Total: 7 results found.

1. Golden Beach / Karpas
(Historical Places)
...  with intricate mosaics; conglomerations of timeworn churches; rural traditional Cypriot villages whose inhabitants pursue a way of life now as they have done for the past few hundred years. Here in a ...
2. St Barnabas' Monastery and Icon Museum/ Famagusta
(Historical Places)
... f to Constantinople (now Istanbul) to present the bible to the Byzantine emperor, Zeno. Delighted by this gift, the emperor granted autonomy (independence) to the church in Cyprus. To this day, Cypriot bisho ...
3. Varosha / Famagusta
(Historical Places)
...  and in particular the suburb of Varosha had become the number one (almost the only) tourist destination on the island. In 1974 Turkish Cypriots from the surrounding areas had sought refuge inside th ...
4. St Hilarion Castle / Kyrenia
(Historical Places)
...  St Hilarion and her two sister castles. Although the Venetians considered the castle obsolete, it came to prominence again in 1964, when the beleaguered Turkish Cypriots used it as the headquarters o ...
5. Blue House / Guzelyurt
(Historical Places)
... man who tended to build his houses in remote areas to ensure his privacy.  Having fled what became a Turkish Cypriot area to the Greek Cypriot area of Morphou (Guzelyurt), he built the Blue House in ...
6. Museum of Barbarism / Nicosia
(Historical Places)
On the 24th December, Greek Cypriot irregulars forcibly entered the house of Dr Ilhan, who was a Major in the Turkish army, and was on duty that night. The Doctor's wife, three children and a neighbou ...
7. North Cyprus Guide
(North Cyprus)
... states. On the North is the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and on the South is the Greek Cypriot Administration. Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean. Smaller than Sicily and ...
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