Further archaeological objects found during the excavations are conserved at the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia, as well as at the Limassol District Archaeological Museum.

Category: Archaeological sites in Cyprus

Category: Archaeological sites in Northern Cyprus

Bes statue from Amanthus ( Cyprus ) in the Istanbul Archaeological Museums

Category: Archaeological sites in Northern Cyprus

Category: Archaeological sites in Cyprus

Category: Archaeological sites in Cyprus

Category: Archaeological sites in the Republic of Cyprus

The bronze " Ingot God " from Enkomi, 12th century BC, Cyprus Archaeological Museum, Nicosia

Important collections among the Library holdings include the Cyprus Studies Collection, Archaeological Collection and Turkish Studies Collection.

Category: Archaeological sites in Cyprus

* Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute, Nicosia, and

* Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute ( CAARI ) Nicosia, Cyprus

In the 1870s Luigi Palma di Cesnola carried out excavations in the necropolis of Amathus, as elsewhere in Cyprus, enriching the early collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ; some objects went to the British Museum.

A map of Cyprus in the later Bronze Age ( such as is given by J. L. Myres and M. O. Richter in Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum ) shows more than 25 settlements in and about the Mesaorea district alone, of which one, that at Enkomi, near the site of Salamis, has yielded the richest Aegean treasure in precious metal found outside Mycenae.

* St Barnabas Monastery and Icon Museum, Famagusta, Cyprus

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.

#* Veronica Tatton-Brown, Cyprus BC: 7000 years of history ( London, British Museum 1979 ).

Other interesting museums include the Folk Art Museum, National Struggle Museum ( witnessing the rebellion against the British administration in the 1950s ), Cyprus Ethnological Museum ( House of Dragoman Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios, 18th century ) and the Handicrafts Centre.

Cyprus Museum | Cypriot Archeological Museum

A map of Cyprus in the later Bronze Age ( such as is given by J. L. Myres and M. O. Richter in Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum ) shows more than twenty-five settlements in and about the Mesaorea district alone, of which one, that at Enkomi, near the site of Salamis, has yielded the richest Aegean treasure in precious metal found outside Mycenae.

Three objects from Cyprus ( held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ) were cast as by the lost-wax technique, from the 13th and 12th centuries BC, namely, the Amphorae Rim, the rod tripod, and the cast tripod.

They currently reside in the Byzantine Museum in Cyprus.

They were taken to Bavarian National Museum for safekeeping before being returned to Cyprus.

Thalassa, the Municipal Museum of the Sea in Ayia Napa, is dedicated to the enhancement, promotion and preservation of the marine heritage of Cyprus, from prehistoric times to the present.

Among the fruits of his first expedition to the East were an extensive collection of Eastern fabrics, and a large series of figures from Cyprus, which are now in the British Museum.

Cyprus BC, 7000 Years of History ( London, British Museum 1979 ).

He continues to curate, organise and exhibit around the world: in Seoul, LA and Cyprus, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and Design Museum, London as well as in castles, sheds and garages.

By his first wife, Eschiva of Ibelin, he was the father of Hugh I of Cyprus and was crowned in Nicosia on September 22, 1197.

Bank of Cyprus offices in Aglandjia, Nicosia.

Embassy of Greece in Nicosia, Cyprus

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

The Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies at the University of Exeter in collaboration with The Rumi Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus, and Archetype Books, Cambridge published the first volume of the Mawlana Rumi Review in 2010 and published the second volume in May 2011.

** A Globe Air Bristol Britannia turboprop crashes at Nicosia, Cyprus, killing 126 people.

** General Grivas and his 10, 000 strong Greek Army division are forced to leave Cyprus, after 24 Turkish Cypriot civilians are killed by the Greek Cypriot National Guard in the villages of Kophinou and Ayios Theodhoros ; relations sour between Nicosia and Athens.

Further restaurants are planned to be opened within the next 18 months ( probably also in Cyprus ' capital Nicosia ).

* Nicosia, Cyprus, becomes a possession of Venice.

In: Vassos Karageorghis and J. D. Muhly ( eds ), Cyprus at the close of the Bronze Age ( Nicosia 1984 ), 39-55.

Nicosia ( ), known locally as Lefkosia (, ), is the capital and largest city in Cyprus, as well as its main business center.

Nicosia is the capital and seat of government of the Republic of Cyprus.

During the Turkish army invasion of Cyprus in 1974, Turkish troops occupied northern Nicosia ( as well as the northern part of Cyprus ).

Nicosia later became a city-state known as Ledra or Ledrae, one of the twelve kingdoms of ancient Cyprus built by Achaeans after the end of the Trojan War.

After the destruction of Salamis by Arab raids in 647, the existing capital of Cyprus, Nicosia became the capital of the island around 965, when Cyprus rejoined the Byzantine Empire.

Nicosia had acquired a castle and was the seat of the Byzantine governor of Cyprus.

During this time, Nicosia was the capital of the medieval Kingdom of Cyprus, the seat of Lusignan kings, the Latin Church and the Frankish administration of the island.

Map of Nicosia in Cyprus, created in 1597

In 1489, when Cyprus was came under Venetian rule, Nicosia became their administrative center and the seat of the Republic of Venice.

In 1960 Nicosia became the capital of the Republic of Cyprus, a state established by the Greek and Turkish Cypriots.

Cyprus Supreme Court in Nicosia

South Nicosia is political, economic and cultural centre of the Republic of Cyprus.