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[antifon]

hope that don't mean we got to treat u with kid gloves....

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Pretty nifty for an ancient dude!
Thanks

http://antifon.blogspot.com

[ZoC]

errr... almost, antifon. keep practicing. i'll make an unqualified cypriot of u yet.

[Piratis]

Cyprus is inhabited by a majority of Greeks for over 3000 years.

All your theories are built upon and hang by this fallacious fine thread but the truth of the matter is that there’s not a shred of evidence to back this unfounded assumption!

I challenge you Piratis, to present credible conclusive evidence to back this.

GR, I could show you the ancient Greek cities in Cyprus, with Greek language set in stone all over the island for 1000s of years, with archaeological evidence showing that Cyprus followed the same religion as all other Greeks (Olympus Gods then Christian Orthodox) etc etc. Evidence that go so far back that very few others could do for their own lands (for example, where have the Turks or the English been 3000 years ago?). But as usual you will dismiss everything that doesn't agree with your nonsense.

So I will not bother, because the only ones who need convincing about this simple fact are people who are uneducated or intentionally anti-Greek, and those will never be convinced.

I leave you with the following video to remind you of the biggest celebrations that ever took place in Cyprus:

[Get Real!]

Cyprus is inhabited by a majority of Greeks for over 3000 years.

All your theories are built upon and hang by this fallacious fine thread but the truth of the matter is that there’s not a shred of evidence to back this unfounded assumption!

I challenge you Piratis, to present credible conclusive evidence to back this.

GR, I could show you the ancient Greek cities in Cyprus, with Greek language set in stone all over the island for 1000s of years, with archaeological evidence showing that Cyprus followed the same religion as all other Greeks (Olympus Gods then Christian Orthodox) etc etc. Evidence that go so far back that very few others could do for their own lands (for example, where have the Turks or the English been 3000 years ago?). But as usual you will dismiss everything that doesn't agree with your nonsense.

But the “Greek” language is not Greek! It's Cypriot remember?

So I will not bother, because the only ones who need convincing about this simple fact are people who are uneducated or intentionally anti-Greek, and those will never be convinced.

Please don't give up on me yet... there is still hope to make me a good little evzone with the skirt and pompom shoes! Btw, what size do you wear?

I leave you with the following video to remind you of the biggest celebrations that ever took place in Cyprus:

Thank God for democracy in Cyprus that allows your treasonous minority to have such festivities!

[Nikitas]

GR, do a similar "investigation" and tell us at which date you start to see a Germany, Italy, Turkey, Austria etc on the map. When was the United Kingdom formed as national entity?

Most nation states have a founding date which has nothing to do with their national existence and identity. Germany being the most classic example of national founding by blood and fire which is still an ongoing process.

As a widely traveled man you must have been to Italy, where every town has a street or piazza honoring Garibaldi, the man who united Italy in the mid 19th century, ie after Greece.

But you are hellbent on establishing the republic of Chorokitia, at some point in the distant future and have no time for detailed studies.

[Get Real!]

GR, do a similar "investigation" and tell us at which date you start to see a Germany, Italy, Turkey, Austria etc on the map. When was the United Kingdom formed as national entity?

But nobody writes about “Ancient Germany” or goes on about an “Ancient Italy”, because everyone knows that no such thing existed. Now explain to me how anyone can refer to an “Ancient Greece” given that Greece did not exist until the 1820s!

[ZoC]

GR, do a similar "investigation" and tell us at which date you start to see a Germany, Italy, Turkey, Austria etc on the map. When was the United Kingdom formed as national entity?

But nobody writes about “Ancient Germany” or goes on about an “Ancient Italy”, because everyone knows that no such thing existed. Now explain to me how anyone can refer to an “Ancient Greece” given that Greece did not exist until the 1820s!

egyptians do... (but, like the cypriots, their still mummies boys)

[wyoming cowboy]

Leave anyone free to define themselves whatever they want you can not force people to be Greek If they arent in the first place and an island that was inhabited by so many races thousands of years its unlikely for the the majority to be one race (Ie GREEK).Its Common Sense. Just If they accepted to speak Greek language it does not mean they are Greek.

I agree with you Mikiko, but why disparage the culture and the ones that call themselves Greek?

[wyoming cowboy]

The Myths are collapsing KLIK ......

I am refering long before that (Ancient History) as history can not be interpreted selectively and skip parts to suit your own vesrion:

Evagoras was a Cypriot fighting for independence:

Cyprus gained independence for some time around 669 but was conquered by Egypt under Amasis (570-526/525). The island was conquered by the Persians around 545 BC. A Persian palace has been excavated in the territory of Marion on the North coast near Soli. The inhabitants took part in the Ionian rising. At the beginning of the 4th century BC, Euagoras I, King of Salamis, took control of the whole island and tried to gain independence from Persia. Another uprising took place in 350 but was crushed by Artaxerxes in 344.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Cyprus

Ask your professors to teach you what the term Independence mean. Also it had a short period of independence before Evagoras was in charge but you are very selective when reading an article . This is very common its becoming a modern syndrome to skip events we dont want to hear....

I repeat again Enosis claim was very recent compared to the long trouble history of the island and not even aproved by Greece . These are the facts! I know you will answer YES BUT BUT BUT to find all sort of excuses YES BUT ..........These are rubish thrown in to the dustbin...

Mikiko, you sound like you have been influenced by some Turks or the English guy who wrote "Bitter Lemons" during the 1950's. Who are you to tell me a, Greek Cypriot, what I am and what my history is. Micro analysing the situation you will find identical customs and traditions from the northern Greeks of Greece,Spartan Greeks,etcetc..., to the island Greeks (Crete,Rhodes,Dodecanese Islands, Pontic Greeks, to Cyprus and beyond) and these customs and traditions can be traced back to the Ancient Greeks and if I may add are still unique to all these Hellenes.

[Piratis]

Cyprus is inhabited by a majority of Greeks for over 3000 years.

All your theories are built upon and hang by this fallacious fine thread but the truth of the matter is that there’s not a shred of evidence to back this unfounded assumption!

I challenge you Piratis, to present credible conclusive evidence to back this.

GR, I could show you the ancient Greek cities in Cyprus, with Greek language set in stone all over the island for 1000s of years, with archaeological evidence showing that Cyprus followed the same religion as all other Greeks (Olympus Gods then Christian Orthodox) etc etc. Evidence that go so far back that very few others could do for their own lands (for example, where have the Turks or the English been 3000 years ago?). But as usual you will dismiss everything that doesn't agree with your nonsense.

But the “Greek” language is not Greek! It's Cypriot remember?

So I will not bother, because the only ones who need convincing about this simple fact are people who are uneducated or intentionally anti-Greek, and those will never be convinced.

Please don't give up on me yet... there is still hope to make me a good little evzone with the skirt and pompom shoes! Btw, what size do you wear?

I leave you with the following video to remind you of the biggest celebrations that ever took place in Cyprus:

Thank God for democracy in Cyprus that allows your treasonous minority to have such festivities!

No, I don't remember that Greek language is Cypriot. What are you talking about?

The majority of Cypriots are Greek. Just the people that were out celebrating in the streets that night (a fraction of GCs) are more than any minority in Cyprus.