There are 22 state parties where the convention is ratified: Bosnia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Dominica, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Iraq, Liberia, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Tunisia, and Ukraine

The new party had four objectives: to confront Turkish expansionism in Cyprus, to reestablish and solidify democratic rule, to give the country a strong government, and to make a powerful moderate party a force in Greek politics.

In 2004, the EU enlarged to include 10 new countries, eight developing former-communist countries ( including three which were part of the Soviet Union itself ) along with Malta and the divided island of Cyprus.

By order of the Duke, Othello leaves Venice to command the Venetian armies against invading Turks on the island of Cyprus, accompanied by his new wife, his new lieutenant Cassio, his ensign Iago, and Emilia as Desdemona's attendant.

Yet Manuel's attention was to be drawn to Antioch again in 1156, when Raynald of Châtillon, the new Prince of Antioch, claimed that the Byzantine emperor had reneged on his promise to pay him a sum of money, and vowed to attack the Byzantine province of Cyprus.

The new port has the greatest commercial and passenger flow of traffic and it is the biggest port in the free part of Cyprus.

Next Solon sailed to Cyprus, where he oversaw the construction of a new capital for a local king, in gratitude for which the king named it Soloi.

In the meantime the epistola synodica of Sophronius appeared, the outcome of the Synod of Cyprus, and this attempted to show that the new doctrine was inconsistent with orthodoxy.

The new platform sets were known by nicknames-the two platforms added for suburban services in 1878 were the ' Cyprus Station ', whilst the six built in 1885 for use by trains on the Windsor line became the ' Khartoum Station '.

During Pygmalion's reign, Tyre seems to have shifted the heart of its trading empire from the Middle East to the Mediterranean, as can be judged from the building of new colonies including Kition on Cyprus, Sardinia ( see Nora Stone discussion below ), and, according to tradition, Carthage.

Given the bad economy and infrastructure of the town ; the new trend is the majority of Turkish Cypriots moving to other places in the north part of Cyprus ( mainly Nicosia and Kyrenia ).

Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus, the island's last Byzantine governor, sent his family and treasures to the castle for safety in 1191 when King Richard I of England went to war with him and became the island's new master.

* 2002Major new projects launched in automotive sector • Cyprus, Serbia, and Montenegro become full members

From his travels, he was able to secure authorization from some monarchs for the export of supplies to Cyprus, but could obtain no firm commitment for a new Crusade.

The plan was to coordinate actions between the Christian military orders, the King of Cyprus, the aristocracy of Cyprus, the forces of Cilician Armenia, and a new potential ally, the Mongols of the Ilkhanate ( Persia ), to oppose the Egyptian Mamluks and retake the coastal city of Tortosa in Syria.

Following the loss of Ruad, de Molay abandoned the tactic of small advance forces, and instead put his energies into trying to raise support for a new major Crusade, as well as strengthening Templar authority in Cyprus.

Apart from Cyprus and the People's Republic of China, Russia has tried to export T-80 MBTs to Turkey and Greece, who were looking for new tanks.

In 1362 Peter of Cyprus, with the legate and Philippe visited the princes of western Europe in quest of support for a new crusade, and when the king returned to the east he left Philippe and Peter Thomas to represent his case at Avignon and in the cities of northern Italy.

Philippe returned to Cyprus in 1368, but was still at Venice when Peter was assassinated at Nicosia at the beginning of 1369, and he remained there until 1372, when he went to the court of the new pope Gregory XI at Avignon.

Cyprus added many new cooperation agreements with other airlines as it developed its international reach by linking Europe and the Middle East.

Passengers will fly from Cyprus to London, and then from London to the new American destinations on Virgin.

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.

The Lausanne Treaty formally acknowledged the new League of Nations mandates in the Middle East, the cession of their territories on the Arabian Peninsula, and British sovereignty over Cyprus.

