Cyprus, the Mediterranean's third largest island after Sicily and Sardinia, only emerged as a notionally independent state on August 16, 1960 For the first time, following centuries of rule by whatever empire or nation dominated the eastern Mediterranean - including, from 1878 to 1960, Great Britain - the islanders seemed to control their own огъпл destiny Such empowerment proved illusory: no distinctly Cypriot national identity was permitted to evolve by the island's Orthodox Christian Greek and Muslim Turkish communities Within four years, tension between these two groups had rent the society asunder, followed in 1974 by a political and ethnic division of the island imposed by the mainland Turkish army Формат: 13 см x 19,5 см 6-е издание Автор Marc Dubin.  ПрижизненноеСерия: Rough Guides.