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Title: A dictionary of the Bible..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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n Sea, triangular inform, 150 miles long, and from 50 to 60miles broad. Venus was its chief god-dess ; hence her name Cypria. It con- tained two prominent cities, Salamis andPaphos, and 17 towns. Salamis was atthe east and Paphos at the west end ofthe island. Acts 13 : 5. Barnabas wasa native of Cyprus, and its people arenoticed in apostolic history. Acts 4 :36 ; 13 : 4 : 15 : 39. Sergius Paulus,proconsul of Cyprus, was converted byPaul on his first missionary-tour, Acts13 : 7 ff., and thus became the firstChristian ruler on record. History.—Cyprus was colonized by thePhoenicians at a very early date. It wasthe Chittim, or Kittim, of the O. T.Num. 24 : 24. Through Greek colonistsit received the name of Kypros, perhapsfrom the plant Cyprus (henna—Lawsoniaalba. See Camphire). Copper-miningand the production of swords, armor, andother articles in bronze were its princi-pal industries. There was also an ex-tensive commerce. In literature, Cyprusboastedof very early distinction. Thoth-
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Map of mes III. of Egypt conquered the island.At a later period Belus, king of Tyre^ de-stroyed most of its cities. Sargon madeit tributary to Assyria, B. c. 707 ; Apries,king of Egypt (the Pharaoh of Scripture),plundered it. Later, it was ti-ibutary toDarius. The Athenians and Lacede-monians conquered part of Cyprus fromthe Persians, B. c. 477. Alexander theGreat was aided by 120 ships from thisisland in his siege of Tyre, b. c. 335. InB. c. 294 the island was a dependency ofEgypt. Cato took possession of it forthe Romans. Cicero was proconsul212 Cyprus. there, B. C. 52. The Byzantine empe-rors and the Arabs successively heldsway. Cyprus was a frequent halting-place of the Crusaders. Richard I. ofEngland captured it in A. D. 1191, andsold it to the Knights Templars. Later,the Genoese and Venetians held theisland. The Turks dispossessed theVenetians A. D. 1570, and have retainedtheir mastery for more than 300 years. The control of Cyprus was securedin 1878 by the English government as

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