In 321 four Cypriot kings sided with Ptolemy I Soter and defended the island against Antigonos.

There was a mutuality of interests: Alexander the Great increased the capacity of his fleet, and the Cypriot kings achieved political independence.

The Cypriot kings, in command of 120 ships, each with a very experienced crew, provided substantial assistance to Alexander in the siege of this city, which lasted for seven months.

In 331 BCE, while Alexander was returning from Egypt, he stayed for a while in Tyre, where the Cypriot kings, wishing to reaffirm their trust and support for him, put on a great show of honour.

The Cypriot kings who, so far, had managed largely to maintain their kingdoms ' independence, found themselves in a new and difficult position.

Though in name only, this title was something the Lusignan kings were very proud of as it appears on the Cypriot coat of arms.

c. 680 BC Ten Cypriot kings, including Pylagoras king of Chytroi, Eteander king of Paphos and Damasus king of Kurion assist Esarhaddon, king of Assyria in his campaign against Egypt.

but his hopes for Greek Cypriot approval of such a plan were soon scotched by the nationalist's victory in the 2009 parliamentary elections.

During the siege of Tyre, the Cypriot Kings went over to Alexander the Great.

On 27 April 2012, Special Advisor of the Secretary-General Alexander Downer said " If the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot Leaders cannot agree with each other on a model for a united Cyprus, then United Nations cannot make them ".

In this operation, Alexander was helped by many Cypriot and Phoenician engineers who built earthworks on his behalf.

His gratitude was shown, for example, by the help he gave to Pnytagora, who seems to have been the main driver of this initiative to support Alexander, to incorporate the territory of the Cypriot kingdom of Tamassos into that of Salamis.

Cyprus was an experienced seafaring nation and Alexander used the Cypriot fleet during his campaign into India ; because the country had many navigable rivers, he included a significant number of shipbuilders and rowers from Cyprus, Egypt, Phoenicia and Caria in his military expedition.

Alexander sought to make clear that he considered himself the master of the island, and abolished the currencies of the Cypriot kingdoms, replacing them by the minting of his own coins.

The death of Alexander the Great marks the beginning of the Hellenistic period of Cypriot history.

Two Aegean vases were found at Sidon in 1885, and many fragments of Aegean and especially Cypriot pottery have been found during recent excavations of sites in Philistia by the Palestine Fund.

On 1 January 2008, the country entered the eurozone and adopted the euro as its official currency, replacing the Cypriot pound at an irrevocable fixed exchange rate of CYP 0. 585274 per EUR 1. 00.

In response to Cypriot fears that the Jews would never leave ( since they lacked a state or documentation ) the British later allowed the refugees to enter Palestine at a rate of 750 per month.

The practice of writing spread and tablets in the Cypriot syllabic script have been found at Ras Shamra which was the Phoenician city of Ugarit.

Guido suggests that if a " few dominating leaders arrived as heroes only a few centuries before Phoenician trading posts were established, several features of Sardinian prehistory might be explained as innovations introduced by them: oriental types of armour, and fighting perpetuated in the bronze representation of warriors several centuries later ; the arrival of the Cypriot copper ingots of the Serra Ilixi type ; the sudden advance in and inventiveness of design of the Sardinian nuraghes themselves at about the turn of the first Millennium ; the introduction of certain religious practices such as the worship of water in sacred wells-if this fact was not introduced by the Phoenician settlers ".

In the 2nd century BC, it is cited as one of six Cypriot towns which were benefactors to the Oracle at Delphi, that is, it received its special representatives who collected contributions and gifts.

However, at a late stage CyBC decided that the song was ineligible to represent them as it had been entered into the 1984 Cypriot selection, where it had finished in 3rd place.

This was classed as a breach of the Cypriot rules of selecting their entry at this time ( and an infringement of the Eurovision rules ) and so Cyprus withdrew from the 1988 contest.

( Another Cypriot magus named Atomos is referenced by Josephus, working at the court of Felix at Caesarea.

The Cypriot market will be able to travel to Boston, New York, Newark and Los Angeles on behalf of Virgin, with connecting flights at London Heathrow Airport.

Commandaria, by law is aged for at least four years in Oak Barrels but this can take place outside the above designated area within Cyprus under strict control and under the conditions laid down in Cypriot legislation.

He sent a delegation to the Caliph at Damascus, asking for the return of many Cypriot prisoners who had been captured near the Propontis, and subsequently returned them to their place of birth.

The woman was clad with gold coils in her hair, rings, gold breast plates, an heirloom necklace ( an elaborate Cypriot or Near Eastern necklace made some 200 – 300 years before her burial ) and an ivory handled dagger at her head.

