Complete the sentence about Venetian Cyprus with the correct year: The Kingdom of Cyprus had long been in decline and had been a tributary state of the Egyptian Mamluks since ______.
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Correct answer: C. 1426
Venetian Cyprus covers the period after 1489, when the island passed under Venetian control. By then the Kingdom of Cyprus had long been in decline, and it had paid tribute to the Egyptian Mamluks from 1426 onward. Queen Caterina ruled from 1474 until she was forced to cede the administration to Venice in 1489.
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