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The Flag on The Mountain
The sight-line looking to the north from Nicosia and central Cyprus is dominated by the Pentadaktylos Mountains, on the other side…
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Ermou Street 2017
Ermou Street within the ancient walls of eastern Nicosia. In the mid-1900s, this was a thriving shopping area. Now, this stretch o…
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Nicosia Barrier
The wall from the northern side in the western part of Nicosia within the ancient city walls (map coordinates are inaccurate here)…
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Buffer Zone
The highway passage from south to north, just west of Nicosia, passes through a fenced off UN-controlled buffer zone. The Pentadak…
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Kyrenia Town Office
Kyrenia is an ancient port town located on the north coast. The town was reportedly founded before 1,000 BCE by Greeks from the Pe…
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Abandoned House in Nicosia
A house near the Green Line in Nicosia - abandoned and likely destroyed during the inter-communal conflicts of the 1960's or 197…
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My House from 1956-1960
Most houses and businesses that were abandoned in 1974 following the division of the island were subsequently reoccupied by refuge…
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Panagia Chrysopolitissa Church
Interior of Panagia Chrysopolitissa - 2017. Note the remaining wooden beams the iconostasis, altar, and font in the left-hand si…
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Panagia Chrysopolitis Church, Kyrenia - 2012
The ruins of Panagia Chrysopolitissa. Built probably during the French rule of Cyprus(14th and 15th Centuries) with an addition po…
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Panagia Chrysopolitissa Church
Detail of the ont of the left-hand side of the church.
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Panagia Chrysopolitissa Church
Detail of the carving on the beam of the iconostasis.
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Kyrenia Castle and Harbor - 2017
A key feature of the northern port town of Kyrenia is its distinctive medieval harbor and castle. There is a stand-alone Byzantin…
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Kyrenia Harbor - 1960
When I left Cyprus in 1960, Kyrenia harbor was still a sleepy working port - small fishing boats, Andreas Kariolou's scuba and div…
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Kyrenia Harbor 1988
By 1988, Kyrenia Harbor had changed - larger boats had appeared, but the fishing boats were still there. A couple of restaurants d…
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Kyrenia Harbor - 2012
By 2012, the harbor is beginning to really fill up with pleasure boats, some fairly large. There are fewer working fishing boats,…
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Kyrenia Harbor 2017
By 2017, five years on, the harbor is clogged with pleasure boats, The road around the harbor is now ringed by restaurants and bar…
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Kyrenia circa 1878
This etching of Kyrenia and its harbor, taken from the internet, shows it as the sleepy harbor that it once was. I find it sad tha…
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Turish Cypriot- Kyrenia 1960
This man, probably a Turkish Cypriot posed for me beside our house in 1960. Down this street, about 100 yards, was the Turkish Qu…
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Kyrenia - 1960
In 1960, grazing sheep in the open plots of land were a common sight in Kyrenia, as in this field adjacent to our house. The tre…
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To the Other Side - 1960
The main road from Kyrenia south to Nicosia as through the pass in the Pentadacytos Mountain range. This field, in front of our ho…
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St Evlalios Church Lambousa
St Evlalios was the first Bishop of Lambousa. Lambousa reportedly was settled in the 13th Century BCE by settlers from Greece. O…