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Cyprus (cyp)

Cyprus ranks 2,255th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kemi, Tomsk, and Postojna. Memorable people born in Cyprus include Theodora, Ptolemy XII Auletes, and Saint Spyridon. Memorable people who died in Cyprus include Solon, Saint Spyridon, and John the Merciful. Cyprus has been the birth place of many politicians and religious figures and the death place of many religious figures and politicians. Cyprus is located in Cyprus.

Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, north of the Sinai Peninsula, south of the Anatolian Peninsula, and west of the Levant. It is geographically a part of West Asia, but its cultural ties and geopolitics are overwhelmingly Southeast European. Cyprus is the third-largest and third-most populous island in the Mediterranean. It is east of Greece, north of Egypt, south of Turkey, and west of Lebanon and Syria. Its capital and largest city is Nicosia. The northeast portion of the island is de facto governed by the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 117 BC and 1300, Cyprus was the birth place of 6 globally memorable people, including Theodora, Ptolemy XII Auletes, and Saint Spyridon. Additionaly, 7 globally memorable people have passed away in Cyprus including Solon, Saint Spyridon, and John the Merciful. Interestingly, more notably known people have passed away in Cyprus than were born there.