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The House of Lusignan ( / ˈluːzɪn.jɒn / LOO-zin-yon; French: [lyziɲɑ̃]) was a royal house of French origin, which at various times ruled several principalities in Europe and the Levant, including the kingdoms of Jerusalem, Cyprus, and Armenia, from the 12th through the 15th centuries during the Middle Ages.
After his studies at the École nationale des chartes, Louis de Mas Latrie became an historian and specialized on Cyprus during the Middle Ages. He made several voyages there and is now considered by his peers as the founder of history and archaeology of the island. In 1848, he succeeded Jacques-Joseph Champollion as professor of diplomatics at ...
Louis of Cyprus. Louis of Savoy ( Italian: Ludovico; 1436–37 ; April 1482), Count of Geneva from 1460, became King of Cyprus in 1459 upon his second marriage to Charlotte of Cyprus, reigning together with and in the right of his wife until 1464. He was the second son and namesake of Louis, Duke of Savoy and his wife, Anne of Lusignan, [1 ...
Location. 20 Patriarchou Grigoriou Street Nicosia, Cyprus. Owner. Department of Antiquities (Cyprus) Website. www.mcw.gov.cy. The Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios Mansion is situated near the Archbishopric, in the neighbourhood of Saint Antonios in Nicosia, Cyprus, where the wealthy notables of the Greek community traditionally used to live.
Paphos Archaeological Park. Coordinates: 34°45.34′N 32°24.25′E. Paphos Archaeological Park (also Kato Pafos Archaeological Park) contains the major part of the important ancient Greek and Roman city and is located in Paphos, southwest Cyprus. The park, still under excavation, is within the Nea Pafos ("New Paphos") section of the coastal city.
Description. 885–1192. Lords of Lusignan. Barry of ten argent and azure. Motto: Pour loyauté maintenir "To maintain loyalty" [1] 1192–1393. Lords of Lusignan, Counts of La Marche, and Angoulême. Barry silver and azure eight rooms, a lion gules armed langued and crowned with gold stitching on the whole. 1221–1250.
The earliest site of putative human activity on Cyprus is Aetokremnos, situated on the south coast. Fossilised animal remains and lithic tools indicate that seasonal hunter-gatherers were active on the island from around 12,000 BC. Extinction of the endemic to Cyprus pigmy hippos and pigmy elephants, likely due to human presence.
Bloody Christmas ( Turkish: Kanlı Noel ), in Turkish Cypriot and Turkish historiography, refers to the resumption of intercommunal violence between the Greek Cypriots and the Turkish Cypriots during the Cyprus crisis of 1963–64, on the night of 20–21 December 1963 and the subsequent period of island-wide violence [ 1] amounting to civil ...