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Thursday, July 06, 2006

Cyprus: The transition to British rule

"Cyprus: The transition to British rule

Alkan Chaglar
alkan@toplumpostasi.net

Recently I had an opportunity to visit the public archives office, where I read a series of correspondences between the first British Governor of Cyprus Garnet Wolseley and the Marquis of Salisbury the Foreign Secretary. The documents vividly recount life in Cyprus during the transition from Ottoman to Turkish rule in 1878 following the Anglo-Turkish Convention."

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