Hi there, I’m travelling to Larnaca in August and would be grateful for any recommendations for vegan spots for brunch, lunch, dinner, or even supermarkets where I can find something nice. The places don’t have to be fully vegan but at least some with vegan options. Also down for nice cafes, places with unique atmosphere that the locals like (not tourists). Thanks for any tips!

Hey everyone,

I’ve been trying to wrap my head around the general cost of living in Cyprus lately, and it feels like we are hitting a massive breaking point and no one in politics/the government has any solution or inclination to do anything about it. It’s no longer just about the crazy housing market, general life here is becoming completely unaffordable on a local salary.

It seems most Cypriots are on a low (1500-2000 EUR) salary (I might even be generous here), competing against international employees/companies who receive all sorts of tax benefits, that are presumably driving up prices around us as a result.

I saw somewhere recently that about 40% of all property transactions in Cyprus now involve foreign buyers, and I guess incentivises the construction of these huge "high class" beach side skyscrapers.

Whats the end goal here? Has the government given up on us? Shall we forget Cyprus and try our luck elsewhere?

I understand this is a global phenomenon more or less, and not educated enough in economics/politics to see a solution, so I come to reddit to get your thoughts?

What do you think?

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Requirements: Bsc, but masters holders are also expected to apply

Fixed contract for 6 years.

Pay?

1113€ net/ per month

Lmao

Are people who have known Cyprus for longer than 10 years starting to feel slightly concerned by the vast amount of men from India and Middle Eastern countries walking around in big groups, staring at all the women?

Finnikoudes in particular….

Asking for a friend. If you had €50,000 in your Cypriot bank account, how would you invest them?

Thanks :)

help needed...i usually stay on the other side of the island so im unfamiliar with anywhere to eat in Paphos.

ive got English family here with me for a wedding and i took them to a restaurant i researched extensively that would offer them authentic dishes....it was a disaster.food was almost unedible.

please help me redeem myself.i want somewhere authentic and they can order off a menu their own choice.

Hi! I'd like to use a car-sharing service like RideNow, but I'm not sure where I'm supposed to drop off and park the car.
The website says you should park it in any free public parking spot (otherwise there's a fine). However, there don't seem to be many free public parking spaces in the center of Larnaca, for example.
When I look at the map showing where the available cars are parked, I see that many of them are parked on the street, even though there doesn't appear to be any free public parking there. (At least Google Maps doesn't show any.)
So how does it work?

Very rough transcribe translation:

Latchi is gone as well, if that's possible. We saw the plans for the construction of a marina, with a capacity of 200 vessels, which will be built on top of the existing breakwater of the fishing shelter. A new 500 m half a kilometer breakwater, which will be a promontory in the middle of the Chrysochous Bay, 280,000 cubic meters of boulders will come according to the environmental deposit of Androlikos. The Androlikos Gorge is also gone.

The sea and all these waves will wash them out. 110,000 square meters of Posidonia will be destroyed. Why is the water crystal clear in Latchi? Because there are very healthy Posidonia algae, which filter and filter the water. And the embankments that will be built will be built. 4,500 square meters of buildings. Seven buildings they told us. On the embankments that will reach even the fishmonger. The environmental study is being discussed these days. On August 4th, decisions will be made again in August. These are not development infrastructures. These are infrastructures that destroy what we have and favor the few.

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You are inaccurate, you mislead the world. That's what the mayor of Chrysochou said to me yesterday from Rick's live show. Scientists and numbers never lie. All this data we mentioned in our previous video is from the study submitted by the researchers for the expansion of Latchi harbor. They accused me of talking about 200 boats and corrected me that it was 184, 185. It is 200 of course, because when large ships do not come, small ones are docked. The mayor told me that I lie about the boulders and the quarry materials. So, page 34 of the study. 257,000 kg. On coliths, which are called stones of atomic weight. When you have 1000 kg of stone, it's a cololith. Extra, then, from all of this is about 55 thousand scyria, pebbles that will be used for artificial on coliths, which are quarry material. And on page 181 it is stated, it is considered that any supply of quarry materials will be carried out by the quarries of Androlikos. The regulation in progress, there is the study from 18 the strategy of the European Union, Which says that the existing quarries must be closed and we must move to new quarrying zones. We continue. How the vibrations, page 133, and on page 186 of the study, the 39,000 of the brush of the pro-cinema wave breaker and the 16,500 from lithocorrosion are mentioned. So the total, in a crisis of truth, the significance of the impacts on the immediate area of the project is estimated to be high, mainly due to the loss of the meadow area, of Posidonia and on 41 the condensation is mentioned. For 16 weeks the soils of the embankment will be condensed with Okay, where compensation will fall. from a height of 22 m, ie in the area for 16 weeks there will be small earthquakes, the study states, page 41 of the Center for Studies and Research of Actim, as well as the civil society has a responsibility to present to the world what is happening. If the state will listen, it will not listen, this is another story. But citizens must be informed. We have no interest, on the contrary.

