List of heads of state of Cyprus

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Antiquity

Partial Kingdoms: Salamis is the most powerful. Others are Kition (partly under the direct rule of Sidon ), Amathous , Kurion , Paphos , Marion , Soli , Lapithos and ( Kerynia ) on the coast, Tamassos , Ledra , Idalion and Chytroi in the interior.

Kings of Salamis

Kings of Soloi

Kings of Lapithos

  • Praxippos, 312 BC Subdued by Ptolemy I of Egypt.

Kings of Kition

  • Pitagura of Kitrusi on the prism of Asarhaddon
  • Mikyaton
  • Pumiyaton

Kings of Paphos

  • Kinyras at the time of the Trojan War (fabulous)
  • Tuandâr of Pâppa on the prism of Asarhaddon
  • Nicocles , until 310 BC Chr.

Kings of Tamassos

Kings of Chytroi

  • Pylagoras

Kings of Kourion

Kings of Ledra

King Unasagusu of Lidîr on the prism of Asarhaddon

Ptolemaic Empire

The Ptolemies residing in Alexandria , Egypt , administered Cyprus through appointed governors ( strategoi ).

Roman times

Cyprus was founded in 31 BC Finally incorporated into the Roman Empire as a province.

Byzantine Empire

Kingdom of Cyprus

The Kingdom of Cyprus was in 1192 by the Crusaders built and was in 1291 with the Titularkönigtum Jerusalem in personal union connected. The kings were provided by the Lusignan family .

Kings Reign Regents Notes & Events
House Lusignan
Guido 1192-1194 Ex-King of Jerusalem
Amalrich 1194-1205 1197–1205 as Amalrich II also king of Jerusalem
Hugo I. 1205-1218 Walter of Montbéliard (1205–1210)
Heinrich I. 1218-1253 Queen Alice (1218–1223)
Philip of Ibelin (1223–1227)
Johann von Ibelin (1227–1228)
Amalrich Barlais (1228–1229)
Johann von Ibelin (1229–1232) 		Crusade of Damiette (1217–1221)
Crusade of Frederick II (1228–1229)
Lombard War (1229–1233)
1246–1253 Regent of Jerusalem
Sixth Crusade (1248–1250)
Hugo II 1253-1267 Queen Plaisance (1253–1261)
Hugo of Antioch (1261–1267)
House Antioch-Lusignan
Hugo III 1267-1284 1264–1268 Regent of Jerusalem
1268–1284 as Hugo I also King of Jerusalem
Crusade of Prince Edward (1271–1272)
Johann I. 1284-1285 1284–1285 as John II, also King of Jerusalem
Henry II 1285-1324 Amalrich of Tire (1306–1310)
Aimeric of Cyprus (1310) 		1285–1291 as Henry II also King of Jerusalem
siege of Acre (1291)
Hugo IV 1324-1359
Peter I. 1359-1369 John of Cyprus (1362-1365) Crusade against Alexandria (1365)
Peter II 1369-1382 John of Cyprus (1369-1375)
Jacob of Lusignan (1369-1375)
Jacob I. 1382-1398
Janus 1398-1432 Hugo of Lusignan (1426–1428)
Johann II. 1432-1458 Peter of Lusignan (1432)
Charlotte 1458-1460 Co-king Ludwig of Savoy (1459–1460)
Jacob II 1460-1473
Jacob III 1473-1474 Queen Katharina Cornaro (1473–1474)
Caterina Cornaro 1474-1489 abdicated in favor of Venice

For the genealogy of the kings of Cyprus see House Lusignan and Ramnulfiden

Republic of Venice

1489-1571 Cyprus is part of the Republic of Venice

Ottoman Empire

1571-1878 Cyprus belongs to the Ottoman Empire

British administration

From 1878 Cyprus was administered by Great Britain until it was given independence in 1960.

British High Commissioners and Governors from ... to
Lieutenant-General Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley 1878-1879
Sir Robert Biddulph 1879-1886
Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer 1886-1892
Sir Walter Sendall 1892-1898
Sir William FHSmith 1898-1904
Sir Charles King-Harman 1904-1911
Hamilton John Goold-Adams 1911-1915
Sir John Eugene Clauson 1915-1918
Sir Malcolm Stevenson , as Governor from March 10, 1925 1918-1926
Sir Ronald Storrs 1926-1932
Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs 1932-1933
Sir Herbert Richmond Palmer 1933-1939
William Denis Battershill 1939-1941
Charles Campbell Woolley 1941-1946
Reginald Thomas Herbert Fletcher 1946-1949
Sir Andrew Barkworth Wright 1949-1953
Sir Robert Perceval Armitage 1954-1955
Sir John Alan Francis Harding 1955-1957
Sir Hugh Mackintosh Foot 1957-1960

Republic of Cyprus

president from ... to
Archbishop Makarios III. August 16, 1960 - July 15, 1974 (fall and exile )
Nikos Sampson July 15, 1974 - July 23, 1974
Glafko's Clerides July 23, 1974 - December 7, 1974 (Interim President)
Archbishop Makarios III. December 7, 1974 - August 3, 1977 (deceased in office)
Spyros Kyprianou August 31, 1977 - February 28, 1988
Georges Vassiliou February 28, 1988 - February 28, 1993
Glafko's Clerides February 28, 1993 - February 28, 2003
Tassos papadopoulos February 28, 2003 - February 28, 2008
Dimitris Christofias February 28, 2008 - February 28, 2013
Nikos Anastasiadis February 28, 2013 - Acting
Vice President from ... to
Fazıl Küçük August 16, 1960 - February 18, 1973
Up Denktaş February 18, 1973 - 1974

The position of Vice President has remained vacant since the Turkish Army's military offensive in 1974 .

Northern Cyprus

Turkish federal state of Cyprus

After a coup in the Republic of Cyprus in 1974, there was a Turkish intervention and the northern part of the island was captured by Turkish troops. In 1975 the Turkish Federal State of Cyprus was proclaimed in the occupied territory . The UN Security Council declared the declaration null and void. The Turkish federal state of Cyprus was only recognized internationally by Turkey . It was a stabilized de facto regime .

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

In 1983 the former Turkish Federal State of Cyprus declared itself independent under the name Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus . The UN Security Council declared the declaration of independence null and void. The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is only recognized by Turkey , it is a stabilized de facto regime.

literature

  • Roger S. Bagnall: The Administration of the Ptolemaic possessions outside Egypt , In: Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, Vol. 4 (1976), pp. 45-46.

See also