STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
Nicosia Beyond Barriers: Voices from a Divided City
Potent visions of unity in diversity from Cypriot capital
THE Cypriot capital Nicosia has been continuously inhabited for over 4,500 years and it is first mentioned in a clay tablet dating back to 672BC in the era of its Assyrian ruler, King Esarhaddon.
On the edge of Europe and Africa, its location on the trade routes crisscrossing the Mediterranean have given it a unique ethnography.
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