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Industries: Food, beverages, textiles, chemicals, metal products, tourism, Vegetables, poultry, pork, lamb, kids, dairy. Natural resources: Copper, pyrites, asbestos, gypsum, timber, salt, marble,Īgriculture products: Potatoes, citrus, vegetables, barley, grapes, olives, Religions: Greek Orthodox, Muslim, Maronite, Roman Catholic, Armenian Orthodox. Terrain: Central plain with mountain ranges to the north and south.Ĭlimate: Mediterranean climate with hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters.Įthnic groups: Greek (77%), Turkish (18%), Armenian and other (4%). Location: Middle East, an island in the Mediterranean Sea, south of Turkey.
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Independence: 16 August 1960 (from the UK). Related countries: Greece, Turkey, United Kingdom Of the United Nations and the European Union, efforts to reunite the island under The Republic of Cyprus became an independent state on 16 August 1960, and a member of the United Nations one month later, it is a member state of the European Union since 2004. Of the island in the south, and the Turkish Cypriot one-third in the north, with a buffer zone, maintained by UN peacekeeping forces, between them. Since 1974, Cyprus has been divided de facto into the Republic of Cyprus controlled two-thirds 40% of the total Greek Cypriot population, were forced to leave Intervention from Turkey in which the Turkish troops soon controlled about 37% Government of the President of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, answered by a military In 1974, a coup was staged in Cyprus by the Greek-military junta to seize the Independent and was proclaimed a Republic. Until August 1960 when, after a four-year liberation struggle, the island became Annexed formallyīy the United Kingdom in 1914, it became a crown colony in 1925. In 1571, the island was conqueredīy the Ottoman Turks and was ceded to Great Britain in 1878. For 800 years,īeginning in 364 AD, Cyprus was ruled by Byzantium. Under Assyrian, Egyptian, Persian, Greek, and Roman domination. Cypriot culture is among the oldest in the Mediterranean.