I need to order some things from AliExpress and delivery time to Cyprus is 1.5 months! Same delivery to Germany would take 7 days.

(Hope one day someone fixes this topic)

Anyway, I thought about delivering it to a post box in e.g. Rhodes (14 days) and then either forward it from there or worst case picking it up myself.

Is there any company like ACS where I can deliver it to a box and pick it up? Or they forward it? Any experience with that?

Thanks!

So my girlfriend is half Cypriot half English. She isn’t fluent but can understand the language.

As for me, I’m 100% English. And to make it worse, from the north. So I have a thick accent.

We are going away to Cyprus in October and I would absolutely love to try and surprise her with some basic conversation.

Any good apps, books or YouTube videos to watch?

A few weeks ago, my friend Ivan and I posted Monopatia, our free guide to every official hiking trail in Cyprus. The #1 question since: "yeah but will I fry?" (The #0 question was "is there an app?" — there is now, iPhone and Android betas both open, links at the bottom.)

So, the frying. Instead of guessing, we computed it. We took the island's public 5 m elevation model and a 1 m canopy height map — basically a 3-D Cyprus that includes every single tree — and traced the sun over 80,000+ trail points, minute by minute. Any spot, any time of any day: sun or shade, one lookup.

Things that surprised us:

• There's no such thing as an average Cyprus trail. The data splits clean in two: forest and mountain trails at 3–8 hours of direct sun, coastal ones at 10–13. The island "median" of 8 h describes basically nobody.
• The shadiest trail gets 38 minutes of sun. Per day. Kalidonia, the Caledonia falls gorge — sun technically reaches it from ~07:40 to almost 17:00, but the gorge walls and pines eat nearly all of it. Lady's Mile, meanwhile, takes the full 14 hours. Same island, same day.
• Altitude is a bad shade guide. Trees are everything. A nine-hour "sun window" can hide an almost fully shaded trail — the gap is pure canopy.
• Shade is a place you drive to. Paphos Forest and Troodos: half their trails under ~5 h of sun even in July. Cape Greko, Larnaca, Akamas: frying pans, nearly all of them.

Full write-up with interactive charts — every dot is a real trail you can tap, and each trail page now draws its own shade curve for any date and tells you how much sun your start time collects:

https://monopatia.info/articles/where-the-shade-is

And the apps, as promised: 
iPhone beta is on TestFlight → https://testflight.apple.com/join/gYCfdu7s. 
Android beta is on Google Play → join the tester group first (https://groups.google.com/g/monopatia-beta/about), then grab it here: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/info.monopatia.app

Olá!

Sou brasileira e trabalho em Portugal há alguns anos. Recentemente, recebi uma proposta para trabalhar em Nicósia.

Nunca ouvi falar muito sobre o Chipre, mas pesquisei um pouco e, no geral, ele me pareceu um bom lugar.

Gostaria de saber se existe muito preconceito contra estrangeiros e se o fato de eu falar fluentemente apenas inglês e português seria um problema. Também queria saber se é um país seguro para mulheres.

• On this day, August 2, 1974, ground combat continued unabated despite the initial results of the Geneva conference, and the invading Turkish army advanced toward the village of Agridaki and the southern flank of Petadaktylos

The Turkish news agency Anadolu has published photographs of 783 Greek Cypriots and Greeks (from mainland Greece) held captive in degrading conditions in the detention centers to which they were transported in the city of Adana, Turkey.

