Captured by the Ottomans in the sixteenth century, in 1878 it became a British naval base.
Its original inhabitants retained only the kingdom of Amathus after six Arcadian colonies were founded here. It may have been the Hittite trading center of Alashiya and was later claimed as a conquest by Thutmose III and Sargon II. In the later Middle Ages it served as a sugar plantation and a refuge for the deposed kings of Jerusalem, who ruled the island as the house of Lusignan and squabbled with the Genoese and Venetians. Captured by the Ottomans in the sixteenth century, in 1878 it became a British naval base. FTP, name this ancient source of copper, an island in the Eastern Mediterranean still disputed between Greeks and Turks.
Its original inhabitants retained only the kingdom of Amathus after six Arcadian colonies were founded here.
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