Propaganda in favour of nerkaght was also in the left-wing Greek-Cypriot “Haravgi” newspaper, as well at the Melkonian Educational Institute.
•
Visiting Cyprus in 1738, British traveller Richard Pococke mentions “very few Armenians, yet they have possession of an ancient church in Nicosia”, while for the island as a whole he makes mention to “a small number of Armenians, who are very poor, though they have an Archbishop and a convent in the country”.
•
By 1425, the renowned Magaravank – originally the Coptic monastery of Saint Makarios near Halevga (Pentadhaktylos region) – came under Armenian possession, as did sometime before 1504 the Benedictine/Carthusian nunnery of Notre Dame de Tyre or Tortosa (Sourp Asdvadzadzin) in walled Nicosia; many of its nuns had been of Armenian origin (such as princess Fimie, daughter of the Armenian King Hayton II).
Cyprus | Armenians | Turkish invasion of Cyprus | Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest | United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus | Northern Cyprus | Catholicos of All Armenians | University of Cyprus | Kingdom of Cyprus | Cyprus dispute | Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation | Bank of Cyprus | Annan Plan for Cyprus | United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus | Turkish Federated State of Cyprus | James II of Cyprus | Cyprus Mines Corporation | Ptolemy of Cyprus | Guy of Ibelin, constable of Cyprus | Districts of Cyprus | Cyprus Wheatear | Cyprus in the Middle Ages | Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 | Cyprus College of Art | Soli, Cyprus | Peter II of Cyprus | National Unity Party (Northern Cyprus) | Mount Olympus (Cyprus) | Lempa, Cyprus | Iranian Armenians |
Legally, the Greek Cypriot community comprises the ethnic Greek population as well as Cypriots belonging to three Christian minorities – the Armenians, Latin Rite Catholics and Maronites.