Cypriot History and Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Cyprus with the correct year: In ______, the remains of an 8-month-old cat were discovered buried with its human owner at a Neolithic archeological site in Cypru…
  2. Complete the sentence about Byzantine Cyprus with the correct year: In the spring of ______, the island was attacked by Raynald of Châtillon and Thoros II.
  3. Complete the sentence about Byzantine Cyprus with the correct year: Proclaiming himself "emperor", Isaac Komnenos established control over the island in ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Byzantine Cyprus with the correct year: Storms plaguing the Third Crusade wrecked two ships of Richard I of England's fleet off Cyprus in ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Richard I of England with the correct year: Richard was born on 8 September ______, probably at Beaumont Palace, in Oxford, England, son of King Henry II of England and Ele…
  6. Complete the sentence about Venetian Cyprus with the correct year: In ______, James II of Cyprus of the House of Lusignan became King of Cyprus.
  7. 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 ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Cyprus with the correct year: In ______, the first year of Venetian control, Ottomans attacked the Karpass Peninsula, pillaging and taking captives to be sold into…
  9. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Cyprus with the correct year: In the summer of ______, the Ottomans struck again, but this time with a full-scale invasion rather than a raid.
  10. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Cyprus with the correct year: In ______ the Venetians left Cyprus, removing the influence of the Roman Catholic Church.
  11. Complete the sentence about Cyprus Convention with the correct year: In ______, a new harbour at Famagusta was completed, increasing the importance of Cyprus as a strategic naval outpost protecting th…
  12. Complete the sentence about Cyprus Emergency with the correct year: The Cyprus Emergency ended in ______ with the signature of the London-Zürich Agreements, establishing the Republic of Cyprus as an i…
  13. Complete the sentence about Cyprus Emergency with the correct year: In October ______, Greek Cypriots rebelled against British rule and destroyed government property.
  14. Complete the sentence about Cyprus Emergency with the correct year: In ______, the Church of Cyprus held a referendum for Greek Cypriots on the subject of union with Greece.
  15. Complete the sentence about EOKA with the correct year: Initially, the Greek Cypriots welcomed British rule, as they were aware that the British had returned the Ionian Islands to Greece in ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about EOKA with the correct year: In ______, the British offered Cyprus to Greece several times in exchange for Greece's participation in World War I.
  17. Complete the sentence about EOKA with the correct year: By ______, the Greek Cypriots' opposition to British rule had increased, seeing that neither the British investment nor Enosis had materialized.
  18. Complete the sentence about Georgios Grivas with the correct year: In ______, he married Vasiliki Deka, the daughter of an Athenian pharmacist.
  19. Complete the sentence about Georgios Grivas with the correct year: When the Greco-Italian War broke out, Grivas was deployed to the Albanian front in December ______, and served as Chief of Staff of t…
  20. Complete the sentence about Georgios Grivas with the correct year: In ______, he retired from the Hellenic Army on his own request with subsequent attempts to enter politics being unsuccessful.
  21. Complete the sentence about Makarios III with the correct year: In ______, aged 13, he was admitted to Kykkos Monastery as a novice.
  22. Complete the sentence about Makarios III with the correct year: At age 20 he was sent to the Pancyprian Gymnasium in Nicosia where he completed his secondary education in ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about Makarios III with the correct year: In ______, while still studying at Boston, he was elected Bishop of Kition against his will.
  24. Complete the sentence about Makarios III with the correct year: On 18 September ______, Makarios, 37 years old, was elected Archbishop of Cyprus.
  25. Complete the sentence about Republic of Cyprus with the correct year: Following nationalist violence in the 1950s, Cyprus was granted independence in ______.
  26. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Cyprus with the correct year: The Constitution of the Republic of Cyprus has been in force for 66 years and it has been amended twenty-two times and 31 Arti…
  27. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Cyprus with the correct year: In ______, however, the Cypriot government became dominated by Greeks.
