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RR 2010/348 Historical Dictionary of Cyprus Farid Mirbagheri Scarecrow Press Lanham, MD and Plymouth 2010 lv + 231 pp. ISBN: 978 0 8108 5526 7 £49.95; $80 Historical Dictionaries of Europe, No. 69 Also available as an e-book (ISBN 978 0 8108 6298 2)
Keywords Cyprus, Dictionaries, History
Review DOI 10.1108/09504121011077516
Reviewing this book brought back memories of the 1960s when the bearded and black-robed figure of Archbishop Makarios was ever on the television news bulletins, plus British troops at RAF Akrotiri and Dhekelia, maps showing the locations of Limassol, Famagusta, Kyrenia and Paphos, and frequent mention of Colonel Grivas, enosis (union - with Greece) and EOKA, the guerrilla movement. Cyprus must be one of the most divided and fought over countries in the world, located, as it is, between Europe, Asia and Africa. The Hyksos from Egypt, Mycenaean Greeks, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Persians, Cyrus the Great and Alexander the Great, Romans, Byzantines, the Turkish Ottomans, and even the British have ruled it at different times. In 1960 Cyprus won...