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4 October 1971 (age 52) Sport. Sport. Athletics. Event. Pole vault. Photis Stephani (born 4 October 1971) is a Cypriot athlete. He competed in the men's pole vault at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics. [1]
www.paralimni.org.cy. Paralimni ( Greek: Παραλίμνι) is a town within the Famagusta District of Cyprus, situated on the island's east coast. Since the Turkish invasion in 1974, it has increased in size and status, primarily due to the migration of refugees fleeing from the north. Many workers in the tourist sectors of Protaras and Ayia ...
Paphos ( / ˈpæfɒs / PAF-oss; Greek: Πάφος [ˈpafos]; Turkish: Baf; [4]) is a coastal city in southwest Cyprus and the capital of Paphos District. In classical antiquity, two locations were called Paphos: Old Paphos, today known as Kouklia, [5] and New Paphos. [6] It is the fourth-largest city in the country, after Nicosia, Limassol and ...
Stephanie Solomonides (b.1982, Nicosia) is an explorer, who is the first person from Cyprus to reach both the North and the South Poles. [1] She became the first Cypriot to reach the South Pole on 29 December 2009 as part of the Kaspersky Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition. [2] [3] [1] [4] [5] She, like the seven women who were with her, was ...
Epiphanius of Salamis. Epiphanius of Salamis ( Greek: Ἐπιφάνιος; c. 310–320 – 403) was the bishop of Salamis, Cyprus, at the end of the 4th century. He is considered a saint and a Church Father by both the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches. He gained a reputation as a strong defender of orthodoxy.
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.
Stavrovouni Monastery ( Greek: Ιερά Μονή Σταυροβουνίου) is a Greek Orthodox monastery which stands on the top of a hill called Stavrovouni (Greek: Σταυροβούνι) in Cyprus; it is sometimes simply known as Stavrovouni. The monastery is one of the few places where one can see a piece of the Holy Cross.
Cyprus [f] ( / ˈsaɪprəs / ⓘ ), officially the Republic of Cyprus, [g] is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, north of the Sinai Peninsula, south of the Anatolian Peninsula, and west of the Levant. It is geographically a part of West Asia, but its cultural ties and geopolitics are overwhelmingly Southeast European.