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Why doesn’t Paphitis or anyone else tell us all about this “Hellenism” on Cyprus prior to the 1821 incidents?

[Antreis]

One of our flags in the Athens War Museum( if i am not mistaken ).

In any case although i do not totally agree with Paphitis we could have done much more . He is right though about some pointless coffee-shop style discussions in this forum that lead to nowhere.

[Antreis]

A graphic version copied from the book "Cyprus and the War of Greek Independence 1821-1829"

[Antreis]

Kyriakos Matsis

[Nikitas]

Question- "Why doesn’t Paphitis or anyone else tell us all about this “Hellenism” on Cyprus prior to the 1821 incidents?"

Answer- "It wasn't 3 bishops that were beheaded but 486 people that were leaders in the GC community that were hung. Amongst them were 3 bishops."

Obviously the Turks had no doubts about Hellenism in 1821 or before. Unlike GR they did not distinguish between Greeks and Chirokitians.

[Antreis]

Why doesn’t Paphitis or anyone else tell us all about this “Hellenism” on Cyprus prior to the 1821 incidents?

What do you want to know about the period prior to to the 1821 massacre ?
About the education , the political situation, the economy, the social structure , the attempts to free ourselves , the religious belief of the people, the nautical traditions , what ?

[Get Real!]

Question- "Why doesn’t Paphitis or anyone else tell us all about this “Hellenism” on Cyprus prior to the 1821 incidents?"

Answer- "It wasn't 3 bishops that were beheaded but 486 people that were leaders in the GC community that were hung. Amongst them were 3 bishops."

Obviously the Turks had no doubts about Hellenism in 1821 or before. Unlike GR they did not distinguish between Greeks and Chirokitians.

It's not the Turks I was talking about Nikitas...

[Paphitis]

Why doesn’t Paphitis or anyone else tell us all about this “Hellenism” on Cyprus prior to the 1821 incidents?

Cyprus was part of the Byzantine Empire before the Ottomans, Venetians and Lusignans. You can't get any more Hellenic than that other than the fact that Cypriots just happen to speak the same language, have always believed in the same God/s and coincidently had similar customs throughout the ages even at a time when Greece never existed as a nation.

[Paphitis]

Kyriakos Matsis

Well done Antreis!

[Oracle]

Question- "Why doesn’t Paphitis or anyone else tell us all about this “Hellenism” on Cyprus prior to the 1821 incidents?"

Answer- "It wasn't 3 bishops that were beheaded but 486 people that were leaders in the GC community that were hung. Amongst them were 3 bishops."

Obviously the Turks had no doubts about Hellenism in 1821 or before. Unlike GR they did not distinguish between Greeks and Chirokitians.

Good point. We must have had some indications about our heritage .... unless the Ottomans were sadly mistaken.

What those anti-Hellenes are doing right now, is what some Jews did when threatened by Hitler and abandoned (temporarily) wearing their Star of David or other give-away signs of their heritage.

Understandable under fear and frustration ....