• Lecture: "The Modern History of Cyprus from Ottoman Rule to the Present Day" Part 2: British Cyprus
    25 €
    16.06.2025
    25 €
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    Understanding Key Issues:

    ▪️ The British: Friends or foes of the Cypriots?
    ▪️ Greek-Turkish relations on the island at the start of the century
    ▪️ A journey to the Greek islands of Crete and Rhodes — are they really Greek?
    ▪️ The Balkan Wars, World War I, and Cyprus
    ▪️ How Cyprus nearly became part of Greece
    ▪️ "Then it is war" — the famous "OHI" of General Metaxas
    ▪️ The man who “awakened” the Cypriots — General Georgios Grivas
    ▪️ The National Liberation Struggle of 1955–1959 and the April 1st holiday

    ???? When: June 16 at 19:30
    ???? Location: ART-podval, Limassol

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