| Abstract from DBPedia | Cyprus (/ˈsaɪprəs/), officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. It is situated south of the Anatolian Peninsula, and its continental position is disputed; while it is geographically located in West Asia, it has cultural and geopolitical ties to Southern Europe. Cyprus is the third-largest and third-most populous island in the Mediterranean, and is located south of Turkey, east of Greece, north of Egypt, and west of Syria. Its capital and largest city is Nicosia. The northern half of the island is de facto governed by the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which was established following the 1974 Turkish invasion. The earliest known human activity on the island dates to around the 10th millennium BC. Archaeological remains include the well-preserved ruins from the Hellenistic period such as Salamis and Kourion, and Cyprus is home to some of the oldest water wells in the world. 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, from whom the island was seized in 333 BC by Alexander the Great. 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 (de jure until 1914). Cyprus is a major tourist destination in the Mediterranean. With an advanced, high-income economy and a very high Human Development Index, the Republic of Cyprus has been a member of the Commonwealth since 1961 and was a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement until it joined the European Union on 1 May 2004. On 1 January 2008, the Republic of Cyprus joined the eurozone.キプロス共和国（キプロスきょうわこく、ギリシア語: Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία、トルコ語: Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti）、通称キプロスは、トルコの南の東地中海上に位置するキプロス島の大部分を占める共和制国家。首都はニコシア。EU加盟国。公用語はギリシア語およびトルコ語。 キプロス島の一部は、イギリス海外領土のアクロティリおよびデケリアであり、共和国領ではない。さらに1974年以来、南北に分断され、島の北部約37%を、国際的にはトルコのみが承認する「独立国家」であるトルコ系住民による北キプロス・トルコ共和国が占めている。一方のキプロス共和国は国際連合加盟国193か国のうち、192か国（トルコを除く）が国家承認している。 キプロスは元来はギリシャ系住民とトルコ系住民の混住する複合民族国家だったが、キプロス島分断後は、事実上ギリシャ系による単一民族国家となっている。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Cyprus) |
