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[Get Real!]

“Ancient DNA Analysis of 8000 B.C. Near Eastern Farmers Supports an Early Neolithic Pioneer Maritime Colonization of Mainland Europe through Cyprus and the Aegean Islands”

So in 8000BC people had good enough technology to hop from island to island to colonize them but in 1500BC such thing was impossible? Don't you understand that you are contradicting yourself?

But your beloved theory doesn’t talk about hopping from island to island… but a “mass-colonization of Mycenaeans” to Cyprus that resulted in native Cypriots either vanishing like magic or even being bedazzled by the newcomers into submission!

It's a true fairytale with magic and everything...

Greece can do no wrong....when they colonize Cyprus, Cypriots at the time were lining the streets with rose pedals...but when others were colonizing their view it was brutal...

their inability to understand every colonization was brutal is unbelievable...

There was no Greek colonization because Cyprus during that exact period was a superpower and the king of the Mediterranean along with Egyptians and Assyrians. Anyone attempting to land on Cyprus at her height would’ve been enslaved or murdered.

Nobody could take over Cyprus in 1200BC or 1500BC because they were just too powerful let alone by a bunch of uneducated nobodies from the Balkans!

Both the Bible and the ancient Egyptians confirm Cyprus' status during that period.

[boomerang]

“Ancient DNA Analysis of 8000 B.C. Near Eastern Farmers Supports an Early Neolithic Pioneer Maritime Colonization of Mainland Europe through Cyprus and the Aegean Islands”

So in 8000BC people had good enough technology to hop from island to island to colonize them but in 1500BC such thing was impossible? Don't you understand that you are contradicting yourself?

But your beloved theory doesn’t talk about hopping from island to island… but a “mass-colonization of Mycenaeans” to Cyprus that resulted in native Cypriots either vanishing like magic or even being bedazzled by the newcomers into submission!

It's a true fairytale with magic and everything...

Greece can do no wrong....when they colonize Cyprus, Cypriots at the time were lining the streets with rose pedals...but when others were colonizing their view it was brutal...

their inability to understand every colonization was brutal is unbelievable...

There was no Greek colonization because Cyprus during that exact period was a superpower and the king of the Mediterranean along with Egyptians and Assyrians. Anyone attempting to land on Cyprus at her height would’ve been enslaved or murdered.

Nobody could take over Cyprus in 1200BC or 1500BC because they were just too powerful let alone by a bunch of uneducated nobodies from the Balkans!

Both the Bible and the ancient Egyptians confirm Cyprus' status during that period.

at some point in time we were colonized...I refer to Greece not as a country then, but as people coming from the territory we call Greece today...I realise there was no Greece back then...still this does not alter the fact that colonizations were brutal...

[repulsewarrior]

...as you can see, Nick, EOKA is not much of a preoccupation, in and of itself. Cypriots today prefer to consider what are the facts in the Hellenic world, Greece and Athens may not be its center, what must be thought of in Crete, is discussed openly in Cyprus. in my mind it is a healthy debate, one which few cultures can enjoy, and in Cyprus an issue of greater importance, what with a Heritance that is older than Ancient Greece itself, let alone Lord Byron's dream.

[miltiades]

I lived through the EOKA period and at the age of 12 I took the Oath and joined ANE, the youth movement of EOKA which was used as the courier service for EOKA.
AKEL strongly opposed the struggle which to this day I consider as noble and at the time justified since the colonialists flatly refused to offer independence to the Cypriot people.

Every nation has a moral duty to demand its freedom, we did precisely this. The goal was ENOSIS, years later I vehemently opposed this. At the time of the struggle we had only Greece to focus upon, although we had very little contact with Greeks and Greece.

With hindsight I can say that had the struggle concentrated on Independence and embraced our T/C compatriots perhaps today, events would have been different.

[Sotos]

There was no Greek colonization because Cyprus during that exact period was a superpower

[Flying Horse]

Hmmmm all this talk of colonisation and native Cypriots ....

Spartans. Peloponnese.....How come they set up outposts and settled in Morphou then? This never happened then?

In ancient times, people from the Greece, specifically near the area of Argos Zotean, migrated to the area. They built a sanctuary devoted to the mythical god Apollo of Zodeion. Thus their settlement attained the first name of Zoteia (as can be seen in older maps of the area). It was in this very same place that the monastery of Archangel Michael was later built. It was also here that Saint Eirinikos (or Arniakos,Saint Irenaeus, one of the "three hundred" Alaman saints of Cyprus ) is famed to have gone into monastic life in early Christian years.

Blahhh, blahaa, stories of Kings and Queens of ancient times connected with the area. Must have come from somewhere!

As for EOKA... Ive met one gentleman who served. Not a Neanderthal thug. A wise and kind hearted man. Not the sort of person you would expect going on some stories.. I'm undecided about another person, EOKA=B. I won't speak or assume unwisely of the dead.

[boomerang]

it would have been wise to put some dates or a link

[Get Real!]

There was no Greek colonization because Cyprus during that exact period was a superpower

Time for your Cyprus education again Sotos... you said you had a "Greek education" and that's the very problem with you. You've been educated about the wrong country!

Letters from the King of Alasiya (Cyprus) to the paharoh of Egypt:
http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/alasiya.htm

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

Prominent countries/rulers during that period: (PS: Don't bother looking for Greece or Greeks in here... they didn't exist. )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarna_let ... eir_rulers

Amarna letters (tablets from around 1350BC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarna_letters

[kurupetos]

There was no Greek colonization because Cyprus during that exact period was a superpower

Time for your Cyprus education again Sotos... you said you had a "Greek education" and that's the very problem with you. You've been educated about the wrong country!

Letters from the King of Alasiya (Cyprus) to the paharoh of Egypt:
http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/alasiya.htm

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

Prominent countries/rulers during that period: (PS: Don't bother looking for Greece or Greeks in here... they didn't exist. )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarna_let ... eir_rulers

Amarna letters (tablets from around 1350BC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarna_letters

Interesting links GR! Your first link is Israeli and the rest are useless wiki entries.

What happened to reliable sources? Are they all pro-Greek?

[Get Real!]

Interesting links GR! Your first link is Israeli and the rest are useless wiki entries.

What happened to reliable sources? Are they all pro-Greek?

The Armarna tablets are well known except in Greece and Cyprus where they are strictly forbidden because they spoil the Mycenaean myth!

http://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/amarnaletters.html

http://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/EA35.html

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/top ... na-Letters

Unfortunately Cyprus’ hijacked ministry of education is not teaching our children the true history of Cyprus.