26 Eki 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 …

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20 Eki 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.

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14 Eki 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 …

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08 Eki 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 …

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28 Eyl 2021

Did You Know? Katirçi Yianni - In the 1850s, in the suburbs of Smyrna, loomed a gang of robbers whose leader was Katirçi Yianni.

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24 Eyl 2021

Did You Know? Austen Harrison - Harrison was born in Kent in 1891, a descendant of the famous novelist Jane Austen.

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17 Eyl 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.

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13 Eyl 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.

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07 Eyl 2021

Did You Know? Flamingos - The national bird of Bermudas, the flamingos, visit Cyprus between November and March.

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30 Ağu 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.

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28 Ağu 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.

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25 Ağu 2021

Did You Know? The trading business 'Horniman's Tea Company' was founded in 1826 in Newport, Isle of Wight, by trader John Horniman.

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23 Ağu 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.

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15 Ağu 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, …

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03 Ağu 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 …

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23 Tem 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 …

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16 Tem 2021

Did You Know? Gladys Emma Peto (1890-1977) came to Cyprus from Malta in 1926

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06 Tem 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

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02 Tem 2021

Did You Know? A Network of Proclivities

Christopher Hurst published in 1977 The View from King Street: An essay in Autobiography.

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28 Haz 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 …

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21 Haz 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, …

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14 Haz 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 …

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07 Haz 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 …

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04 Haz 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 …

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