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Cyprus. / 35.167°N 33.367°E / 35.167; 33.367. Cyprus[ f] ( / ˈsaɪprəs / ⓘ ), officially the Republic of Cyprus, [ g] is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. It is geographically a part of West Asia, but its cultural ties and geopolitics are overwhelmingly Southeast European.
Akrotiri and Dhekelia ( / ˌækroʊˈtɪəri ənd diˈkeɪliə / ), officially the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia[ 2] ( SBA ), [ a] is a British Overseas Territory on the island of Cyprus, and a part of the United Kingdom. The areas, which include British military bases and installations that were formerly part of the Crown ...
The Cyprus problem, also known as the Cyprus conflict, Cyprus issue, Cyprus dispute, or Cyprus question, is an ongoing dispute between the Greek Cypriot community which runs the Republic of Cyprus (de facto only comprising the south of the island since the events of 1974) and the Turkish Cypriot community in the north of the island, where troops of the Republic of Turkey are deployed.
The earliest site of putative human activity on Cyprus is Aetokremnos, situated on the south coast. Fossilised animal remains and lithic tools indicate that seasonal hunter-gatherers were active on the island from around 12,000 BC. [1] [2] Extinction of the endemic to Cyprus pigmy hippos and pigmy elephants, likely due to human presence. [3] [4]
Turkish occupation of northern Cyprus begins. Unknown. The 1974 Cypriot coup d'état was a military coup d'état executed by the Cypriot National Guard and sponsored by the Greek military junta. On 15 July 1974 the coup plotters removed the sitting President of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III, from office and installed pro- Enosis nationalist ...
Cyprus has four exclaves, all in territory that belongs to the British Sovereign Base Area of Dhekelia. The first two are the villages of Ormidhia and Xylotymvou . Additionally there is the Dhekelia Power Station, which is divided by a British road into two parts.
Languages of Cyprus. The official languages of the Republic of Cyprus are Greek and Turkish. [ 2]: art. 3, § 1 The everyday spoken language ( vernacular) of Greek Cypriots is Cypriot Greek, and that of Turkish Cypriots is Cypriot Turkish. For official purposes, the standard languages ( Standard Modern Greek and Standard Turkish) are used.
Akrotiri Bay ( Greek: Κόλπος Ακρωτηρίου, Kolpos Akrotiriou; Turkish: Limasol Körfezi) is a part of the Mediterranean Sea east of the Akrotiri Peninsula on the southern coast of the island of Cyprus. The Western Sovereign Base Area of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, a British Overseas Territory set up after Cypriot independence was ...