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Welcome to Hotel Sempati's
Northern
Cyprus
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Introduction to Northern Cyprus
Those who have visited Northern Cyprus will remember an
island of golden beaches, brilliant weather, mountain
forests, ancient castles, and unbleached villages. But most
memorable are the warm, friendly smiles of the Turkish
Cypriot people. Northern Cyprus is unique in that tourists,
thus keeping its local character and charm, have not
overrun it. It is a small country, only about 120 miles from
east to west and about 15 miles from North to south.
However, the variety, in terms of topography, flora and
surround mountain villages, offers all the modern
facilities of a European town whereas the villages of the
Karpas region seem to have been left behind in offer
visitors much to feast their eyes on. History is major theme
in Cyprus the island having bed repeatedly invaded
throughout its
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turbulent history, and the legacies of the last continue
even to this day. But despite the past, Northern Cyprus is
peaceful place, which has seemingly or so inhabitants have
more time than they know what to do with.
So if you are visiting Northern Cyprus, don't being a hurry,
and prepare yourself for a relaxing break from the gring of
modern life.
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Cyprus Past
It is not possible to say when first inhabitants of Cyprus
lived, but is beloved possible that long as long ago 8.500
B.C there were settlements of Cyprus.
Cyprus had many names but the name we use now is believed to
have come from the word copper of which there was, and
possibly still is, an abundance of on the (The green for
henna) of which there was abundance. No one knows for sure.
Cyprus has had a troubled history. The abundance of cooper,
timbers and West resulted in repeated invasions changed if
the annexation to Rome in 58 B.C Egyptians, Persian, and
Greeks, colonized Cyprus. In 43 AD Christianity came to
Cyprus became part of the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire.
And so it remained until 1191 when Richard the Lion heart, on
his way to the Holly Land to fight the Richard sold the
island to Knights Templar for 100,000 Bezants. The island to
who sold to the French nobleman Guy de Louisianan. The often
oppressive effectively reducing Cypriots to serfdom. In
1489 the Louisianan King James died Leaving the Kingdom to his
Venetian wife a military base and built fortifications
all over the island. Cypriots at the time, that Venetian
rule was so unpleasant that when the ottomans arrived in
Cyprus in 1571 the locals felt as if they had been liberated
from slavery.
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