insan wrote:Piratis wrote:insan wrote:Piratis wrote:Hattusili's son, Tudhaliya IV, was the last strong Hittite king able to keep the Assyrians out of Syria and even temporarily annex the island of Cyprus.
Remember the "temporary" part, because that holds true for all foreign invaders of Cyprus, including the Turks
By the way, Tudhaliya IV rained between 1237 BCE and 1209 BCE. Cyprus already had a Greek population by that time and by having some Hittie ruler for a while didn't change this fact. So this answers your question "What was the GC population of Cyprus during the Hittite Rule?"
And the Phonecians came much later, in the 8th century BC.
Oh really?
Hittite Rule – 1,500- 1,450 B.C.E.
Development of ceramics and a distinctive script
Egyptian Rule – 1450 – 1000 B.C.E.
Egyptian domination of the island
City States – 1,200 – 1,000 B.C.E.
Limassol lies between the remains of two city states Amathus (19 km away from Limassol) and Khourion (19 km west of Limassol)
Amathus part of which lies under water had been settled since the Neolithic period but finds of this time are rare. Excavations show Geometric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods of settlement. You can see a walled acropolis, lower town, port, and necropolis.
Khourion is an important ancient city-kingdom and one of the most spectacular archaeological sites on the island.
http://www.limassol.eu/
When is that Greek invasion of Cyprus before 1200 BC?
Your sources contradict themselves. One say that Hitties temporarily annexed Cyprus during the rule of Tudhaliya IV (who rained between 1237 BCE and 1209 BCE), and the other one talks about "Hittite Rule – 1,500- 1,450 B.C.E."
Shows how reliable your sources are
There was never a "Greek Invasion" of Cyprus. Greeks peacefully settled in Cyprus at around 1400B.C. No annexation, no invasion, no empire building. Those are the things that the temporary foreign rulers did, not the Greeks.
That was the conquest of Cyprus by 3rd Hittite Kingdom u illiterate fool.
Insan, not only you are illiterate, but you are also irrelevant with the history of our island. Let the history of our island to us. If any Egyptians or Hittites want to discuss this with us they are welcome, but you as a Turk you have nothing to do with the ancient history of our island.
If you want you can tell us what your own people were doing in 1400BC somewhere in central Asia. Or you know nothing about it?