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The Island Everyone Wanted

From the hut dwellers of Chirokitia, to ancient Greek city-kingdoms, sunken trading ships, exquisite Roman mosaics, royal weddings and brutal wars, the events that shaped the history of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, one of the oldest civilisations of the world, are vividly brought to life.

 

Down the centuries it’s been coveted by all the big powers of the day. Egyptians, Persians, Phoenicians, Romans, Byzantines, Crusaders, French kings and queens, Venetians, Ottomans and the British, all at one time or other ruled the island and left their mark.

Το Νησί που όλοι ήθελαν

Αρχαίες ελληνικές πόλεις-κράτη, βυθισμένα εμπορικά πλοία, εκλεκτά ρωμαϊκά ψηφιδωτά, βασιλικοί γάμοι και βάναυσοι πολέμοι, όλα τα γεγονότα που καθόρισαν την ιστορία του νησιού, ένας από τους παλαιότερους πολιτισμούς στον κόσμο, ζωντανεύουν έντονα μέσα από τις σελίδες του βιβλίου. 

 

Όμορφες εικόνες ξυπνούν τη φαντασία με σκηνές από την καθημερινή ζωή, που συμπεριλαμβάνουν διάφορα αντικείμενα από κάθε περίοδο. Βρείτε το ειδώλιο που κρύβεται σε κάθε σελίδα και ταξιδεύει μέσα στους αιώνες. 

Herkesin Istedigi Ada

Chirokitada barakalarda yaşayanlardan, tarihi Yunan şehir kırallıklarından, batık ticaret gemilerden, nefis Roman mozaiklerinden, kraliyet düğünleri ve acımasız savaşlar, dünyanın en eski medeniyetlerinden birini canlandırmış hayata getirmiş Akdeniz adası Kıbrıs'ın tarihini şekillendiren olaylardır. 

Yüzyıllardan beri dönemin bütün büyük güçleri onu arzuluyordu. 
Mısırlılar, Persler, Fenikeliler, Romalılar, Bizanslılar, Haçlılar, Fransız kıralları ve kraliçeleri, Venedikliler, Osmanlılar ve İngilizler, hepsi bir zamanlar adaya hükmetmiş ve izlerini birakmıştı. 

The Traitors' Club

“Which is the Greek coffee and which the Turkish?”

In Cyprus the way you order coffee can get you into trouble, as even coffee is political.

But not for the author and her group of friends from both sides of the divide, who don’t want to colour themselves as either Greek or Turkish, but as Cypriots.

 

They are the Traitors’ Club, traitors because they are friends and because they have a goal that the rest of their compatriots don’t seem to share – to live together as one people.

 

Through playful banter over coffee in an Ottoman courtyard in the divided capital, Nicosia, they share their moving, funny and harrowing experiences of anticolonial struggle, internecine fighting, war, partition and endless, ineffective peace negotiations, in what has become known as ‘the Cyprus problem’.

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