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Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups. | Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups. | ||
== | ==Historical Background== | ||
<ref>"Cyprus", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus, accessed August 2021.</ref> | *Cyprus was settled by Mycenaean '''Greeks''' in two waves in the 2nd millennium BC. | ||
*As a strategic location in the Eastern Mediterranean, it was '''subsequently occupied by several major powers''', including the empires of the '''Assyrians, Egyptians and Persians'''. Subsequent rule by '''Ptolemaic Egypt, the Classical and Eastern Roman Empire, Arab caliphates for a short period, the French Lusignan dynasty and the Venetians''' was followed by over '''three centuries of Ottoman rule between 1571 and 1878'''. | |||
*Cyprus was placed under the '''UK's administration''' in 1878 and was formally annexed by the UK in 1914. | |||
*Following nationalist violence in the 1950s, Cyprus was granted independence in 1960.<ref>"Cyprus", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus, accessed August 2021.</ref> | |||
==Emigration From Cyprus== | ==Emigration From Cyprus== | ||
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