Cypriot Costumes as Seen by Women Travellers During the First Decades of British Rule: Impressions and Reality
| Autor: | Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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| Zdroj: | Folk Life - Journal of Ethnological Studies. 44:48-62 |
| ISSN: | 1759-670X 0430-8778 |
| DOI: | 10.1179/043087705798236740 |
| Popis: | Cyprus, with an area of 9,250 square kilometres, is the third largest island in the Mediterranean after Sicily and Sardinia. The wealth of the island and its privileged geographical position on the threshold between the Orient and the Occident made it a bone of contention between the great powers of the East Mediterranean in antiquity: the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Persians, who in turn became its masters. When Alexander the Great liberated the island from the Persians, Cyprus became part of the empire of the Ptolemies of Egypt, later, in 58 B.C., the island came under the dominion of the Romans and in 330 A.D. it was to become a province of the Byzantine Empire. Later again, Cyprus was conquered by the Lusignans (1191), the Venetians (1489) and the Ottomans (1571). The three centuries of Ottoman rule came to an end in 1878 when the administration of the island was passed over to Britain. In 1960 Cyprus became independent and was proclaimed a Republic. |
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