He took up the duties of a priest in the Cypriot Orthodox Church while sustaining an interest in academic theology ; he received a World Council of Churches scholarship to undertake further study at Boston University in Massachusetts.

This highly influential position put Makarios at the centre of Cypriot politics.

Makarios, characterised in the British press as a crooked Cypriot priest and viewed with suspicion by the British authorities, was intercepted by Special Branch officers whilst attempting to board a flight at Nicosia airport.

At his funeral, held at St. John's Cathedral outside the Archbishopric in Nicosia, 182 dignitaries from 52 countries attended whilst an estimated 250, 000 mourners — about half the Greek Cypriot population of the island — filed past the coffin.

He was also one of the four representatives of the Greek Cypriot side at the Constitutional Commission which drafted the Constitution of the Republic of Cyprus.

Furthermore he represented the Greek Cypriot community in many recourses by Cyprus filed at the United Nations and the Council of Europe.

Ray also argues that the external threat did not prevent conflicts in the Western bloc when at least one of the involved states was a nondemocracy, such as the Turkish Invasion of Cyprus ( against Greek Junta supported Cypriot Greeks ), the Falklands War, and the Football War.

Governor at two local Secondary Schools, he is also involved with the Scouts and the Rotary Club, and is a vocal supporter of the rights of Falun Gong practitioners and the Greek Cypriot community.

Traditionally, Cypriot men are seen drinking coffee at village coffee shops while playing tavli or other boardgames.

Ferdinand started his career in non-league football, first at AEL ( a KOPA Cypriot team in England ) then to Southall then moving to Hayes.

During the transitional period after the signing of the agreements on Cyprus, Kyprianou represented the Greek Cypriot side at the Athens Conference for the drafting of the Agreement on the Application of the Tripartite Alliance ( Cyprus – Greece – Turkey ), this was provided for in the London – Zurich Agreements.

It is descended from the older Linear A, an undeciphered earlier script used for writing the Minoan language, as does the later Cypriot syllabary, which also recorded Greek.

With Turkey's military action of 1974 ( disapproved by UN Security Council Resolution 1974 / 360 ), Turkey occupied the northern part of the internationally recognised Republic of Cyprus, and later upon those territories the Turkish Cypriot community unilaterally declared independence forming the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ( TRNC ), a sovereign entity that lacks international recognition-with the exception of Turkey with which TRNC enjoys full diplomatic relations.

Cyprus decimalised the Cypriot pound in 1955 by dividing it into 1000 mils, later replaced by 100 cents.

In fact, the anti-colonial movement in Cyprus was identified with the enosist movement, enosis being, in the minds of the Hellenic population of Cyprus, the only natural outcome of the liberation of the Cypriot people from Ottoman rule and later the British rule.

Karn was born into a Greek Cypriot family, in Nicosia, Cyprus, as Andonis Michaelides, which was later modified to Antony Michaelides.

Efrem, who had been playing on the youth team of Arsenal FC and later Scottish side, Rangers, would be the final piece to the puzzle needed to win its 20th Cypriot League Championship.

He was also the leader of the underground Greek Cypriot pro-Enosis movement, initially known simply as the Organisation, which later clashed with the Turkish Cypriot TMT in the intercommunal strife which began in December 1963.

Upon his death, the Cypriot Government declared a three-day official mourning and three days later, the Cypriot Parliament declared General Grivas " a worthy son of the motherland ".

On 22 August 2005, Kinkladze played his last game for Anorthosis against Omonia in the Cypriot Super Cup and two days later, on the day of the second leg of the tie against Rangers, he left to close a deal with Rubin.

The Turkish Cypriot Parliament passed a unanimous resolution later that day ratifying the declaration.

Cypriot artists later discarded this Egyptian style in favour of Greek prototypes.

Kyrillos ( 1859 – 1933 ), nicknamed Kyrilloudin ( small Kyrillos to differentiate from Kyrillos II ), was the bishop of Kyrenia and later became the archbishop of the Cypriot Orthodox Church.

In Cyprus war of 1974, this village was secured so as to be placed within a contiguous Turkish Cypriot zone, which later became in 1975, the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus, then in 1983, the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ( TRNC ).

He later produced the Greek Cypriot director's fictional feature debut Akamas ( 2006 ) about a love affair between a Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot.

Several years later the Jets were able to sell their clubhouse, now the Cypriot Club, but by then time had elapsed and readmission to the top flight League was not considered.

Londo would later play for Cypriot club Digenis Morphou before finishing his career in Belgium with U. R. S.