Venetian Cyprus information

for centuries wanted to control Cyprus and Venetian merchants worked on the island beginning in 1000 AD, when the Venetian (commercial and military) expansion...

period from 1745 to 1748. During Venetian rule, the Ottomans at times raided Cyprus. In 1489, the first year of Venetian control, Ottomans attacked the...

The Kingdom of Cyprus (French: Royaume de Chypre; Latin: Regnum Cypri) was a medieval kingdom of the Crusader states that existed between 1192 and 1489...

Human habitation of Cyprus dates back to the Paleolithic era. Cyprus's geographic position has caused Cyprus to be influenced by differing Eastern Mediterranean...

British Cyprus (Greek: Βρετανική Κύπρος; Turkish: İngiliz Kıbrıs) was the island of Cyprus under the dominion of the British Empire, administered sequentially...

nach Jerusalem In 1570–1571, Famagusta was the last stronghold in Venetian Cyprus to hold out against the Turks under Mustafa Pasha. It resisted a siege...

was appointed Captain-General of Famagusta in Cyprus and led the Venetian resistance to the Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573). He was executed by flaying...

The siege of Famagusta happened in Venetian-controlled Famagusta, the last Christian possession in Cyprus. Famagusta fell to the Ottomans in August 1571...

1489, ushering in the Venetian period. Chronicle of Amadi Cyprus under the Ottoman Empire History of Cyprus Kingdom of Cyprus "Cyprus - Turkey, Greece, Conflict...

quarter), Cyprus (2nd and 4th quarters), and Cilician Armenia (3rd quarter) Coat of arms of Republic of Venice (1500–1571) Coat of arms of Venetian Cyprus (1555)...

History of Friuli Istria Venetian Dalmatia Venetian Slovenia Venetian Albania Venetian Cyprus Medieval demography Naval history Cyprus became officially a...

Cyprus. His death paved the way for Republic of Venice to gain control of Cyprus. On 30 July 1468, James II of Cyprus married a 14-year-old Venetian,...

Lusignan dynasty and the Venetians was followed by over three centuries of Ottoman rule between 1571 and 1878 (de jure until 1914). Cyprus was placed under the...

part of Cypriot history. This article covers the period 10,000 to 800 BC and ends immediately before the documented history of Cyprus begins. Cyprus was not...

when Cyprus came under the rule of the Republic of Venice, Nicosia became their administrative center and the seat of the Republic. The Venetian Governors...

Nicosia, also known as the Venetian Walls, are a series of defensive walls which surround Nicosia, the capital city of Cyprus. The first city walls were...

The ancient history of Cyprus shows a precocious sophistication in the Neolithic era visible in settlements such as at Choirokoitia dating from the 9th...

Candia – ? Duchy of the Archipelago Ionian Islands under Venetian rule – ? Venetian Cyprus – ? 1,500,000 0.3% 32 Kingdom of Tlemcen 1,500,000 0.3% 33...

conquest of previously Venetian Cyprus in 1570/71, and in the campaign against Georgia and Persia in 1578. During the campaign on Cyprus, Lala Mustafa Pasha...

The Realm or Kingdom of Candia (Venetian: Regno de Càndia; Italian: Regno di Candia) or Duchy of Candia (Venetian: Dogado de Càndia; Italian: Ducato di...

Piscopias ran a large sugar plantation in their fief near Episcopi in Venetian Cyprus, in which they exploited slaves of Syrian or Arab origin or local serfs...

surviving texts and is now thought to be the ancient name of Cyprus, or an area of Cyprus. This was confirmed by the scientific analysis performed in Tel...

published by the French philologist Émile Legrand in 1881. Cypriot dialect Venetian Cyprus Leontios Machairas Georgios Boustronios Rodosthenous-Balafa...

Republic of Venice (Italian: Repubblica di Venezia; Venetian: Repùblega de Venèsia) or Venetian Republic, traditionally known as La Serenissima, was...

Venice could claim control of Cyprus after the death of her husband. Catherine (also known as Caterina) was a daughter of Venetian Marco Cornaro, Cavaliere...