction of the social significance of masking ceremonies. At the end of the Bronze Age through the era of the autonomous city-kingdoms, masks likely functioned as symbolic objects used in constructing social identities and can be associated with restricted groups practicing rituals at key sanctuaries. Masking rituals flourished within the autonomous city-kingdoms and dramatically ended with the incorporation of Cyprus into the Ptolemaic kingdom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article has as a purpose to inform researchers as well as teachers for the educational system of Cyprus. More specifically, this paper aims to give a brief description of Cyprus' history and to inform about the structure of the Cyprus education system, emphasizing in primary education, the main characteristics of Cyprus education system, the Cypriot National Curriculum today and the teacher qualification in Cyprus. The current socio-political context in Cyprus is now quite different from that which prevailed in the 1980s and in the 1990s. Cyprus has become a member of the European Union, so many changes have occurred at the educational system of Cyprus. The Cyprus Education system is currently under reformation in every aspect of education making difficult to find and collect all the relevant information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on Salamis-Constantia, the political and ecclesiastical capital of the island of Cyprus, from the 360s to the tenth century, marking the passage from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages. The aim here is to debunk the historiographical model proposed for interpreting the declining fortunes of Cypriot urban sites, while at the same time applying the category of transition in order to explain the changes experienced in the local economic life, material culture and socio-political structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Middle Ages have their great love stories. We owe one of them to Peter I Lusignan, King of Cyprus. Married to Eleanor of Aragon, who bore him a son and a successor, he had a mistress pregnant with his child. The queen decided to eliminate this rival by inducing a premature delivery. The incident was recorded by Leontios Makhairas, a Cypriot chronicler, who described the cruelty of Eleanor and mourned the fate of the baby. But it is not his account which keeps this tragedy alive in Cyprus even today. There is a folk song about beautiful Arodaphnousa, who suffered because of the bad queen. The song is deprived of historical context, but it is a historical source nevertheless. Its remote counterpart is the Catalan story of Eleanor, who was expelled from Cyprus and lived in Aragon for a long time. This story creates an image of a benign, calm lady who was venerated after death by her subjects. The clash between these images makes one think about the black and white PR created in every epoch. But this is not the point of this story. The point is the fate of an innocent child, both the flower and the victim of love. This is a rare motif in medieval literature; children are seldom present on the pages of its manuscripts. The emotion connected with this story deserves the reader's attention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]