  28. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Cyprus with the correct year: The constitution of the country collapsed, however, in ______ due to a dispute between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
  29. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Cyprus with the correct year: Following the Turkish invasion of ______ the state acts as a surrogate for the properties of Turkish Cypriots that moved to th…
  30. Complete the sentence about Cyprus crisis of 1963–64 with the correct year: Fazil Küçük in ______ had already proposed Cyprus be divided in two at the 35° parallel.
  31. Complete the sentence about Cyprus crisis of 1963–64 with the correct year: On 22 October ______ Sir Hugh Mackintosh Foot replaced Sir John Harding as the British Governor of Cyprus.
  32. Complete the sentence about 1974 Cypriot coup d'état with the correct year: A military coup d'état was executed by the Cypriot National Guard on 15 July ______ with Greek support.
  33. Complete the sentence about 1974 Cypriot coup d'état with the correct year: The Republic of Cyprus was established in ______ with the London and Zurich Agreements, and the Greek Cypriots and Turkish C…
  34. Complete the sentence about 1974 Cypriot coup d'état with the correct year: After ______, the Greek government tried to control Makarios' policies, and following his unwillingness to obey Athens, atte…
  35. Complete the sentence about Turkish invasion of Cyprus with the correct year: Turkey invaded Cyprus on 20 July ______ in an operation that progressed in two phases over the following month.
  36. Complete the sentence about Turkish invasion of Cyprus with the correct year: Following the breakdown of peace talks, Turkish forces enlarged their original beachhead in August ______ resulting in the…
  37. Complete the sentence about Turkish invasion of Cyprus with the correct year: The ceasefire line from August ______ became the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus and is commonly referred to as the G…
  38. Complete the sentence about Turkish invasion of Cyprus with the correct year: Article 20 of the Treaty of Lausanne in ______ marked the end of the Turkish claim to the island.
  39. Complete the sentence about Northern Cyprus with the correct year: After gaining independence from the United Kingdom in ______, Cyprus was dominated by intercommunal violence between the island's Gre…
  40. Complete the sentence about Northern Cyprus with the correct year: In ______ President Makarios proposed unilateral changes to the constitution, via 13 amendments.
  41. Complete the sentence about Northern Cyprus with the correct year: On 25 April ______, the SCCC decided that Makarios's 13 amendments were illegal.
  42. Complete the sentence about Cyprus dispute with the correct year: The problem entered its current phase in the aftermath of the ______ Turkish invasion of Cyprus, which resulted in the Turks occupying…
  43. Complete the sentence about Cyprus dispute with the correct year: Although the invasion was triggered by the ______ coup d'état, Turkish forces refused to depart after the legitimate government was re…
  44. Complete the sentence about Cyprus dispute with the correct year: The United Nations Security Council Resolution 550 of ______ calls for members of the United Nations to not recognize the Turkish Repu…
  45. Complete the sentence about Annan Plan with the correct year: My Special Adviser helped to guide the discussions and by mid-______ he was making concrete suggestions to assist the parties to build bri…
  46. Complete the sentence about Glafcos Clerides with the correct year: Widely respected for his political and legal acumen, he remained an influential figure in Cypriot politics until his death in ______…
  47. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______ his airplane was shot down over Germany and he was captured.
  48. Complete the sentence about Glafcos Clerides with the correct year: Following the war, he studied law at King's College London and earned an LLB degree in ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Glafcos Clerides with the correct year: In July ______, he was elected to the House of Representatives which, in turn, elected him as its first speaker.
  50. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Due to this activity, he was forced to leave the UK in June ______ and went to Greece.
  51. Complete the sentence about George Vasiliou with the correct year: Vassiliou was born on 20 May ______ in Famagusta, British Cyprus, to a Greek Cypriot family.
  52. Complete the sentence about Tassos Papadopoulos with the correct year: Papadopoulos returned to Cyprus on 20 March ______, ten days before the start of EOKA's armed struggle against British colonialis…
  53. Complete the sentence about Dimitris Christofias with the correct year: Demetris Christofias was born on 29 August ______ in Kato Dikomo, British Cyprus, to a Greek Cypriot family.
