Sir John Harding had taken over as the new governor of Britain’s crown colony of Cyprus. Within an hour, Governor Harding telephoned Archbishop Myriarthefs Makarios, leader of the Greek Cypriot ...
In the third part of his series of articles on the Cyprus problem, Leontios Ierodiakonou looks at how Makarios’ refusal to heed the advice of the Greek government led to Britain bringing Turkey ...
As the deadline for the plan’s start approached, Archbishop Makarios, the bearded Greek Orthodox Ethnarch whom the British expelled from Cyprus for encouraging Greek Cypriot violence ...
Arthur Brand says tracking down the mosaic felt very special The man nicknamed "the Indiana Jones of the art world" has done ... Century mosaic stolen from Cyprus. Finding the 1,600-year-old ...
On both Friday and Saturday evenings, a big, colourful parade will take place on Archbishop Makarios ... art spaces, local institutions, art initiatives and guests from Cyprus and abroad.
One of those enemies is thought to have been Polycarpos Giorkatzis, the regional commander of EOKA in Cyprus – whose top ...
The latest talks aimed at reunifying Cyprus have ended without a deal. The Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot communities have been split since conflict erupted in 1974. A UN buffer zone separates the two ...
Historians rank presidents one way, the public another. A few presidents surprise skeptics and rise to distinction. From a hand-hammered copper ladle to a chef-recommended Italian pasta-making ...