Word: famagusta
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...Greek Cypriot reserve force that came into battle dressed in everything from blue jeans to World War II helmets and armed with anything from shotguns to ancient bolt-action Lee-Enfield rifles. The reserves, like the regulars, fought with verve and frequent gallantry. Near the coastal resort of Famagusta, TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager watched in awe as a Greek Cypriot mobile unit that consisted of a Fiat, a BMW and a bright red open-top MG tried to turn the flank of a Turkish column...
...Famagusta, Prager reported, Turkish jets pounded targets that had no military value just two hours before the cease-fire went into effect. One heavily struck area was the city's famed Golden Mile, a chain of beach hotels. The last of the foreign tourists were still being evacuated when the afternoon strikes took place. In a first aid center near the beach, Greek volunteers flattened themselves on the floor. Young women bravely, if thinly, sang a song of the Greek underground that has as its theme the old Spartan saying about coming home carrying one's shield...
...Holy Land, Cyprus fell to the Franks and then to the Venetians. In 1570 the Turks arrived, carrying the standard of the Ottoman Empire. From the start, the Turkish rulers demonstrated a ferocity that the inhabitants of Cyprus never forgot. After capturing the city of Famagusta in 1571, the Turks publicly flayed to death the commander of the defending troops, then stuffed his skin with straw and paraded it around the island. About 30,000 Turkish soldiers were granted land on Cyprus, encouraging them to settle their families there. Those settlers were the ancestors of Cyprus' Turkish community, which...
...Salamis, a Hellenistic Roman site near Famagusta, Cyprus. Director: Professor Vassos Karageorghis, Director of Antiguities, the National Museum of Cyprus...
...under intense surveillance after the assassination attempt; when he tried to leave the island, policemen ordered him off a Beirut-bound airliner as it prepared for takeoff. Last week, barely 48 hours after his departure was thwarted, he was ambushed while driving on the road from Nicosia to Famagusta. Six bullets tore into his back and left side, killing him instantly...