The Loss of Cyprus [1564–1570] II
Map of the Siege of Nicosia, by Giovanni Camoccio, 1574 In 1570 Venice had held Cyprus for eighty-one years. Queen Caterina had been replaced by a Venetian governor, with the title of Lieutenant: in him and his two Counsellors – the three together, known as the Rectors, were the Cypriot equivalent of the Signoria – […]
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