* Agros, an example of an agrotourism sustained village, on Troodos Mountains in Cyprus.

This recognition was tied to two events: ( 1 ) the observation of magnetic anomaly stripes on the seafloor, parallel to oceanic ridge systems, interpreted by Frederick Vine and Drummond Matthews to represent the formation of new crust at the oceanic ridge and its subsequent symmetric spreading away from that ridge, and ( 2 ) the observation of a sheeted dike complex within the Troodos ophiolite ( Cyprus ) by Ian Graham Gass and co-workers, which must have formed by repetitive extension of crust and intrusion of magma resulting in a formation consisting of 100 % dikes with no older wall rocks preserved within the complex.

Ironically, some of the classic ophiolite occurrences used to relate ophiolites to seafloor spreading ( Troodos in Cyprus, Semail in Oman ) were found to be " SSZ " ophiolites, formed by rapid extension of fore-arc crust during subduction initiation.

Tethyan ophiolites are characteristic of those that occur in the eastern Mediterranean sea area, e. g., Troodos in Cyprus and in the Middle East such as Semail in Oman, which consist of relatively complete rock series corresponding to the classic ophiolite assemblage and which have been emplaced onto a passive continental margin more or less intact ( Tethys is the name given to the ancient sea that once separated Europe and Africa ).

* Troodos Ophiolite in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus, in these case its study has partly been economically motivated as the copper deposits of Cyprus are part of the ophiolite.

* Gass, I. G. ( 1968 ) Is the Troodos massif of Cyprus a fragment of Mesozoic ocean floor?

* Moores E. M. and F. J. Vine ( 1971 ) The Troodos massif, Cyprus, and other ophiolites as oceanic crust: Evaluation and implications, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 268A, 443-466

* Troodos – Cyprus

In Cyprus the battalion was successful in Operation Golden Rain, destroying a major EOKA terrorist group operating in the Troodos Mountains in 1956.

Troodos ( ()) is the biggest mountain range of Cyprus, located in the center of the island.

The Troodos mountain range stretches across most of the western side of Cyprus.

Troodos slowly rose from the sea due to the collision of the African and European tectonic plates, a process that eventually formed the island of Cyprus.

The Troodos Mountains in Cyprus are known for their snowy vistas and has a large number of accommodations from camping sites to 5 star hotels.

File: Troodos mountains snowing season Winter near Kakopetria village Republic of Cyprus. jpg | Winter in Troodos Mountains near Kakopetria

File: Troodos Mountains ( Cyprus ). jpg | Troodos Mountains

File: Pinus brutia forest Cyprus. jpg | Pinus brutia, foothills of Troodos Mountains

Twenty million years ago Cyprus was actually two islands, which were the predecessors of the Kyrenia and Troodos mountain ranges.

** Cyprus Cedar, Cedrus brevifolia, mostly classified as being distinct to the Cedar of Lebanon, found in the island's Cedar Valley in the Troodos Mountains

It is located in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus.

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* 1913 – Makarios III, Greek archbishop and politician, 1st President of Cyprus ( d. 1977 )

Aphrodite is also known as Cytherea ( Lady of Cythera ) and Cypris ( Lady of Cyprus ) after the two cult-sites, Cythera and Cyprus, which claimed her birth.

Aphrodite is usually said to have been born near Paphos, on the island of Cyprus, for which reason she is called " Cyprian ", especially in the poetic works of Sappho.

Petra Tou Romiou | Petra tou Romiou (" The rock of the Greeks | Greek "), Aphrodite's legendary birthplace in Paphos, Cyprus.

Cyprus Sign Language is reported to be a blend of ASL and Greek Sign Language, which may itself have developed from a combination of ASL and FSL.

* 1974 – Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the " Green Line ", dividing Cyprus into two zones.

* 1977 – Makarios III, Greek archbishop and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Cyprus ( b. 1913 )

* 1974 – The second Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins ; 140, 000 to 200, 000 Greek Cypriots become refugees.

* 1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.

* 2005 – Helios Airways Flight 522 en route from Larnaca, Cyprus via Athens, Greece to Prague, Czech Republic crashes near Athens, with at least 121 on board.

* 1960 – Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.

However, Sargon took this process further, conquering many of the surrounding regions to create an empire that reached westward as far as the Mediterranean Sea and perhaps Cyprus ( Kaptara ); northward as far as the mountains ( a later Hittite text asserts he fought the Hattite king Nurdaggal of Burushanda, well into Anatolia ); eastward over Elam ; and as far south as Magan ( Oman ) — a region over which he reigned for purportedly 56 years, though only four " year-names " survive.

Whether he also did in the case of the Mediterranean with the kingdom of Kaptara ( possibly Cyprus ), as claimed in later documents, is more questionable.

* Rhapsomates, who tried to create an independent kingdom in Cyprus.

His kingdom consisted probably of Egypt only, as far as the First Cataract, but to this he added Cyprus, and his influence was great in Cyrene.

Amathus () was one of the most ancient royal cities of Cyprus, on the southern coast in front of Agios Tychonas, about 24 miles west of Larnaca and 6 miles east of Limassol.

Its ancient cult of Aphrodite was the most important, after Paphos, in Cyprus, her homeland, though the ruins of Amathus are less well-preserved than neighboring Kourion.

A special burial ground for infants, a tophetAgelarakis A., “ The Amathous ( tophet ) cremations in Cyprus ”, In D. Christou on “ Human Cremations at the Western Necropolis of Amathous ” < Cremations in Bronze and Early Iron Age >, Proceedings of Int.

It certainly maintained strong Phoenician sympathies, for it was its refusal to join the philhellene league of Onesilos of Salamis which provoked the revolt of Cyprus from Achaemenid Persia in 500-494BC, when Amathus was besieged unsuccessfully and avenged itself by the capture and execution of Onesilos.

In the Roman era it became the capital of one of the four administrative regions of Cyprus.