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Prehistoric, Bronze Age and ancient Cyprus

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  1. Akrotiri-Aetokremnos on the south coast of Cyprus is important for which discovery?
  2. Under which name was Cyprus most probably known in Egyptian and Near Eastern records of the Late Bronze Age, when it exported copper?
  3. Enkomi, near modern Famagusta, flourished in the Late Bronze Age as what kind of site?
  4. Which script did the ancient Cypriots use to write Greek, alongside the Greek alphabet, until the Hellenistic period?
  5. A stele of the Assyrian king Sargon II, found at Kition (Larnaca) in 1845, records what about the Cypriot kings around 707 BC?
  6. Which Greek hero, returning from the Trojan War, is traditionally said to have founded Salamis in Cyprus?
  7. Which king of Salamis led the Cypriot revolt against the Persians around 498 BC, during the Ionian Revolt?
  8. In 306 BC a naval battle off Salamis in Cyprus was won by Demetrius Poliorcetes. Whose fleet did he defeat?
  9. Under Ptolemaic and early Roman rule, which city served as the capital of Cyprus?
  10. Which goddess was worshipped in the most famous sanctuary of ancient Cyprus, at Palaepaphos (Kouklia)?
  11. Which Cypriot city-kingdom had a large Phoenician population and a temple of Astarte?

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