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Geographic Locations > Islands > Mediterranean Islands > Cyprus
Environment and Public Health > Environment > Islands > Mediterranean Islands > Cyprus
... > Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Islands > Mediterranean Islands > Cyprus
Geographic Locations > Europe > Mediterranean Region > Mediterranean Islands > Cyprus

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Cyprus  

Type

  • Geographical Descriptor

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Note

  • an island republic in the eastern Mediterranean

Scope note

  • An island republic in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its capital is Nicosia. It was colonized by the Phoenicians and ancient Greeks and ruled successively by the Assyrian, Persian, Ptolemaic, Roman, and Byzantine Empires. It was under various countries from the 12th to the 20th century but became independent in 1960. The name comes from the Greek Kupros, probably representing the Sumerian kabar or gabar, copper, famous in historic times for its copper mines. The cypress tree is also named after the island. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p308 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p134)

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