Historical Dictionary of Cyprus

Reviewing this book brought back memories of the 1960s when the bearded and black‐robed figure of Archbishop Makarios was ever on the television news bulletins, plus British troops at RAF Akrotiri and Dhekelia, maps showing the locations of Limassol, Famagusta, Kyrenia and Paphos, and frequent mention of Colonel Grivas, enosis (union – with Greece) and EOKA, the guerrilla movement. Cyprus must be one of the most divided and fought over countries in the world, located, as it is, between Europe, Asia and Africa. The Hyksos from Egypt, Mycenaean Greeks, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Persians, Cyrus the Great and Alexander the Great, Romans,...