The three later moved to Cyprus, where Lazarus became the first Bishop of Kition ( modern Larnaca ).

Usually connected with Kition in Cyprus, but name appears in other texts with a variety of interpretations.

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.

During the reign of Sargon, the Assyrians had occupied Cyprus, but following Sargon's death in 705, Luli reclaimed the island and its colony of Kition.

The local town of Kition, now Larnaka, recorded part of the ancient history of Cyprus on a stele that commemorated an Assyrian victory there in 709 BCE.

Ptolemy entered Cyprus with further military forces in 312 BCE, captured and killed the king of Kition and arrested the pro-Antigonid kings of Marion and Lapithos-Kyrenia.

Salamis extended its authority throughout eastern, central and northern Cyprus, since Kition and Lapithos were absorbed into it and Tamassos already belonged.

Opponents of him in those elections were the Bishop of Kition Meletios, the Bishop of Kykkos Kleopas and archimandrite Makarios Myriantheas, later known as Makarios II who became Archbishop of Cyprus years later.

The city of Larnaca, ( Greek: Λάρνακα, Turkish: Larnaka ) on the west coast of Cyprus, was known in ancient times as Kition, or ( in Latin ) Citium.

At the session of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus held on March 2, 1972, Bishop Anthemos of Kition, Bishop Kyprianos of Kyrenia, and Bishop Gennadios of Paphos, tabled a motion proposing that Archbishop Makarios III resign the Presidency of the Republic of Cyprus.

Following resistance from the kings of Kition, Amathus and Soli, who fled to the great king of Persia in 390 BC to request support, Evagoras received less help from the Athenians than he had hoped for and in about 380 BCE, a Persian force besieged Salamis and Evagoras was forced to surrender.

The kingdom of Tamassos was then ruled by King Poumiathonta of Kition who had purchased it for 50 talents from king Pasikypro.

Sixty of Menelaus's ships that had escaped from the harbor of Salamis were now in Kition, and these vessels were added to the 140 triremes and pentireis and 200 military transport ships of Ptolemy.

The ten kingdoms listed by an inscription of Esarhaddon in 673 / 2 BC have been identified as Salamis, Kition, Amathus, Kourion, Paphos and Soli on the coast and Tamassos, Ledra, Idalium and Chytri in the interior.

Punjabi translation by Tejpal Singh, Kition Nawan, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 2001

The projects funded by their program, the Shelby White-Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications, include excavations at some of the highest profile archaeological sites throughout Greece and the Middle East, including Knossos, Aphrodisias, Kition, Ras Shamra, Sarepta, Mt.

The ten kingdoms listed by an inscription of Esarhaddon in 673 – 2 BCE have been identified as Soloi, Salamis, Paphos, Kourion, Amathus and Kition on the coast, and Tamassos, Ledrai, Idalion and Chytroi in the interior of the island.

In 450 BCE, Idalion was taken over by Phoenicians from Kition.

A great contemporary figure of Cypriot letters was the philosopher Zeno who was born at Kition about 336 BCE and founded the famous Stoic School of Philosophy at Athens, where he died about 263 BCE.

A stela found 1845 in Kition commemorates the victory of king Sargon II ( 721-705 BC ) in 709 over the seven kings in the land of Ia ', in the district of Iadnana or Atnana.

Seleucus and Menelaos began to besiege Kition.

In 701, after another revolt, Sennacherib forced Luli to flee to Kition.

To complete the picture we should also mention the eunuch priests of Artemis at Ephesus ; the western Semitic qedeshim, the male “ temple prostitutes ” known from the Hebrew Bible and Ugaritic texts of the late second millennium ; and the keleb, priests of Astarte at Kition and elsewhere.

and was known as Kition, or ( in Latin ) Citium.

Like most Cypriot cities, Kition belonged to the Persian or Achaemenid Empire.

Zeno was born in Kition in 334 BC.

However, while besieging Kition, Cimon died, and the Athenian force decided to withdraw, winning another double victory at the Battle of Salamis-in-Cyprus in order to extricate themselves.

In 1948, while still studying at Boston, he was elected Bishop of Kition.

Some towns ( Enkomi, Kition, Palaeokastro and Sinda ) show traces of destruction at the end of LC IIC.

A stele found in 1845 in the city formerly named Kition, near present-day Larnaka, commemorates the victory of King Sargon II ( 721 – 05 BCE ) in 709 BCE over seven kings in the land of Ia ', in the district of Iadnana or Atnana.

Around 450 BCE, Kition annexed Idalion with Persian help.

