Cyprus

by Lüdke, Tilman

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Illustration 1. Cyprus in Pīrī Reʾīs’ Kitāb-i baḥriyye , 1521. Cyprus (Gk. Κύπρος (Kýpros), Turk. Kıbrıs), the third-largest island in the Mediterranean, located some 75 kilometres south of the southern coast of Turkey and about 100 kilometres west of Syria and Lebanon (Illustration 1), has been, throughout history, an important commercial and cultural link between East and West. Ottoman rule, from 1571 to 1878 (which brought a large Muslim Turkish population to the island), and British rule, f…

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Illustration 1. Cyprus in Pīrī Reʾīs’ Kitāb-i baḥriyye , 1521. Cyprus (Gk. Κύπρος (Kýpros), Turk. Kıbrıs), the third-largest island in the Mediterranean, located some 75 kilometres south of the southern coast of Turkey and about 100 kilometres west of Syria and Lebanon (Illustration 1), has been, throughout history, an important commercial and cultural link between East and West. Ottoman rule, from 1571 to 1878 (which brought a large Muslim Turkish population to the island), and British rule, from 1878 to 1960, were followed by independence and intercommunal conflict between

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei1729

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eng Islam

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Lüdke, Tilman

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