  54. Complete the sentence about Nicos Anastasiades with the correct year: Nicos Anastasiades was born in the village of Pera Pedi on 27 September ______ to a Greek Cypriot family.
  55. Complete the sentence about Nicos Anastasiades with the correct year: The law firm has denied any wrongdoing and Anastasiades has said that he has had no active involvement in the firm since ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Nikos Christodoulides with the correct year: Nikos Christodoulides was born in Geroskipou on 6 December ______, the son of a mother from Geroskipou and a father from Choulo…
  57. Complete the sentence about Rauf Denktaş with the correct year: In ______ Denktaş served as a member of the Consultative Assembly in search of self-government for Cyprus and became a member of the Tur…
  58. Complete the sentence about Rauf Denktaş with the correct year: In ______, Cyprus won independence from Britain, and the Republic of Cyprus was established.
  59. Complete the sentence about Rauf Denktaş with the correct year: Then the paramilitary action against the Turks began in December ______, after which Turkish-Cypriots forcefully withdrew from governmen…
  60. Complete the sentence about Rauf Denktaş with the correct year: In the ______ vice presidential elections he replaced Fazıl Küçük.
  61. Complete the sentence about Mehmet Ali Talat with the correct year: Talat was inaugurated on 25 April ______, succeeding retiring leader Rauf Denktaş.
  62. Complete the sentence about Mehmet Ali Talat with the correct year: Talat was elected as the leader of the CTP on 14 January ______, succeeding Özker Özgür.
  63. Complete the sentence about Mustafa Akıncı with the correct year: An architect by profession, Akıncı in ______ became the first elected mayor of the Nicosia Turkish Municipality in Northern Cyprus, at…
  64. Complete the sentence about Mustafa Akıncı with the correct year: Meanwhile, he rose to prominence and gained influence within his party, first becoming Secretary General and then leader in ______.
  65. Complete the sentence about Mustafa Akıncı with the correct year: In ______, Akıncı was elected to the Constituent Assembly of Turkish Cypriots.
  66. Complete the sentence about President of Cyprus with the correct year: The office was established by the Constitution of ______, after Cyprus gained its independence from the United Kingdom.
  67. Complete the sentence about Supreme Court of Cyprus with the correct year: The Republic of Cyprus became an independent sovereign republic with a presidential system on August 16, ______.
  68. Complete the sentence about Supreme Court of Cyprus with the correct year: Before ______, Cyprus was considered a Crown colony of the United Kingdom and was governed by English common law.
  69. Complete the sentence about Politics of Cyprus with the correct year: Founded on July 4, ______, by veteran politician Glafcos Clerides, DISY emerged from the split of the right-wing "Eniaion" into tw…
  70. Complete the sentence about Politics of Cyprus with the correct year: At its inception in ______, DIKO maintained the right-wing ideology of its parent-party, Eniaion.
  71. Complete the sentence about Politics of Cyprus with the correct year: The party has adopted a firm and hardline stance on the Cyprus problem, particularly in its strong opposition to the Annan Plan in…
  72. Complete the sentence about Cyprus National Guard with the correct year: The Cyprus army was a short-lived volunteer force from ______-4.
  73. Complete the sentence about Cyprus National Guard with the correct year: Since ______, service is mandatory for all members of the Greek Cypriot community and not only for ethnic Greek Cypriots.
  74. Complete the sentence about Cyprus National Guard with the correct year: The Cyprus Naval Command became active circa ______, following the outbreak of civil conflict between extremists within the Gre…
  75. Complete the sentence about Cyprus National Guard with the correct year: All three vessels were in service by August ______, having been purchased from a shipyard in Piraeus, Greece by a private spons…
  76. Complete the sentence about UNFICYP with the correct year: As of 31 October ______, the Mission has a strength 727 military personnel, 60 police officers, and 148 civilian staff.