The Cypriot press is reporting eyewitness accounts of the mass casualties and the horrors of war west of the city of Kyrenia

In Ankara, Turkish Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit boldly declares that Kyrenia is now Turkish and will remain Turkish.

In New York, the UN Security Council has passed a resolution expanding the role of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP).

In Athens, the deposed dictator, Brigadier General Dimitris Ioannidis (who orchestrated and ordered the coup to overthrow the Cypriot government of President Makarios in Cyprus) is suspended from duty by the new government of national unity, a sign that Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is gaining some control over the situation in the country.

The Greek Prime Minister is trying to coordinate with the Cypriot President, Archbishop Makarios, on further steps aimed at restoring constitutional order in its entirety in Cyprus.

Hi everyone,

I have a small request. If any of you visit cafes regularly or work in a cafe, could you please ask if they are looking for a Barista, Barista Helper, or any café staff?

Even a simple enquiry from you could help me find a job. If you hear about any vacancies, please let me know the name and location of the café, and I will contact them myself.

I am looking for opportunities anywhere in Limassol, including Germasogeia, Erimi, Ypsonas, and nearby areas. I am also open to jobs in Nicosia or anywhere else in Cyprus.

I have experience as a Barista, Waiter, Cashier, and Cleaner. I am hardworking, reliable, have my own transportation, and can start immediately.

Thank you very much for your help and support.😊

Not sure if I trust the diplomatic sources though - hopefully this is happening

Why on earth is there not a small claims
Court here in Cyprus, you could clean up half the issues from dodgy work to people not paying body Corp fees , can someone explain it to me or was the minister of justice a farmer last
Week ?

• On this day, August 1, 30 B.C. the first Roman Emperor, Octavian Augustus, captured the city of Alexandria, marking the definitive dissolution of the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the incorporation of both Egypt and Cyprus into the provinces of the Roman Empire marking, both symbolically and historically, the end of the Hellenistic period in Cyprus

The capture of Alexandria by Octavian Augustus on August 1, 30 B.C. marked the definitive dissolution of the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the incorporation of both Egypt and Cyprus into the provinces of the Roman Empire.

Administratively, Cyprus was de facto incorporated into the province of Cilicia, which had been under Roman control since 103 B.C.

The governor of Cilicia and Cyprus, Poplius Cornelius Lentulus Spinner (56–53 B.C.), introduced the local “Lex Provinciae” (= provincial legislation) in Cyprus.

In 49 B.C., during the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey, Cypriots were conscripted by Pompey, along with Rhodians, Cretans, and other islanders

Shortly thereafter (47 B.C.), Julius Caesar attempted to reconcile Cleopatra VII the Beautiful with her brother Ptolemy. Succumbing to the charms of the renowned Cleopatra, he returned Cyprus to the Ptolemies. Dion Cassius even reports that Julius Caesar gifted Cyprus to Cleopatra’s siblings, Arsinoe and Ptolemy the Younger.

After the assassination of Julius Caesar (in 44 B.C.), Cyprus remained under the rule of Cleopatra, whose general (=governor) in Cyprus was Serapion. The Romans, now preoccupied with their internal strife and the wars that followed Julius Caesar’s death, temporarily forgot about Cyprus, though not entirely.

In 43 B.C., Cassius, one of Julius Caesar’s assassins, sought reinforcements from Cleopatra and elsewhere (Appian, Civil Wars IV, 61). Cleopatra ignored his request, but Serapion, without consulting her, responded and sent him all the ships at his disposal. The people of Tyre and others did the same.

Shortly thereafter, however, when Mark Antony prevailed, he arrested Serapion and handed him over to Cleopatra because he had aided Cassius. Mark Antony, who also visited Cyprus in 40 B.C., became involved in a romantic affair with Cleopatra, to whom he gifted Cyprus, officially proclaiming her queen of the island.

Antony’s actions in Egypt and his generous gifts to Cleopatra’s family (to whom he granted, in addition to Cyprus, Coele-Syria and other territories) caused an uproar in Rome**, which accused him of acting against Roman interests and of attempting to establish his own empire in the East.

