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[askimwos]

I agree with oranos64, and by the way, i Kibros ine Eliniki!

The earliest civilizations discovered in Greece are the Minoan in Crete (2700..1450 BC) and the mainland Helladic (2800..2100 BC). Turkey’s Hittite Empire (1900-1300 BC) is also a baby compared to the Cypriot settlement "Choirokoitia" (3,500 BC) added to Unesco's World Heritage List in 1998.

By contrast the first Greeks to arrive on the island were Myceneans (people from the southern part of Greece called “Sparti”) at around 1500BC with the aim of trading their goods. Some of these Greeks stayed and lived on the island and in time their influence was successful enough to shape language, religion, and the culture of Cyprus.

Cypriots occupied Cyprus for over 5,000 years before the very first Greek showed up. It looks something like this...

Cypriots (Cypriots) 7000 BC +5,500 years
Greeks (Myceneans) 1500 BC +3,070 years
Turks (Ottomans) 1570 AD

Civilization wise:

Turkey (Hittite Empire) 1900-1300 BC
Greece (Minoan in Crete) 2700..1450 BC
Greece (Mainland Helladic) 2800..2100 BC.
Cyprus (Choirokoitia) 3,500 BC

So, who do you suppose discovered who?

Just a small correction there..Choitokitia dates back to 7000BC and not 3500BC.
Here is something I posted in another thread:

Choirokoitia (also known as Khirokitia) is one of the most important prehistorical sites in the eastern Mediterranean area. The site is only partly recovered, and archaelogical work is still going on.

Human life in Choirokoitia started around 7000 BC, in the Neolithicum. Where the people came from is not known for sure. It is possible that the neolithic villages on Cyprus were a result of colonization from the Middle East.
What do we know about the people that lived here? The village probably had about 300 inhabitants. They practised agriculture and animal husbandry, and didn't usually live longer than 35 years. One of their most remarkable customs was to bury their dead under the floors of the houses of the living relatives. In this way the dead remained close to the living.

Here are some links to Unesco World Herritage Website about Choirokitia

http://www.worldheritagesite.org/sites/ ... oitia.html

http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=848

[bigOz]

I agree with oranos64, and by the way, i Kibros ine Eliniki!

The earliest civilizations discovered in Greece are the Minoan in Crete (2700..1450 BC) and the mainland Helladic (2800..2100 BC). Turkey’s Hittite Empire (1900-1300 BC) is also a baby compared to the Cypriot settlement "Choirokoitia" (3,500 BC) added to Unesco's World Heritage List in 1998.

By contrast the first Greeks to arrive on the island were Myceneans (people from the southern part of Greece called “Sparti”) at around 1500BC with the aim of trading their goods. Some of these Greeks stayed and lived on the island and in time their influence was successful enough to shape language, religion, and the culture of Cyprus.

Cypriots occupied Cyprus for over 5,000 years before the very first Greek showed up. It looks something like this...

Cypriots (Cypriots) 7000 BC +5,500 years
Greeks (Myceneans) 1500 BC +3,070 years
Turks (Ottomans) 1570 AD

Civilization wise:

Turkey (Hittite Empire) 1900-1300 BC
Greece (Minoan in Crete) 2700..1450 BC
Greece (Mainland Helladic) 2800..2100 BC.
Cyprus (Choirokoitia) 3,500 BC

So, who do you suppose discovered who?

Just a small correction there..Choitokitia dates back to 7000BC and not 3500BC.
Here is something I posted in another thread:

Choirokoitia (also known as Khirokitia) is one of the most important prehistorical sites in the eastern Mediterranean area. The site is only partly recovered, and archaelogical work is still going on.

Human life in Choirokoitia started around 7000 BC, in the Neolithicum. Where the people came from is not known for sure. It is possible that the neolithic villages on Cyprus were a result of colonization from the Middle East.
What do we know about the people that lived here? The village probably had about 300 inhabitants. They practised agriculture and animal husbandry, and didn't usually live longer than 35 years. One of their most remarkable customs was to bury their dead under the floors of the houses of the living relatives. In this way the dead remained close to the living.

Here are some links to Unesco World Herritage Website about Choirokitia

http://www.worldheritagesite.org/sites/ ... oitia.html

http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=848

Only couple of days prior to the above post I sent a full account of Cyprus history that included the very same links as here! The problem with this forum is - there is so much megalomania and ignorance going on that in another two weeks, we shall probably have the same argument again. Sometimes it is very hard to change people's beliefs especially if they are blinded by totally flawed nationalist views...

[theodore]

[quote="free_Cyprus"]the reason why there's so much hate is because everything Cypriot Greek speaking and Turkish speaking,thats of any good all the government employee's ,education radio stations t v is run by former eoka and tmt, and they actively encourage divide and rule on both sides,how do i know this because i have had dealings with them on all levels,my personal experience tells me this.so if this is going on actively how can we have peace in Cyprus when our people who are born bred and who are Cypriots, divide us, how can we have a solution to a problem that was imported from outsiders, how can we have a problem solved when they are running the island, these are supposed to represent us so we can have harmony and unity where all Cypriots can live together in harmy regardless of the language or religion they practice. but this is impossible for a simple reason when one calls himself Turkish and Greek Cypriot you already bring in the so called motherlands with that sentance,i choose another route i say I'm a Greek speaking or Turkish speaking Cypriot and i have nothing to do with turkey or Greece, and that's what im that's what i stand for, people have to make up their own minds to what they are[/quote]

You have made my day that is what I am talking about a Cypriot with a back bone saying we "Cypriots" we like our INDEPENDENCE.
In America we have this independence day July 4th BUT STILL LIKE ENGLAND we are our own independent Country but still except there help when help needed in other words they are part of us and we are part of them but independent country.
Just think if England never gave us this independence we would not been the "America" as the world knows today. and Cyprus needs the same.