26 Oct 2021
Did You Know? The legend of Melusine
Many centuries ago there lived in Poitiers in France, a prince named Raymond de Lusignan. He was very good looking …
20 Oct 2021
Did You Know? The Prayer Rug
The prayer rug, or mat, is a piece of woven fabric, used by Moslems and Arab Christians during prayer.
14 Oct 2021
Did You Know? Peter Thomas (1305–1366) (also Petrus de Thomas) was a Carmelite monk born in Perigot.
He came from a very poor family and on his own saw himself through school. He entered the Carmelite Order …
08 Oct 2021
Did You Know? The road from Nicosia to Kyrenia has inspired practically every foreign traveller to Cyprus.
The road from Nicosia to Kyrenia has inspired practically every foreign traveller to Cyprus. They all wrote of the beauty …
28 Sep 2021
Did You Know? Katirçi Yianni - In the 1850s, in the suburbs of Smyrna, loomed a gang of robbers whose leader was Katirçi Yianni.
24 Sep 2021
Did You Know? Austen Harrison - Harrison was born in Kent in 1891, a descendant of the famous novelist Jane Austen.
17 Sep 2021
Did You Know? The Cotton Flux Community - The Linobambaki or Linovamvaki were a Crypto-Christian community in Cyprus, predominantly of Catholic and Greek-Orthodox descent who turned to Islam during Ottoman rule.
13 Sep 2021
Did You Know? Music inspired by Cyprus - Although a small island, Cyprus’s history, especially of antiquity and medieval period, inspired many composers to create wonderful music about heroes, queens and goddesses of Cyprus.
07 Sep 2021
Did You Know? Flamingos - The national bird of Bermudas, the flamingos, visit Cyprus between November and March.
30 Aug 2021
Did You Know? A dowry chest, cedar chest, or trousseau chest, is a piece of furniture traditionally used by unmarried young women to collect items for their dowry.
28 Aug 2021
Did You Know? Hermann Solomon Corrodi (1844-1905) came to Cyprus during his trip to Egypt in 1877. He used to make sketches of his paintings and then work on them when back in Rome.
25 Aug 2021
Did You Know? The trading business 'Horniman's Tea Company' was founded in 1826 in Newport, Isle of Wight, by trader John Horniman.
23 Aug 2021
Did You Know? A brazier is a container in which burning coal is used for cooking, heating or cultural rituals. It is often an elaborate metal container with decorations standing on a foot.
15 Aug 2021
Did You Know? Hubble bubble, hookah, shisha, nargileh, ghalyan, all these words refer today to the well-known smoking devise for heating or vapourising, and then smoking, tobacco.
Hubble bubble, hookah, shisha, nargileh, ghalyan, all these words refer today to the well-known smoking devise for heating or vapourising, …
03 Aug 2021
Did You Know? During the end of the nineteenth century, England and France were competing as to who would take the most from the fast disintegrating Ottoman Empire.
During the end of the nineteenth century, England and France were competing as to who would take the most from …
23 Jul 2021
Did You Know? The Pedieos River
The Pedieos is the longest river in Cyprus, flowing from the Troodos mountains close to Macheras monastery across the Mesaoria …
16 Jul 2021
Did You Know? Gladys Emma Peto (1890-1977) came to Cyprus from Malta in 1926
06 Jul 2021
Did You Know? Cyprus is full of spirits that talk of its history and culture
Cyprus is full of spirits that talk of its history and culture
02 Jul 2021
Did You Know? A Network of Proclivities
Christopher Hurst published in 1977 The View from King Street: An essay in Autobiography.
28 Jun 2021
Did You Know? The Katirci
The village of Atnienou was always associated with muleteers and camel drivers. The village is supposed to have taken its …
21 Jun 2021
Did You Know? Tulipa Cypria
The genus Tulipa belongs to the family of Liliaceae that comprises about 100 species of plants that originate in Europe, …
14 Jun 2021
Did You Know? Messageries Maritimes
Messageries Maritimes was a French merchant shipping company. Small paddle steamers, owned by M. Rostand, used to sail within the …
07 Jun 2021
Did You Know? The descendants of Aphrodite
It comes as a surprise to members of a small and rather conventional society to be told that in old …
04 Jun 2021
Did You Know? The Baffa Diamonds
Arriving in Paphos, in 1589, Seigneur de Villamont, Chevalier of the Order of Jerusalem made the following observation: … it …