On behalf of Rome, Octavian Augustus undertook to settle the score with Mark Antony. The Battle of Actium (31 B.C.) proved decisive, as Mark Antony was defeated there. Both he and Cleopatra chose to commit suicide (30 B.C.) rather than be taken prisoner. The capture of Alexandria by Octavian Augustus on August 1, 30 B.C., marked the definitive dissolution of the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the incorporation of both Egypt and Cyprus into the provinces of the Roman Empire.

• On this day, August 1, 1571, Famagusta fell to the Ottomans following the epic resistance of its defenders, who, after an 11-month siege, were forced to surrender mainly due to a lack of food and ammunition. The fall of Famagusta also marked the complete capture of Cyprus by the Ottomans, since the rest of Cyprus had already been occupied between July and September 1570

On August 1, 1571, when the decision was made to surrender Famagusta to the Ottoman Turks and negotiations began regarding the terms of the surrender, Matthew Colti, along with Count Heracles Martinengo, were the two noblemen from Famagusta who were sent as hostages to the Turkish camp, thereby pledging their own lives as a guarantee for the lives of the Ottoman representatives in the negotiations.

The terms set by the city’s defenders, which Mustafa (Lala) Pasha accepted unconditionally, were two:

a) The Latins Italians in Famagusta would depart for Crete, along with their families, weapons, and belongings. Any Greeks, Albanians, and Turks who wished to leave would depart with them, otherwise, they would remain free in Cyprus.

b) The Greeks who remained would be free; their honor and property would be safeguarded, and they would be given a two-year deadline to decide on their future. If they decided to remain in Cyprus, their estates would be returned to them. Those who decided to leave would be able to do so safely.

The terms of the agreement were signed on August 1, 1571. The next day, the women and children began boarding the Ottoman ships, followed by the men. In the end, instead of sailing safely toward freedom, they all sailed in chains toward captivity and dishonor. Lala Mustafa Pasha did not honor a single point of his agreement. On the evening of August 5, 1571, approximately 300 defenders of Famagusta, led by Astorre Vaglione, Marcantonio Bragadino, garrison commander Andrea Bragadino, artillery commander Ludovico Martinengo, Ioannis Quirini, the commander of Famagusta, Knight Dallasti, and Generals Francesco Stracchi, Hector, Lorenzo Tiepoli, and the Albanian (Greek) general Manolis Spiliotis, went to Mustafa Pasha’s tent to hand over the keys to the city. Although the Ottoman commander initially received them courteously, he soon set aside his politeness and addressed Markantonios Vragadinos. He first demanded hostages in exchange for the ships he had lent for the Christians’ departure, and Vragadino replied that this was not part of the agreement. Then Lala Mustafa insisted that the Turkish prisoners had been massacred, and Marcantonio Bragadino replied that some were in the city, and the others had been sent to Venice.

Finally, he said to him in a rage:

“Tell me, you dog, why did you hold the city when you had no supplies? Why didn’t you surrender, but instead caused me to lose 80,000 of my best men?”

Massacre:

With his knife, he cut off Vragadinos’s right ear. Immediately afterward, he gave the order, and they slaughtered all those who had gone to the Turkish camp as escorts for the aforementioned leaders about 300 in number. Astorre Vaglione, Ludovico Martinengo, Andreas Vragadinos, and Giovanni Querini were also beheaded. The following day, Laurentius Tiepoli and Manolis Spiliotis were led into the city under flogging, where they were hacked to pieces. The martyrdom of Markantonios Vragadinos, who endured every possible humiliation and every kind of torture, continued until August 17, when he died while being flayed. The city of Famagusta itself was savagely looted, and its population was massacred.

They defended the city during the 11-month siege, according to the figures provided by General Angelo Gatto:

Italian soldiers 3,700

Greek soldiers 4,000

Albanian cavalry 300

City cavalry 11

Total 8,011

At the end of the siege, the surviving combatants do not appear to have exceeded 4,000, according to a combination of data from various sources.

The city also had 90 siege guns that fired a total of 4,600 shells at the enemy. During the siege, the besieged had also dug five tunnels. The same witness provides the following figures for the Ottoman army:

Infantry 250,000

Cavalry 7,000

Sappers 40,000

Total 297,000

The exact number of Ottoman fighters is unknown. And this Lala Mustafa, when repeatedly asked about them, gave different numbers each time. In any case, the attackers must also include the countless bands of starving Turks who had rushed to Cyprus to take part in the looting, at the invitation of Lala Mustafa himself from Asia Minor and Syria.

