Answer: Aphrodite
Legend says that Aphrodite's Rock, a few miles east of Paphos, is where the goddess of love rose from the waves. This beautiful spot is probably the most photographed site in Cyprus and the rocks are especially stunning with the sunset behind them.
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Answer: Ledra
The principal shopping street in the city is still called Ledra Street.
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Answer: Mediterranean Sea
Cyprus is actually situated in the north-eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea.
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Answer: Nicosia
Nicosia is the last divided capital in Europe now that the walls are down in Berlin and Belfast.
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Answer: Richard I
On his way to the Third Crusade, Richard I married Berengaria of Navarre at Limassol on 12 May 1191. Berengaria went to the Holy Land with him but then returned to Europe. After Richard's death she lived in poverty in France until her death in 1230. She was the only Queen of England never to set foot on English soil.
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Answer: Lefkara
It has now become a popular tourist attraction because of this.
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Answer: Limassol
Larnaca is the island's second largest commercial port.
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Answer: Lefkosia
The name comes from the Lefkon trees in the city.
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Answer: Turkey
Turkey lies a mere 75 km (47 mi) to the north of Cyprus. Greece, which controlled the country during the Bronze Age, is a more distant 280 km (174 mi) away to the northwest. To the east, Syria and Lebanon are each about 100 km (60 mi) away, and the distance to Israel is roughly 200 km (120 mi).
It is not surprising that the island of Cyprus has been seen as a valuable possession. Originally part of the Hittite Empire, it was the site of extensive settlement by Greek traders around 1400 BCE, and by Phoenicians (on the southern coast) around 800 BCE. Subsequently it came under the control of Assyria, Egypt, and Persia before coming under Greek control during the time of Alexander the Great. This lasted until 58 BCE, when the Roman Republic annexed the island. Around 400 CE the Roman Empire (as it had become) divided into two parts, and Cyprus remained with the eastern part, the Byzantine Empire. During the Third Crusade, Richard I of England captured Cyprus in 1191 CE; it subsequently was passed around a bit until the Ottoman Empire conquered it in 1570. Cyprus was leased to Great Britain in 1878, who took full control during World War I. Despite several attempts during the 20th century to join Greece (resisted by the sizable Turkish Cypriot population), Cyprus became independent in 1960. Tensions between Turkish and Greek communities continued to pose problems, and at the start of the 21st century there remained a part of the island which considered itself to be a separate nation.
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Answer: 2004
The entire island entered the EU on 1 May 2004, although at this time the EU rights and obligations applied only to the areas under direct Republic of Cyprus control and not to the area administered by Turkish Cypriots.
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Answer: Greek Orthodox
They are mostly Greek Orthodox in the south and all Greek Cypriot children are brought up strongly in the Church.
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Answer: 9251
9251 square kilometres, of which 1733 are forested.
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Answer: Green Line
So-called because it was originally drawn on a map in green ink.
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Answer: Meze
Meze, from the word mezedes or 'little delicacies', consists of a variety of small plates of food. These start with savoury dips such as taramasalata and talatouri, followed by a wide range of meat and fish dishes, including lountza (smoked pork), halloumi (soft cheese), stifado (beef stew) and kleftiko (lamb).
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Answer: Catherine Cornaro
She was Venetian and was forced to abdicate from her throne.
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Answer: Makarios
He fled to Britain in 1974 after a coup in that year.
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Answer: The Troodos Mountains
Being surrounded by water, most of the island has a sub-tropical climate, with winters that are too mild for snow, but the height of the Toodros Mountains means that they do get heavy snows. This is not the only reason why they are a tourist hot spot - lovely mountain views and hiking trails, along with many Byzantine churches and monasteries, draw crowds to the area. But even more significant is the Troodos ophiolite. An ophiolite is a geologic structure now considered to be formed when a portion of the oceanic crust gets uplifted and embedded into continental crust. They typically contain the green rocks called serpentine which are responsible for the term ophiolite (from the Greek ophio, snake and lithos, rock), pillow lava and chert. The Troodos ophiolite is particularly significant because it was on the basis of observations made there that Ian Graham Gass (and others) were able to link ophiolites with the developing ideas about sea floor spreading in the 1960s.
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Answer: Akrotiri
The Sovereign Base Areas were created in 1960 by the Treaty of Establishment, when Cyprus was granted independence. The United Kingdom wished to retain sovereignty over these areas because of the strategic location of Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea. Akrotiri is the Western Sovereign Base and Dhekelia is the Eastern Sovereign Base (to the east of Larnaca).
From Quiz: A Visit to Cyprus
Answer: Aphrodite
Aphrodite sprung fully formed from the foam according to legend. You can visit Aphrodite's Baths near the small town of Polis in NW Cyprus.
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Answer: Kykkos
In 1926 Michael Mouskos, later Archibishop Makarios and first President of Cyprus, went to Kykkos as a novice. The Kykkos monastery was built in 1100 and is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, because an icon of the Virgin and Child attributed to St Luke, was given to a Cypriot monk by the Emperor Comnenos. The monastery is 1318 metres high in the north west Troodos Mountains
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Answer: Ledra Observatory
That is the highest point in Nicosia.
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Answer: Paul
His companion Barnabus was born and martyred at Salamis in N Cyprus.
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Answer: Sweet red wine
The Cypriot wine Commanderia is said to be the oldest sweet red wine in the world, produced as long ago as 2000 BC. The name is more recent, dating to the twelfth century when the Knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem bought Cyprus from Richard the Lionheart. They gave the name of their Headquarters (Grand Commanderie) to this unique wine with its delicate aroma and started exporting it to Europe where it became famous.
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Answer: Glafkos Clerides
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Answer: Cat
Legend says that Helen, mother of the Emperor Constantine, first brought cats to Cyprus to deal with the snakes. However archaeological evidence shows that there were cats in Cyprus many centuries before this. A Neolithic burial site revealed the skeleton of a young cat, buried just a few feet away from a human skeleton, which suggests that humans over nine thousand years ago may have kept cats as pets.
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Answer: Intrigue
It was said that they came last and that God had nothing left to give them, but they insisted upon a gift.
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Answer: September 1992
Cyprus occupies a high place internationally in terms of tertiary education. There are about 23 students per 1,000 of the population.
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Answer: Brown
The 1997 note shows a Cypriot girl in traditional costume on the front, and handicraft items and Lefkara village on the back.
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Answer: Troodos
The northern one is the Pendathaktulos. The Bosphorus is a strait separating Turkey, and I made up the other one.
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Answer: Greek
About 82 percent of the population on the island speak Greek. Turkish and Russian are also widely spoken.
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Answer: Troodos
Cyprus's second mountain range the Pentadaktylos (Besparmak in Turkish) is so called because it looks like the 5 fingers of a fist.
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Answer: Cat
A team of archaeologists led by Jean-Denis Vigne discovered a young cat buried with human remains in a site that dates from well before the Egyptian civilization that had been thought to have domesticated the cat as an object of religious significance. The new theory is that cats actually domesticated themselves, moving in to take advantage of the abundant hunting to be found in emerging farming communities in the Fertile Crescent, with rodents coming for the grain, and cats for the rodents. Perhaps that is why they are so aloof - they have always been taking advantage of us, rather than exploited for our purposes.
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Answer: Cheese
Haloumi is a salty cheese made from sheep's milk.
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