Atlas of Cyprus
Specific status: Akrotiri and Dhekelia‡ · Faroe Islands · Gibraltar · Bailiwick of Guernsey · Isle of Man · Jersey · Svalbard – Limited recognition: Abkhazia‡ · Gagauzia · Kosovo · South Ossetia‡ · Transnistria · Northern Cyprus‡
‡: partly located in Europe
Limited recognition: Abkhazia‡ · Taiwan · Northern Cyprus‡ · State of Palestine · South Ossetia‡ – Other territories: Akrotiri and Dhekelia‡ · British Indian Ocean Territory · Hong Kong · Macau
‡: partly located in Asia
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General maps
Map of the division of Cyprus |
Topographic map of Cyprus |
Divided Cyprus with the Districts of Cyprus |
Map of municipalities of Greek-controlled area of Cyprus |
Location of Akrotiri and Dhekelia on Cyprus. See also Atlas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia. |
Map of Northern Cyprus. See also Atlas of Northern Cyprus. |
History maps
This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Cyprus, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Cyprus.
The Region in the 9th to 7th centuries BC |
The Achaemid Empire (Persia (648–330 BCE) at its greatest extent |
The Persian Achaemenid Empire |
The Persian Achaemenid Empire |
The Persian Achaemenid Empire |
The Expedition of Alexander the Great 334-323 BCE |
Map of the Empire of Alexander |
Map of the Empire of Alexander 334-323 BCE |
Map of the Empire of Alexander (Norwegian) |
Hellenistic successor states: Kingdom of Kingdom of Kingdom of Kingdom of Other states: |
Hellenistic world in 200 BCE |
Lydia |
Territorial development of the Roman Empire 264 BC-192, including the conquest of present |
Roman conquest of Minor Asia |
Map of the Roman Empire in 50 |
The extent of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire; 133 BC 44 BC (late Republic, after conquests by republican generals) AD 14 (death of Augustus)
117 (maximum extension) |
Cyprus in the Roman Empire |
Map of the Roman Empire in 116 |
Roman Empire in 117 |
Roman Empire divided 395, showing the dioceses and praetorian prefectures of Gaul, Italy, Illyricum and Oriens (east), roughly analogous to the four Tetrarch zones of influence after Diocletian's reforms. |
The division of the Empire after the death of Theodosius I, ca.395 AD superimposed on modern borders. |
Division of the Roman Empire in 406 |
Eastern Roman Empire and Western Roman Empires, c.476 |
Eastern Roman Empire |
Eastern Roman Empire under emperor Justinianus |
Eastern Roman Empire under emperor Justinianus |
Byzantine Empire 550 |
Expansion of the Caliphate: I: Muhammad; II: Abu Bakr; III: Omar and IV: Othman |
Age of the :en:Caliphs |
Caliphate around 750 |
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The Byzantine Empire under Basil II, c. 1025 |
Byzantine Empire 1025 |
The Byzantine Empire at the accession of Alexios I Komnenos, c. 1081 |
Cyprus and the Crusader states in 1135 |
Minor Asia in 1140 (in Spanish) |
The Crusader States |
Ayyubid rule in 1189 |
The Ayyubid Empire of Saladin around 1190 |
Map of the Byzantine Empire under Manuel Komnenos, c.1170. |
Byzantine Empire 1180 |
The Kingdom of Cyprus in 1265 (William R. Shepherd, Historical Atlas, 1911). |
Kingdom of Cyprus in 1265 |
Kingdom of Cyprus in 1355 |
Location of the Ottoman Empire in 1683 |
Map of the Ottoman Empire 1801 |
Cyprus inside the British Empire |
A former British colony, the Republic of Cyprus gained independence in 1960 while the United Kingdom retained two Sovereign Base Areas. Following 11 years of alternating intercommunal violence, leading to the sending of UN peacekeeping forces in 1964, and peaceful attempts at reconciliation in response to an Athens-engineered coup aimed at uniting the island with Greece, Turkey launched a two-stage invasion of the island in 1974. The invasion led to the internal displacement of thousands of Greek and Turkish Cypriots and the subsequent establishment of a separatist regime to govern the invaded area, currently styling itself the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, separated from the south by the UN-controlled Green Line and recognized only by Turkey. |
Old maps
This section holds copies of original general maps more than 70 years old.
Early 18th century map by Pieter van der Aa |
Map by Pieter van der Aa made in 1719 of Turkey and Cyprus |
Satellite maps
Satellite map |
Satellite map |
Satellite map |
Notes and references
General remarks:
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