The importance of Kition increased again when it acquired the Tamassos copper-mines.

In other parts of the island, the Phoenician script ( Kition ) or the Cypriot syllabic alphabet were still used.

Diodorus Siculus tells us that Amathus was forced to provide hostages, while Kition was laid siege to in about 315 BCE.

A Sanctuary with a horned altar constructed from ashlar masonry has been found at Myrtou-Pigadhes, other temples have been located at Enkomi, Kition and Kouklia ( Palaepaphos ).

A Sanctuary with a horned altar constructed from ashlar-masonry has been found at Myrtou-Pigadhes, other temples have been located at Enkomi, Kition and Kouklia ( Palaepaphos ).

In Ugarit, Resheph was identified with Nergal, in Idalion, Cyprus, with Apollo.

At the Mongol camp near Kars Andrew had met a certain David, who in December 1248 appeared at the court of King Louis IX of France in Cyprus.

It is located south of Asia Minor, the Anatolian peninsula of the Asian ( or Eurasian ) mainland ( now part of modern-day Turkey ), so it may be included in Western Asia or the Middle East: At a confluence of Western Asia, Southern Europe, and Northern Africa, Cyprus has had lengthy periods of mainly Greek and intermittent Anatolian, Levantine, Byzantine, and Western European influences.

* took a dim view of any proposals which did not allow for the repatriation of Turkish settlers from the mainland who had emigrated to Cyprus since 1974 ; and

Since gaining independence from the United Kingdom in 1960, Cyprus has had a record of successful economic performance, reflected in strong growth, full employment conditions and relative stability.

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 478, during the reign of the Emperor Zeno, archbishop Anthemios of Cyprus announced that the hidden burial place of Barnabas had been revealed to him in a dream.

In February of 2012, it was reported in Turkish newspapers that another Syriac manuscript of the Gospel of Barnabas had been found in Cyprus in 2000, in an operation conducted by police against smugglers ; and, having been kept in a police repository since then, had been deposited in the Ethnography Museum of Ankara.

But when, in early 1915, the Allies asked for Greek help in the Dardanelles campaign, offering Cyprus in exchange, their diverging views became apparent: Constantine had been educated in Germany, was married to Sophia of Prussia, sister of Kaiser Wilhelm, and was convinced of the Central Powers ' victory.

The Lebanese man was in possession of photographs of Israeli targets and had information on Israeli airlines flying back and forth from Cyprus, and planned to blow up a plane or tour bus.

John's position was undermined by Walter's relative popularity and by the news that Richard had married whilst in Cyprus, which presented the possibility that Richard would have legitimate children and heirs.

As compensation, Richard sold Guy the island of Cyprus, which Richard had captured on the way to Acre, although Guy continued to claim the throne of Jerusalem until his death in 1194.

Amalric II had already inherited Cyprus from Guy, and had been crowned king by Frederick Barbarossa's son, Emperor Henry VI.

The High Court of Cyprus had elected John of Ibelin as regent, but Henry's mother Alice of Champagne wished to appoint one of her supporters ; Alice and her party, members or supporters of the Lusignan dynasty, sided with Frederick, whose father had crowned Amalric of Lusignan king in 1197.

In the midst of these events, Alice of Champagne had died in 1246 and had been replaced as regent by her son King Henry I of Cyprus, for whom John of Jaffa served as bailli in Acre.

They acquired large tracts of land, both in Europe and the Middle East ; they bought and managed farms and vineyards ; they built churches and castles ; they were involved in manufacturing, import and export ; they had their own fleet of ships ; and at one point they even owned the entire island of Cyprus.

He gave his support to his Poitevin vassal Guy of Lusignan, who had brought troops to help him in Cyprus.

2000 – 1650 BC Akrotiri developed into one of the Aegean's major Bronze Age ports, with recovered objects that had come, not just from Crete, but also from Anatolia, Cyprus, Syria, and Egypt as well as from the Dodecanese and the Greek mainland.

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.

The Republic of Turkey also formally accepted the loss of Cyprus ( which was leased to the British Empire following the Congress of Berlin in 1878, but de jure remained an Ottoman territory until World War I ) as well as Egypt and Sudan ( which were occupied by British forces with the pretext of " putting down the Urabi Revolt and restoring order " in 1882, but de jure remained Ottoman territories until World War I ) to the British Empire, which had unilaterally annexed them on 5 November 1914.

By the end of the 1940s the number of languages broadcast had expanded and reception had improved following the opening of a relay in modern day Malaysia and of the Limassol relay, Cyprus, in 1957.