Top 10 Top 10 Historical Figures
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1. Evagoras of Salamis
Evagoras (410–374 BC), king of the city-state of Salamis, conquered much of Cyprus, but was defeated when rival city Amathous allied itself with the Persian Empire.
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2. Alexander the Great
Cyprus welcomed Alexander as a liberator from Persian dominance in 325 BC.
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3. St Barnabas
St Barnabas, with the Apostle Paul, brought Christianity to Cyprus in 45 AD.
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4. Nicephoros Phocas
The Byzantine emperor (963–9) drove the Saracen corsairs from Cyprus.
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5. Richard the Lionheart
When the ship carrying Richard’s fiancée was driven by storms to Limassol, the English king (1157–99) seized Cyprus (see Historic Limassol).
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6. Guy de Lusignan
Driven from the throne of Jerusalem, Guy (d.1194) bought rulership of Cyprus.
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7. Peter I
The Lusignan ruler (1358– 69) harried the eastern Mediterranean until assassinated by a cabal of his own nobles.
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8. Selim the Sot
The Muslim sultan drove the Venetians from Cyprus after a 10-month siege.
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9. Hadjigeorgiakis Kornesios
This intercessor between the feuding Greeks and the Turks became the richest man in Cyprus, until he was beheaded in 1809.
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10. Archbishop Makarios
Makarios (1913–77) led the independence campaign and was Cyprus’s first president.
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