Join the new world

Already have an account? Login



What is this?

You are reading an article written by a citizen of eRepublik, an immersive multiplayer strategy game based on real life countries. Create your own character and help your country achieve its glory while establishing yourself as a war hero, renowned publisher or finance guru.

Cyprus

Day 2,332, 08:22 • Published in Cyprus Cyprus

• by Newdlrow

Cyprus Listeni/ˈsaɪprəs/ (Greek: Κύπρος [ˈcipros]; Turkish: Kıbrıs [ˈkɯbɾɯs]), officially the Republic of Cyprus (Greek: Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία; Turkish: Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti), is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.[6] Cyprus is the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean, and a member state of the European Union. It is located south of Turkey, west of Syria and Lebanon, northwest of Israel, north of Egypt and east of Greece.

The earliest known human activity on the island dates to around the 10th millennium BC. Archaeological remains from this period include the well-preserved Neolithic village of Khirokitia, and Cyprus is home to some of the oldest water wells in the world.[7]

The earliest known foreign settlements on the island were mainly of Phoenicians and Greeks, with Phoenician culture dominating the island's eastern and southern parts. Cyprus was settled by Mycenaean Greeks in two waves in the 2nd millennium BC, though Greek culture did not come to dominate on the island until its conquest by Alexander the Great.

Comments

Rauf Raif Denktas Day 2,332, 10:51

Alexander the Great was cypriot
ancestor of a donkey god and zeus himself

he born in besparmak daglari
he grew up in lefkara
before the age of 3 he could ride a cypriot donkey
on the age of 4 he discovered halloumi and watermelon for summer

but some legends says some that when Phoenicians settled on cyprus
georgelakeland was there before 4rth millennium BC
so he kick them out , cause they were messy

JohnEveryman Day 2,332, 12:02

yarram 🙁 history ever lies

stenleyipkis Day 2,333, 14:27

"before the age of 3 he could ride a cypriot donkey"

asidlsşsaşaşdaşdad

Kaniballos Day 2,332, 13:17

Earliest painting depicts a strange creature with mixed characteristics of an owl and a donkey.
Still exist in a kerhane Kypriosel visits in Limasol .

Isr heil Day 2,332, 13:54

cyprus is turk bro

Newdlrow Day 2,332, 14:44

yprus is a presidential republic. The head of state and of the government is elected by a process of universal suffrage for a five-year term. Executive power is exercised by the government with legislative power vested in the House of Representatives whilst the Judiciary is independent of both the executive and the legislature.

The 1960 Constitution provided for a presidential system of government with independent executive, legislative and judicial branches as well as a complex system of checks and balances including a weighted power-sharing ratio designed to protect the interests of the Turkish Cypriots. The executive was led by a Greek Cypriot president and a Turkish Cypriot vice-president elected by their respective communities for five-year terms and each possessing a right of veto over certain types of legislation and executive decisions. Legislative power rested on the House of Representatives who were also elected on the basis of separate voters' rolls.

Cyprus has been a member state of the European Union since 2004.
Since 1965, following clashes between the two communities, the Turkish Cypriot seats in the House remain vacant. Turkish Cypriots refused to establish the state of affairs before the invasion of Cyprus as is evident in the Secretary-General of the United Nations who said "The Turkish Cypriot leaders have adhered to a rigid stand against any measures which might involve having members of the two communities live and work together, or which might place Turkish Cypriots in situations where they would have to acknowledge the authority of Government agents. Indeed, since the Turkish Cypriot leadership is committed to physical and geographical separation of the communities as a political goal, it is not likely to encourage activities by Turkish Cypriots which may be interpreted as demonstrating the merits of an alternative policy.[80] By 1974 the two communities had returned to a more tolerant state of living.[80]