Despite the decline of the British Empire, the Army was still deployed around the world, fighting wars in Aden, Indonesia, Cyprus, Kenya and Malaya.

Their standard of living is reflected in the country's " very high " Human Development Index, and Cyprus is ranked 23rd in the world in terms of the Quality-of-life Index.

Cyprus has the fourth-largest ship registry in the world, with 2, 758 ships and 25. 5 million gross registered tons ( GRTs ).

* The International Institute for Diasporic and Transcultural Studies ( IIDTS )-a transnational institute incorporating Jean Moulin University ( Lyons, France ), the University of Cyprus, Sun Yat-sen University ( Guangzhou, China ) and Liverpool Hope University ( UK )-is a dedicated research network operating in a transdisciplinary logic and focussed on cultural representation ( and auto-representation ) of diasporic communities throughout the world.

Also, similar hunting-out happened with the megafauna of New Zealand, Madagascar and many smaller islands around the world ( such as New Caledonia, Cyprus, Crete and Wrangel Island ), and at least in part, in the Americas — probably within a thousand years or so.

The language is spoken by at least 13 million people today in Greece, Cyprus, and diaspora communities in numerous parts of the world.

* 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.

* The Muslim world of the Greater Middle East ( excluding Armenia, Cyprus, Ethiopia, Georgia, Israel, Malta and South Sudan ), northern West Africa, Albania, Bangladesh, Brunei, Comoros, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Maldives.

Water wells discovered by archaeologists in western Cyprus are believed to be among the oldest in the world, dated at 9, 000 to 10, 500 years old, putting them in the Stone Age.

Cyprus Airways was one of the first airlines to operate the Airbus A310, the eighth airline in the world to receive the Airbus A320, and the first airline that launched the IAE V2500 engine along with Adria Airways.

1300 – 1190 BCE ), Ugarit was at the centre of the literate world, among Egypt, Anatolia, Cyprus, Crete, and Mesopotamia.

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.

BFBS broadcasts to service personnel, their families and friends all over the world with local radio studios in Brunei, Canada, Cyprus, Germany, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, and Northern Ireland and operational areas from the studio in Afghanistan.

In 2008 the electronic / world music group Mikros Kosmos (" small world ") arrived in Cyprus and recorded their first album in Nicosia.

He won the inaugural edition of the Cyprus round of the world championship, and finished third in the drivers ' points standings.

The Assyrian Empire at its peak was the largest the world had yet seen, and ruled all of what is now modern day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, Cyprus and Bahrain, together with large swathes of Iran, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Sudan and Arabia.

There are special displays of items from Egypt, Cyprus and the Roman world, and special exhibitions are regularly mounted.

On 12 February 1983, as part of the Euro 1984 qualifiers, Cyprus held world champions Italy to a 1 – 1 draw in Nicosia, followed a month later by the same result against Czechoslovakia.

FN's P90 personal defense weapon and PDW-caliber Five-seven pistol are used by military and police forces in over 40 countries throughout the world, such as Canada, Cyprus, France, Greece, India, Peru, Poland, Spain, and the United States.

Engel received the George Paraskevaides Award on May 17, 2007, given to those who have utilized ancient Hellenic values to contribute to the nations and people of Cyprus and America and to the Hellenics in the modern world.

In Greece, Cyprus and the Greek diaspora throughout the world, the feast is colloquially called the " Phōta " (, " Lights ") and customs revolve around the Great Blessing of the Waters.

Ohi Day ( also spelled Ochi Day, Epeteios tou "' Ohi ", Anniversary of the " No ") is celebrated throughout Greece, Cyprus and the Greek communities around the world on October 28 each year, to commemorate the rejection by Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas ( in power from August 4, 1936, until January 29, 1941 ) of the ultimatum made by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on October 28, 1940.

During the war, October 28 was commemorated yearly by Greek communities around the world and in Greece and Cyprus, and after World War II it became a public holiday in Greece and Cyprus.