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[Oracle]

The Persians probably made the same mistake as Bananiot!

[Bananiot]

They were all over your village, weren't they?

[Oracle]

Indeed, after the final defeat of the Persian by the Greeks of Cyprus, the Persians signed an agreement, in my village's Co-Op, to never again attack Greece (from Asia Minor, through Cyprus to Sicily etc. etc. etc.)!

[Oracle]

This snippet is from the Cyprus Embassy website ....

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.

[Malapapa]

There was no Italy back then, nor Greece.

You mean Mussolini was a deluded fool?

[Paphitis]

There was no Italy back then, nor Greece.

You mean Mussolini was a deluded fool?

No! The Roman Empire actually existed as did many Greek States before that!

[Malapapa]

There was no Italy back then, nor Greece.

You mean Mussolini was a deluded fool?

No!

Thanks for setting the record straight about Il Duce. History has certainly given me the wrong impression of this expansionist dictator and key creator of fascism.

The Roman Empire actually existed as did many Greek States before that!

I must say reading your posts today is turning out to be an education.

[Paphitis]

There was no Italy back then, nor Greece.

You mean Mussolini was a deluded fool?

No!

Thanks for setting the record straight about Il Duce. History has certainly given me the wrong impression of this expansionist dictator and key creator of fascism.

The Roman Empire actually existed as did many Greek States before that!

I must say reading your posts today is turning out to be an education.

Just making sure that you are able to comprehend historical fact from fantasy, because your revisionist antics no absolutely no bounds, so people like me are forced to reiterate even the most basic of historical facts which most people learn at Primary School, but for some unforeseen reason has eluded your feeble mind.

[Linichka]

Spelling is not your forte, Rash-Man. Do step down from your lofty heights to perform a bit of basic proofreading.

[Paphitis]

Spelling is not your forte, Rash-Man. Do step down from your lofty heights to perform a bit of basic proofreading.

Well if it ain't Bichka!

Oops, sorry. I meant to say Linichka! Lucky I proofread my post!