>Greatest producer of copper in antiquity, extremely infuential for bronze age trade >Home of the philistines and other sea peoples who caused the bronze age collapse >opened the silver trade routes to Europe and showed the Phoenicians the routes towards it, leading to the alphabetic revolution and the urbanization of South Europe >Home of the founder of the Stoicism school of thought >Reason for the greatest naval battle ever, the battle of Lepanto between Europe and Ottomans
>Cyprus became the first country in the world to be governed by a Christian ruler.
Leo Smith
>ccording to some ancient authorities, Stasinus (Greek: Στασῖνος) of Cyprus, a semi-legendary early Greek poet, was the author of the Cypria, in eleven books, one of the poems belonging to the Epic Cycle that narrated the War of Troy. According to Photius others ascribed it to Hegesias (or Hegesinus) of Salamis or elsewhere even to Homer himself, who was said to have written it on the occasion of his daughter's marriage to Stasinus. At Halicarnassus, according to an inscription found in 1995, local tradition ascribed it to a local poet, a "Kyprias" (Κυπρίας).[1][2]
Evan Allen
Because everytime Cyprus is brought to discussion it turns in to a shitstorm between Greeks and Turks.
Daniel White
How did they manage to stay Greek for centuries even though it's closest to the Middle East than Europe?
Chase Thompson
>manage to stay Greek WRONG
Aiden Butler
But the majority of the island is still Greek. Also that's pure nigger-tier behaviour, Turks do things like this and then wonder why people don't like them.
Tyler Peterson
>MY ASS IS BUTTBLASTED
Ryan Wright
>Mehmet shits up another thread This thread really needs flags to weed out T*rks
Lucas Collins
*board
Jaxson Lopez
I hate t*rks but this is fucking hilarious
Jaxson Cooper
masterbaiters
Eli Lee
*website
Kevin Sanchez
>philistines Isn't that Crete? Pretty sure its Crete
Owen Hernandez
No, it is not, Philistines used Cypro Minoan and were dressed as bronze age Cypriots, not as Cretins, they were also buried like Cypriots and used Mycenean pottery of the Cypriot and Cilician variant, they were Cyprtiots with maybe a little Minoan-Mycenean admixture but they were mostly Cypriot
Daniel Rivera
I think it' also has the most aesthetic coastline of any island in the med. That peninsula in the northeast is just so dashing.
Julian Lopez
>New discoveries reveal that the Philistine cities of ancient Israel were laid out like Bronze Age cities in Cyprus, unlike the haphazard structure of the surrounding Canaanite towns. Also, archaeological investigation in Philistine Gath itself found metal-smelting technologies alien to Canaanite traditions, but akin to techniques found in Cyprus of thousands of years ago. read more: haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.738150
Aaron Myers
Going here on holiday next month. Any cool historical things to visit? Planning to see the Tomb of Kings but I have no idea what it is.
Levi Howard
>T*rk ruins yet another thread
Can we rangeban these roaches already
Brandon Murphy
*planet
James Murphy
>island looks like its dabbing
Easton Perry
TURK = ALPHA = BUTTBLASTER wh*Te = BETA = BUTTHURT
William Phillips
>Using nigger as an "insult" why do you wh*Te subhumans always so pathetic?
