Particularly common law is in England where it originated in the Middle Ages, and in countries that trace their legal heritage to England as former colonies of the British Empire, including India, the United States, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Canada, Malaysia, Ghana, Australia, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Singapore, Ireland, New Zealand, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Cyprus, Barbados,

The Chaldeans now ruled all of Mesopotamia, and the former Assyrian possessions of Aram ( Syria ), Phoenicia, Israel, Cyprus, Edom, Philistia, and parts of Arabia, while the Medes took control of the former Assyrian colonies in Iran, Asia Minor and the Caucasus.

Prominent issues in Hellenic foreign policy include the claims in the Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean by Turkey, the Turkish occupation of Cyprus, the dispute over the name of the Republic of Macedonia ( recognized under the provisional denomination of " former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia "), and relations with the United States and Russia.

* Glafkos Klerides, the former President of Cyprus

* March 12 – Spyros Kyprianou, former President of Cyprus ( b. 1932 )

For instance, the former judge in respect of Cyprus, Loukis Loucaides, criticised the Court for a " reluctance to find violations in sensitive matters affecting the interests of the respondent States ".

* The Orthodox world of the former Soviet Union ( excluding the Baltic states and most of Central Asia ), Armenia, Georgia, the former Yugoslavia ( excluding Slovenia and Croatia ), Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Ukraine and Romania.

* Fazıl Küçük, former vice president of the Republic of Cyprus ( 1960 – 1963 ).

Akrotiri and Dhekelia are United Kingdom's Sovereign Base Areas ( SBAs ) on Cyprus, a former British Crown Colony.

The most famous department store chain in Cyprus is Debenhams ( former Woolworths ( Cyprus )).

* Cypriot pound, the ISO 4217 code for the former currency of Cyprus

The Megali Idea implied the goal of reviving the Byzantine Empire by establishing a Greek state, which would be, as ancient geographer Strabo wrote, a Greek world encompassing mostly the former Byzantine lands from the Ionian Sea to the west, to Asia Minor and the Black Sea to the east, and from Thrace, Macedonia and Epirus to the north, to Crete and Cyprus to the south.

* On June 9, 2005, the Commission announced that “ Roys Poyiadjis, a former CEO of AremisSoft Corporation, which was a software company with offices in New Jersey, London, Cyprus, and India, agreed to final resolution of fraud charges brought against him by the Securities and Exchange Commission in October 2001.

During his time in Cyprus, Mr. Perez de Cuellar married his current wife, the former Marcela Temple Seminario, with whom he has no children.

He is the oldest living former President of the Republic of Cyprus.

Mehmet Ali Talat ( born 6 July 1952 ) is the former President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

Although his side and he himself disagrees with and opposes re-unification with the Republic of Cyprus, and favours the unity of and close relations between northern Cyprus and Turkey and supports the independence of the former, he nevertheless is negotiating with the Greek Cypriot side towards a settlement for reunification, to establish a bi-communal, bi-zonal federation in Cyprus, based on the political equality of the two communities, single sovereignty, single citizenship and international identity.

Parris is the eldest of six children ( three brothers and two sisters ) and grew up in several British territories and former territories: South Africa, Cyprus, Rhodesia ( Zimbabwe ), Swaziland and Jamaica, where his father was working as an electrical engineer.

Papandreou, cleared of charges arising from the Bank of Crete scandal in a 7 – 6 vote at the Eidiko Dikastirio ( Special Court ), criticised Mitsotakis's government for its economic policies, for not taking a sufficiently strict position over the naming dispute with the newly independent former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, as well as over Cyprus, and for being too pro-American.

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

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

* 1946 – Demetris Christofias, Greek-Cypriot politician, and 6th President of Cyprus

* 1919 – Glafcos Clerides, Greek-Cypriot politician, 4th President of Cyprus

A recent prominent example of this was Archbishop Makarios III of Cyprus, who served as President of the Republic of Cyprus from 1960 to 1977.

Politics of the Republic of Cyprus takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Cyprus is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.

The prime originator of Cypriot non-alignment was Makarios III, the first President ( 1960 – 1977 ) of the independent republic of Cyprus.

* 1959 – Archbishop Makarios becomes the first President of Cyprus.

* 1934 – Tassos Papadopoulos, President of Cyprus ( d. 2008 )

* 1974 – In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek Junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d ' état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.

** Makarios III, Archbishop and first President of Cyprus ( d. 1977 )

** Spyros Kyprianou, President of Cyprus ( d. 2002 )

" In 2008 Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre traveled to Cyprus to meet President Demetris Christofias.

Chief Rabbi of Cyprus, Arie Zeev Raskin meets the Cyprus President, Demetris Christofias.

* The Hilton Nicosia in Nicosia, Cyprus, was the scene of the assassination of Youssef Sebai, an Egyptian newspaper editor and friend of Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat, on February 19, 1978.

* Mehmet Ali Talat, the 2nd President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, was born in Kyrenia on 6 July 1952.

# Makarios III President of the Republic of Cyprus

* 9-Nikos Sampson, 65, Cypriot politician, de facto President of Cyprus ( 1974 ).

* Presidents of Cyprus, the Πρόεδρος της Κυπριακής Δημοκρατίας ( President of the Cypriot Republic )

After the 1974 invasion following a Greek junta-based coup attempt, Makarios secured international recognition of his Greek Cypriot government as the sole legal authority on Cyprus, which has proved to be a very significant strategic advantage for the Greek Cypriots in the decades since.

In 1974 the US-backed Greek junta-in power since 1967-partly in a move to draw attention away from internal turmoil and partly unsatisfied with Makarios ' policy in Cyprus, on 13 July attempted a coup to replace him with Nikos Sampson and declare union with Greece.

On 20 July 1974, the TAF launched an invasion of Cyprus on the pretext of a coup which had been staged by the Cypriot National Guard against president Makarios III with the intention of annexing the island to Greece, but the invasion ended up with Turkey occupying a considerable area on the north part of it and establishing a government on it that only Turkey recognizes.

** Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus from exile.

* December 14 – Makarios III is selected the first president of Cyprus.

** The British deport Archbishop Makarios from Cyprus to the Seychelles.

However, even after the restoration of constitutional order and the return of Archbishop Makarios III to Cyprus in December 1974, the Turkish troops remained on the island occupying the northeastern portion of the island.

The programme also attracted complaints from the Boy Scout Association, who were upset by an item questioning the sexuality of its founder Lord Baden-Powell, and the government of Cyprus, which claimed that a joke about Archbishop Makarios, the country's ruler, was a " gross violation of internationally accepted ethics ".

Makarios III ( Mouskos ) of Cyprus baptizes 10, 000 into the Orthodox Church in Kenya.

Among other matters in which he was involved were the dispute between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, assisted emigration from Britain to Australia, and relations with Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus.

National Bank of Greece ( Cyprus ) on Makarios Avenue | Makariou Avenue in Nikosia

In the first presidential elections for independent Cyprus, AKEL backed Ioannis Kliridis ( father of Glafkos Klerides ) against Makarios III.

* Makarios I, archbishop of Cyprus from 1854 to 1865.

* Makarios II, archbishop of Cyprus from 1948 to 1950.

* Makarios III, archbishop ( 1950 – 1977 ) and president of Cyprus ( 1960 – 1977 ).