  77. Complete the sentence about Turkish Cypriots with the correct year: By ______, some of these slaves helped the Mamluke army to gain access to Limassol Castle.
  78. Complete the sentence about Turkish Cypriots with the correct year: By ______, the Ottomans made their first attempt at conquering Cyprus when Sultan Bayezid II sent a fleet to conquer Famagusta.
  79. Complete the sentence about Turkish Cypriots with the correct year: The Queen of Cyprus, Caterina Cornaro, was forced to relinquish her crown to the Republic of Venice in ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about Turkish Cypriots with the correct year: Limassol stayed under Ottoman control until a peace treaty was signed in ______.
  81. Complete the sentence about Armenians in Cyprus with the correct year: Cyprus now became the easternmost bulwark of Christianity; in ______ the authorities of Famagusta invited Armenians from Cilicia…
  82. Complete the sentence about Church of Cyprus with the correct year: In ______, Makarios III was elected president of the newly established Republic of Cyprus.
  83. Complete the sentence about Aphrodite gas field with the correct year: Noble Energy received the concession to explore block 12 in October ______.
  84. Complete the sentence about Aphrodite gas field with the correct year: In August ______, Noble entered into a production-sharing agreement with the Cypriot government regarding the block's commercial…
  85. Complete the sentence about Exclusive economic zone of Cyprus with the correct year: January ______ was the first time Cyprus and Lebanon talked about an agreement that will define an EEZ boundary, ba…
  86. Complete the sentence about Exclusive economic zone of Cyprus with the correct year: The process of creating exclusive economic zones of Cyprus, Israel and Lebanon took place in Nicosia in ______ with…
  87. Complete the sentence about Cyprus pound with the correct year: The Cypriot pound was introduced in ______ and was equal in value to one pound sterling.
  88. Complete the sentence about Cyprus pound with the correct year: The Cypriot pound was replaced by the euro as official currency of the Republic of Cyprus on 1 January ______ at the irrevocable fixed e…
  89. Complete the sentence about Cyprus pound with the correct year: The Cypriot pound remained equal in value to sterling until ______, some twelve years after Cyprus gained independence from the United K…
  90. Complete the sentence about Cyprus pound with the correct year: The Council in turn established a Cyprus Currency Board in ______ to oversee the issue of Cypriot currency.
  91. Complete the sentence about Cyprus pound with the correct year: The Currency Board could issue notes and coins, initially denominated in pounds, shillings and piastres, and later, following decimaliza…
  92. Complete the sentence about Central Bank of Cyprus with the correct year: The Central Bank of Cyprus has its origins in the British Colonial Government of Cyprus, which established a Cyprus Currency B…
  93. Complete the sentence about Central Bank of Cyprus with the correct year: A decision to do this was taken in ______, and the Issuing Bank was replaced that year by the Central Bank of Cyprus.
  94. Complete the sentence about Central Bank of Cyprus with the correct year: The position was established in ______ when the Central Bank of Cyprus was established.
  95. Complete the sentence about Cyprus Stock Exchange with the correct year: In ______, it launched a common platform with the Athens Stock Exchange.
  96. Complete the sentence about Tourism in Cyprus with the correct year: Cyprus has been a full member of the World Tourism Organization since ______.
  97. Complete the sentence about Tourism in Cyprus with the correct year: The total number of tourists in Cyprus for the ______ season was 3.93 million.
  98. Complete the sentence about Cyprus Airways with the correct year: As of August ______, Cyprus Airways operated 4 Airbus A220-300 and 2 Airbus A320.
  99. Complete the sentence about Larnaca International Airport with the correct year: In ______, the UK, Greece, Israel, Poland, and Germany were highlighted as crucial markets for Cyprus, accounting for 6…
  100. Complete the sentence about Paphos International Airport with the correct year: In ______, Ryanair allocated two aircraft in Paphos with 15 new routes, offering over 80 flights a week.

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