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[Oracle]

Wrong again Oracle. I only pointed that out as, as I said, I am surprised that 'Anti-Hellenists had not used it for their own arguments.

I am no archealogist and have never read these at such depth before, so I am not presenting an opinion. As far as I am concerned Greek colonists came and spread like locusts all over the region. I have never denied any Greek link to the past.

Thanks for the article Paphites; any more?

Good, spit it out! That's stopped you prevaricating. Good activation button that one, "Turk". Works wonders!

Once again, the anti-Hellenists cannot use this article for their arguments, because it weighs up the evidence available, but admits defeat in denting the Hellenic premise. The author appeared to remain, reverently, as academically neutral as possible.

GR! attempted to claim this for his camp, but without paying due care to evaluating the paradoxical methodology employed. Try as the author might, and kudos to her for attempting such a task, no evidence could be found to refute the narrative/theory that Cyprus is Hellenic.

[Paphitis]

This thread should be renamed the assimilation of Cypriots by the Greeks...

How many Cypriots were assimilated?

Perhaps the native Cypriots were overwhelmed initially by Phoenician migration and then Mycenaean migration.

[boomerang]

This thread should be renamed the assimilation of Cypriots by the Greeks...

How many Cypriots were assimilated?

Perhaps the native Cypriots were overwhelmed initially by Phoenician migration and then Mycenaean migration.

does it matter how many?...the point is they were and that stopped the indigenous people form progressing...

[Lit]

This thread should be renamed the assimilation of Cypriots by the Greeks...

The subject of this thread is accurate and should not be renamed.

From the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus:
http://www.cyprusembassy.net/home/index ... page&pid=8

However the most important event in the history of Cyprus is the arrival of the Achaean settlers at the end of the 12th and during the 11th century B.C.

The new Greek settlers brought a new vigour to the already flourishing culture of the island by establishing new towns and by introducing the Greek language, new techniques in metallurgy, new artistic styles and even religious elements from the Greek world.

In the subsequent Geometric period the hellenization of Cyprus was completed and this is, most probably, the period of the establishment city kingdoms, which are well attested in written sources in the following Archaic and Classical periods.

Cyprus was well-known to the ancients for its copper mines and forests. No wonder its wealth made it the object of contest among the great powers of the Eastern Mediterranean in antiquity: the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Persians, who in turn became its masters.

During the 5th century B.C. Athens played an important role in Cyprus, cooperating with the main cities of the island against the Persians. It was during this time that Evagoras of Salamis rose to power, a figure of worldwide radiance at the time. On the partition of the empire of Alexander the Great, who finally liberated the island from the Persians, Cyprus became one of the most significant parts of the empire of the Ptolemies of Egypt; later it came under the dominion of the Romans in 58 B.C. Both during the Ptolemies and later under the Romans, the Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Paphos was the centre of the national, religious and cultural life of the island. In 330 A.D. it became a province of the Byzantine Empire.

[boomerang]

This thread should be renamed the assimilation of Cypriots by the Greeks...

The subject of this thread is accurate and should not be renamed.

From the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus:
http://www.cyprusembassy.net/home/index ... page&pid=8

However the most important event in the history of Cyprus is the arrival of the Achaean settlers at the end of the 12th and during the 11th century B.C.

The new Greek settlers brought a new vigour to the already flourishing culture of the island by establishing new towns and by introducing the Greek language, new techniques in metallurgy, new artistic styles and even religious elements from the Greek world.

In the subsequent Geometric period the hellenization of Cyprus was completed and this is, most probably, the period of the establishment city kingdoms, which are well attested in written sources in the following Archaic and Classical periods.

Cyprus was well-known to the ancients for its copper mines and forests. No wonder its wealth made it the object of contest among the great powers of the Eastern Mediterranean in antiquity: the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Persians, who in turn became its masters.

During the 5th century B.C. Athens played an important role in Cyprus, cooperating with the main cities of the island against the Persians. It was during this time that Evagoras of Salamis rose to power, a figure of worldwide radiance at the time. On the partition of the empire of Alexander the Great, who finally liberated the island from the Persians, Cyprus became one of the most significant parts of the empire of the Ptolemies of Egypt; later it came under the dominion of the Romans in 58 B.C. Both during the Ptolemies and later under the Romans, the Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Paphos was the centre of the national, religious and cultural life of the island. In 330 A.D. it became a province of the Byzantine Empire.

so nobody was here before the greeks came out here?

it somehow reminds me of when the brits came to australia...

according to you there was no assimilation...is this right?

[Paphitis]

This thread should be renamed the assimilation of Cypriots by the Greeks...

How many Cypriots were assimilated?

Perhaps the native Cypriots were overwhelmed initially by Phoenician migration and then Mycenaean migration.

does it matter how many?...the point is they were and that stopped the indigenous people form progressing...

Just like when the whites came to Australia?

[Paphitis]

This thread should be renamed the assimilation of Cypriots by the Greeks...

The subject of this thread is accurate and should not be renamed.

From the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus:
http://www.cyprusembassy.net/home/index ... page&pid=8

However the most important event in the history of Cyprus is the arrival of the Achaean settlers at the end of the 12th and during the 11th century B.C.

