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Kopiaste - Welcome to Cyprus - If you like sweet potatoes, you'll love kolokasi . This root vegetable ( Colocasia esculanta ) is a specialty of Cyprus. How about eliopitta , lountza , kefalotiri , kaskavali , sfyrida , or loukoumades ? You'll have to visit this Web page, or any outdoor market on Cyprus, to find out about these other delicious foods! If you're eating vasilopitta , it must be New Year's Day. The Cyprus food calendar is lots of fun, as you find out which special foods are associated with different celebrations throughout the year. After sampling some of the taste treats of Cyprus, be sure to tour the collection of over 200 photos included here. You can really see why people love to visit this unique island.
The Cyprus Home Page - The small island of Cyprus, located in the northeast corner of the Mediterranean Sea, is a place rich in Greek heritage, legend, and fabulous weather. It is estimated that the people of Cyprus enjoy 300 sunny days each year! But the ongoing political tension between the Greek-Cypriots (well over three-quarters of the island's population) and the Turkish-Cypriots is a conflict that continues to plague the island. Since the Turkish invasion of July 1974, the northern 37 percent of the Cypriot Republic's territory has been under Turkish military occupation. Learn about present-day Cyprus from the maps, country profiles, and chronology of events, then step back into the history of this country at the crossroads of Europe and the Middle East. See the ancient Greek temples where Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, was worshipped. You'll find songs, folk art, lots of color pictures of Cyprus, and interesting facts and folklore about the birds of Cyprus, too. You might also want to click on "Kypros-Net" for more information and links.
The Republic of Cyprus - Before Alexander the Great, before the Iliad and the Oddesy, even before the Bronze Age when the best tools were made of stone, there was the island of Cyprus. Excavations have discovered remains of lentils, peas, goats, and pigs. The average life expectancy was short--about 34 years. Through the ages, this small island has played many roles in the development of the Mediterranean region. In addition to many pages about Cyprus' history, you'll find many pages on geography, descriptions of towns and cities, and culture, as well as current news and issues.
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