Course Details

1. To Recall and define relatively precedent ages properly titled and summarized from international ancient history, in order to understand better the prominent march of the history of Cyprus scholarly synthesized, and to identify the major debates in the context of the history of the Eastern Mediterranean countries related to historic topics to the Hellenistic period together with modules that give grounding in understanding from archaeological evidence and monuments.
2. To Discuss with various examples and gain optimum understanding of the civilized past and mainly with issues of Modern Period and of the present and even a glimpse of the future and discuss with facts and figures periods or events off Cyprus especially notions regarding the important geopolitical situation of Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean countries, and recall and present adequately significant occasions affecting Cyprus march in her own history because of her strategic value.
3. To Detect, compare and interpret critically some historical essentials from historical heritage contributing to some understanding better the present and be more attentive and observant for the future appraise learning events, away from fanaticism and fanciful or “modern” or vain and vague or vehement and idealistic or deceptive or falsities plus political or religious intolerance too.
4. To Integrate historical essential facts and figures associated with the related economic, social and political developments in history and select and appraise events from past and recent history of Cyprus to support opinion for a glimpse of the future solution of the extended problem for a unified and peaceful Cyprus Republic based on dignified and peaceful mankind secured in welfare states.
5. To Identify the historical sources for the economic, political and cultural diffusion evolving from close contacts in the Eastern Mediterranean and prepare and write assignments and or a project based on comparative historical essentials and in the case of facts and figures relate them with the economic, social and political and geopolitical development of the island’s history.

The Persians vs the Greeks – Attempts at the Liberation of Cyprus (the Onisilos and the Ionian revolve, Kimon, Evagoras and Alexander the Great)
King Evagoras and Athens. The classical Era: “The Glory that was Hellas” – comparative concepts of Democracy, and the most notable achievements of the classic world that inspired Evagoras for the betterment of life for the people of Salamina and Cyprus (WHY named as "model ruler" by the orator Isocrates)
Hellenistic Times

The Roman Period and the Advert of Christianity
The Byzantine Period and the independence of the Church of Cyprus (Autocephalous church) and a note of Islam

The Crusades and a King of England
The Frankish Period and the Venetian
 
The Turkish Period
The Greek Revolution and its suppression in Cyprus

The British Period - The take over from British - The British Administration
Cyprus and the Second World War
The Colonialism
The ENOSIS movement and the struggle of Greek Cypriots  

The Republic of Cyprus 1960 -1963. Comparative constitutional issues.
The coup d’etat from the Greek Junta and the Turkish Invasion 1974
  
 Cyprus after 1974 - 2005
 Cyprus after accession.

• Kristis Charakis, Introduction to History of Cyprus, Notes in the form of a text book covering the frame of the syllabus

• About Cyprus, PIO Nicosia, 2004; The Cyprus Question, PIO, Nicosia, 2003
• The Cyprus Question, PIO Nicosia, 2003
• Georgiades Cl., History of Cyprus (translated from Greek), Nicosia, 1980
• Hill Sir George, A History of Cyprus [Vol. I-III (1948-1949) and Vol. IV (1972)], Cambridge University Press
• Kyrris C.P., History of Cyprus, Nicosia,1996
• Panteli Stavros, The making of Modern Cyprus, Interword Publ., Nicosia, 1990
• Karageorgis Jaqueline, Cyprus, there is an island (text), Philippides, Nicosia, 1987
• Der Parthog Gwynnenth, Byzantine and Medieval Cyprus, Interworld, New Barnet, Herts, UK, 1995.