The new Greek settlers brought a new vigour to the already flourishing culture of the island by establishing new towns and by introducing the Greek language, new techniques in metallurgy, new artistic styles and even religious elements from the Greek world.

In the subsequent Geometric period the hellenization of Cyprus was completed and this is, most probably, the period of the establishment city kingdoms, which are well attested in written sources in the following Archaic and Classical periods.

Cyprus was well-known to the ancients for its copper mines and forests. No wonder its wealth made it the object of contest among the great powers of the Eastern Mediterranean in antiquity: the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Persians, who in turn became its masters.

During the 5th century B.C. Athens played an important role in Cyprus, cooperating with the main cities of the island against the Persians. It was during this time that Evagoras of Salamis rose to power, a figure of worldwide radiance at the time. On the partition of the empire of Alexander the Great, who finally liberated the island from the Persians, Cyprus became one of the most significant parts of the empire of the Ptolemies of Egypt; later it came under the dominion of the Romans in 58 B.C. Both during the Ptolemies and later under the Romans, the Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Paphos was the centre of the national, religious and cultural life of the island. In 330 A.D. it became a province of the Byzantine Empire.

so nobody was here before the greeks came out here?

it somehow reminds me of when the brits came to australia...

according to you there was no assimilation...is this right?

Just like the native Australians were overwhelmed with European migration.

So how can Australians claim an indigenous aboriginal inheritance?

[Lit]

This thread should be renamed the assimilation of Cypriots by the Greeks...

The subject of this thread is accurate and should not be renamed.

From the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus:
http://www.cyprusembassy.net/home/index ... page&pid=8

However the most important event in the history of Cyprus is the arrival of the Achaean settlers at the end of the 12th and during the 11th century B.C.

The new Greek settlers brought a new vigour to the already flourishing culture of the island by establishing new towns and by introducing the Greek language, new techniques in metallurgy, new artistic styles and even religious elements from the Greek world.

In the subsequent Geometric period the hellenization of Cyprus was completed and this is, most probably, the period of the establishment city kingdoms, which are well attested in written sources in the following Archaic and Classical periods.

Cyprus was well-known to the ancients for its copper mines and forests. No wonder its wealth made it the object of contest among the great powers of the Eastern Mediterranean in antiquity: the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Persians, who in turn became its masters.

During the 5th century B.C. Athens played an important role in Cyprus, cooperating with the main cities of the island against the Persians. It was during this time that Evagoras of Salamis rose to power, a figure of worldwide radiance at the time. On the partition of the empire of Alexander the Great, who finally liberated the island from the Persians, Cyprus became one of the most significant parts of the empire of the Ptolemies of Egypt; later it came under the dominion of the Romans in 58 B.C. Both during the Ptolemies and later under the Romans, the Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Paphos was the centre of the national, religious and cultural life of the island. In 330 A.D. it became a province of the Byzantine Empire.

so nobody was here before the greeks came out here?

it somehow reminds me of when the brits came to australia...

according to you there was no assimilation...is this right?

I am simply providing you with what the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus is officially stating. If you have any questions, contact the embassy.

BTW somebody tell the French in France that they are not really French but some prehistoric tribe called the Anooka Anooka tribe. Give me a break.

[The Cypriot]

Were Cypriots created by extraterrestrials?



I simply refuse to believe that Cypriots were capable of developing an advanced culture and civilisation without outside intervention.

We are NOT alone.

[boomerang]

This thread should be renamed the assimilation of Cypriots by the Greeks...

The subject of this thread is accurate and should not be renamed.

From the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus:
http://www.cyprusembassy.net/home/index ... page&pid=8

However the most important event in the history of Cyprus is the arrival of the Achaean settlers at the end of the 12th and during the 11th century B.C.

The new Greek settlers brought a new vigour to the already flourishing culture of the island by establishing new towns and by introducing the Greek language, new techniques in metallurgy, new artistic styles and even religious elements from the Greek world.

In the subsequent Geometric period the hellenization of Cyprus was completed and this is, most probably, the period of the establishment city kingdoms, which are well attested in written sources in the following Archaic and Classical periods.

Cyprus was well-known to the ancients for its copper mines and forests. No wonder its wealth made it the object of contest among the great powers of the Eastern Mediterranean in antiquity: the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Persians, who in turn became its masters.

During the 5th century B.C. Athens played an important role in Cyprus, cooperating with the main cities of the island against the Persians. It was during this time that Evagoras of Salamis rose to power, a figure of worldwide radiance at the time. On the partition of the empire of Alexander the Great, who finally liberated the island from the Persians, Cyprus became one of the most significant parts of the empire of the Ptolemies of Egypt; later it came under the dominion of the Romans in 58 B.C. Both during the Ptolemies and later under the Romans, the Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Paphos was the centre of the national, religious and cultural life of the island. In 330 A.D. it became a province of the Byzantine Empire.

so nobody was here before the greeks came out here?

it somehow reminds me of when the brits came to australia...

according to you there was no assimilation...is this right?

I am simply providing you with what the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus is officially stating. If you have any questions, contact the embassy.

BTW somebody tell the French in France that they are not really French but some prehistoric tribe called the Anooka Anooka tribe. Give me a break.

and 30 years ago the australian natives had no say in anything...simply put the white man was wrong as to what the embassy says today in Cyprus...

the day will come...don't you worry about that...