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Cyprus

Guide to Cyprus ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

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Cyprus is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea in Europe whose nearest neighbors are Türkiye, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Egypt, and Greece. It was formerly ruled by the Ottoman Empire and the British Empire. The official languages are Greek and Turkish.

Cyprus Online Genealogy Records

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Genealogy records are kept on the local level in Cyprus.

Districts

Cyprus is divided into six districts:

• Famagusta
• Kyrenia
• Larnaca
• Limassol
• Nicosia
• Paphos