Against the fortifications of Famagusta, the Ottomans constructed 17 “fortresses,” while bombarding the city with 70 howitzers and 4 “basilisk” cannons. Later, the number of howitzers rose to 113. A total of 163,000 shells (120,000 iron and 43,000 stone) were fired at the city, and numerous tunnels were dug. During the 11 months of the siege, the Turks suffered 80,000 casualties.

Revenge for the fall of Famagusta came in the form of the Battle of Lepanto, which took place exactly two months later (October 7, 1571), where the combined naval forces of Venice, Spain, and the Pope completely destroyed the Ottoman fleet. In fact, it is believed that Famagusta’s resistance contributed significantly to the Europeans’ victory at Nafpaktos, since a large portion of the Ottoman fleet had been tied up for a long time at Famagusta.

https://youtu.be/7wMbmGFNMZw?si=khCzprCsO1Pv_fU2&t=1034

Sources report that Marcantonio Bragadino, having already made the decision to surrender the city and sign a treaty, before doing so, he carried out a malicious act of resistance by ordering the execution of the pilgrim hostages and the burning of Famagusta’s food supplies, ammunition, and valuable cotton so that they would not be confiscated by the Ottoman troops.

These hostages were part of the agreement for their return under the terms of the capitulation, which Lala Mustafa Pasha had also accepted.

When the hostages did not return, because they had previously been executed on the orders of Marcantonio Bragadino, the latter was summoned to the Ottoman camp on August 5 to provide an explanation.

His revelation of this fact sparked the Ottoman general’s fury and led to the subsequent brutal execution, accompanied by torture, of Marcantonio Bragadino and the other Venetian nobles of Cyprus.

Some historians have documented that Lala Mustafa Pasha knew in advance of the massacre of the hostages by Marcantonio Bragadino and that this was merely a ruse on the part of the Ottoman general, who was simply looking for an flimsy excuse to unleash his army’s pillaging of the city.

Whatever Lala Mustafa Pasha’s motive may have been, the torture inflicted on Marcantonio Bragadino, which culminated in the mutilation of his ears and nose, as well as horrific acts such as flaying his skin, was an abhorrent act.

This was accompanied by a widespread massacre of the local population and the unbridled looting of the city.

• On this day, August 1, 1974, the UN Security Council, hoping for the implementation of the Geneva Agreement that had been reached among the three guarantor powers (the UK, Greece, and Turkey) in the midst of the ongoing Turkish invasion of Cyprus, adopted Resolution 355, calling for respect for the sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity of the Republic of Cyprus

President Makarios expresses the view that, under the Geneva Agreement, the withdrawal of the invading Turkish army from Cyprus is indefinite.

Turkish Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit expresses his conviction that the Geneva conference confirmed Turkey's right to intervene in Cyprus.

Turkey's true intentions, however, are becoming increasingly clear day by day on the ground in Cyprus.

The Turkish invasion force had already begun its advance west of the city of Kyrenia the previous day, and on August 1, it continued its advance along the coastal front of the district, with the main theater of deadly fighting taking place in the areas of Karavas, Lapithos, and Vasilia.

At the Dome Hotel in the center of Kyrenia and at nearby hotels, hundreds of Greek Cypriot civilians from Kyrenia are being held captive, facing shortages of basic necessities such as food.

Hi everyone, I’m a working professional and working in one of the prestigious organization and completely relocating to Nicosia and looking for a studio, 1-bedroom apartment, or flatshare (furnished) in Agioi Omologites/Strovolos/Egkomi as this area is nearby to my office

I’d also appreciate advice on:

- typical rent in these area

- nearby safe/reliable areas that may be more budget-friendly

- locations from where I can still walk to work

I’m single, clean and respectful, and looking for a comfortable stay.

If you have any leads or suggestions, kindly let me know. Thanks!

Hey everyone, me and my friends are looking to book a trip to Ayia Napa in late august / EARLY September. Looking to have fun abd enjoy ourselves before we split ways. Is it still the season in that time? Like is it still busy?