Seen through a Brussels-based prism, it is easy to forget just how far to the east Cyprus is.
Lebanon, Syria and Israel are all within a couple of hundred kilometres. To its north is Turkey, to its south Egypt. To fit on euro coins, Cyprus had to be moved several degrees further west.
There is a price to pay for being such a strategically well-placed island.
Down through the years the island has had many masters. In ancient times it knew Assyrian, Egyptian, Persian, Greek a...
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