Brief history of Cyprus

The name Cyprus of the thırd largest island ın the mediterranean comes from the word
CHOPPER. As you can see my İsland does have some links to Hİ. The Byzantine rule over Cyprus lasted until 1192, when Richard the lionheart took possession of the island in revenge for misbehaviour by the rulers of Cyprus towards his fleet, which was on its way to the third crusade. After marrying Berengaria of Navarre in Cyprus, where she was crowned the queen of England, Rıchard sold the island to the knight Templars, who soon sold it to Guy de Lusignan, the deposed, King of Jerusalem. The Lusignan era ended when queen Cornaro ceded Cyprus to Venice ın 1489. Venitians viewed the island as the last bastion against the Ottoman Empire in the Eastern Mediterranean, so they left the mark in Cyprus by destroyıng many palaces and buildings in order to surround the major cities with fortified walls, whıch at the tıme were considered works of art of military architecture. The ottoman period ın Cyprus lasted for more than 300 years, during which the ottoman population of Cyprus gradually gained its own Cypriot identity, bringing to existence two communities in Cyprus - Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot.