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Greek Cypriots


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    • Cypriot Greeks
    • Cypriots, Greek
    • Ellēnokyprioi
    • Greeks, Cypriot
    • Hellēnes Kyprioi
    • Hellēnokyprioi
    • Kıbrıs Rumları
    • Kıbrıs Yunanları
    • Kıbrıslı Rumlar
    • Kıbrıslı Yunanlar
  • Sources

    • found: Work cat.: Paraskos, Stass. The mythology of Cyprus, 2016:p. i (born into a very poor peasant farming family in Cyprus in the 1930s; by 1981 ... he was no longer the peasant boy from Larnaca, but an ambitious artist and art teacher) p. ii (Greek Cypriots; he was a proud Cypriot, but he was also a proud Greek)
    • found: Cyprus and its people, 1998:table of contents (Turkish and Greek Cypriots; Greek Cypriot economic and political culture; Greek Cypriot refugees)
    • found: Britannica online, Oct. 17, 2016(under Cyprus: The people of Cyprus represent two main ethnic groups, Greek and Turkish. The Greek Cypriots, who constitute nearly four-fifths of the population, descended from a mixture of aboriginal inhabitants and immigrants from the Peloponnese who colonized Cyprus starting about 1200 bc and assimilated subsequent settlers up to the 16th century)
    • found: The world factbook, via WWW, Oct. 17, 2016(under Cyprus: Greek Cypriot majority and Turkish Cypriot minority; Greek Cypriots control the only internationally recognized government on the island)
    • found: Divided Cyprus, ©2006:p. 2 (The British colonial period witnessed the rise of Greek and Turkish nationalism in Cyprus. Greek Cypriots strove for enosis, the union of Cyprus with Greece, while Turkish Cypriots initially expressed preference for the continuation of British rule and later demanded taksim, the partition of the island) pp. 3-4 (The Greek Cypriot-controlled Republic of Cyprus has remained the only internationally recognized state in Cyprus, while the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, established in 1983, has not gained international recognition)
    • found: Wikipedia, Oct. 17, 2016:Greek Cypriots (Greek Cypriots (Greek: Ελληνοκύπριοι = Hellēnokyprioi; Turkish: Kıbrıs Rumları) are the ethnic Greek population of Cyprus, forming the island's largest ethnolinguistic community at 78% of the population. Greek Cypriots are mostly members of the Church of Cyprus, an autocephalous Greek Orthodox Church within the wider communion of Orthodox Christianity. In regard to the 1960 Constitution of Cyprus, the term also includes Arabic-speaking Maronites, Armenians and Latin Rite Catholics ("Latins"), who were given the option of being included in one or other of the two constituent communities (Greek or Turkish) and voted to join the Greek Cypriot community.) Greek version under Έλληνες Κύπριοι (Έλληνες Κύπριοι = Hellēnes Kyprioi, Ελληνοκύπριοι = Hellēnokyprioi) Turkish version under Kıbrıs Rumları (Kıbrıs Rumları [Greek Cypriots] or Kıbrıs Yunanları [Cypriot Greeks])
    • found: 2004549448: Chatzēphōteinos, K. Nisaphi pia! : Mikrasiates, Krētikoi, Tourkokrētikoi, Hellēnokyprioi, Tourkokyprioi, 2004.
    • found: OCLC, Oct. 17, 2016(Lordos, Alexandros. Oi Ellēnokyprioi mprosta stē lysē tou kypriakou, 2004; Katō apo ton idio ourano : 25 Ellēnokyprioi kai Tourkokyprioi poiētes gia koinē patrida, 1980; Sōkratous, K. Hoi Hellēnes Kyprioi homēroi, 196-?; Papasavvas, S. The immigration and settlement of Cypriot Greeks in Australia, 1998; Tsiplakou, S. Linguistic attitudes and emerging hyperdialectism in a diglossic setting, young Cypriot Greeks on their language, ©2011)
    • found: Email from Mary St. Germain, Head, Near East Section, Univ. of Washington Libraries, Oct. 13, 2016(Greek Cypriots in Turkish = Kıbrıslı Rumlar)
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    • 2016-10-17: new
    • 2022-01-31: revised
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