Cyprus, Facts at a Glance

November 16, 2007 ·  

Situated in the eastern Mediterranean, the island of the republic of Cyprus has attracted visitors for ten thousand years. Owing to its location at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa, its cultural influences are diverse, with historic monuments dating back to the ancient Greeks and a modern 20th-century lifestyle with some vestiges of the colonial legacy left by the British; Stone Age ruins and Roman amphitheatres stand beside Byzantine churches, Venetian fortresses and Crusader castles.

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