In the period after the Cyprus War of 1570-71, during which the Ottomans invaded and
conquered Venetian-ruled Cyprus, many Cypriots chose to leave the island. Most chose to …

Traditional historiography has claimed that, from 1897 to 1922, Greek Cypriots served in
droves in the Greek army, thus exhibiting their loyalty to their alleged motherland. But the …

The role played by British colonial possessions during the Great War is only now starting to
emerge in the last decade or so. This article aims to include Cyprus amongst those …

This paper aims to assess the political and cultural status of the island of Cyprus as the only
place within the Mediterranean where Christian heirs of Romans and Muslims shared the …

Abstract The Greek War of Independence holds a very important place in the script of the
imagined Greek nation in Cyprus and for Greek Cypriot nationalism. This revolves around …

When, on 18 February 1451, Sultan Meḥmed II succeeded his father Murād II to the
Ottoman throne, the Lusignan kingdom of Cyprus was already deeply involved in a political …

Research on early medieval Cyprus has focused on the late antique" golden age"(late
fourth/early fifth to seventh century) and the so-called Byzantine" Reconquista"(post-AD 965) …

Among the vectors of cultural interaction, mercenary activities are particularly well
documented in the ancient Mediterranean. Epigraphic evidence concerns Cypriot …

Histories of Cyprus Page 1 Histories of Cyprus The Disputed Years of Ottoman Rule, 1571–1878
Jan-Erik Smilden Master thesis in history Department of Archaeology, Conservation and …

dissertation that draws on a variety of Venetian and Ottoman visual, architectural, narrative
and poetic sources to shed light on how groups and individuals in these two imperial polities …