A Land for Strangers
Non-Native Individuals and Communities in Cyprus
open access | peer reviewed
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- Carlotta Brignone - Università di Torino, Italia - email
- Lorenzo Calvelli - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
- Giulia Gollo - Universität zu Köln; KU Leuven, Deutschland - email
- Lorenzo Mazzotta - Università di Pisa, Italia - email
Abstract
What happens when ‘strangers’ become part of the very fabric of a place? In Cyprus, newcomers have long shaped the island’s history, enriching rather than disrupting the cohesion of local cultures. Seven interdisciplinary essays – framed by a thought-provoking preface and an introspective afterword – explore the roles and contributions of non-native individuals and communities in Cypriot society, from prehistory to the present day. Drawing on a wide range of sources and approaches, this volume offers insights into Cyprus’s identity as a site of connectivity and interaction, suggesting how its complex past may hold enduring relevance for contemporary societies.
Keywords Writing systems • History of literacy • Public diplomacy • Community culture • Interdisciplinary studies • Mobility • Late Helladic • Multilingual inscriptions • Iron curtain • Palma di Cesnola • Antiquities in contemporary art • Cold War • Protection of France • Hala Sultan Tekke • Church • Priest • Aegean pottery • Levantines • Intermediaries • Greek inscriptions • Archaeology of Cyprus • Decolonial art practices • Ionian Islands • Epigraphic habit • Materiality of texts • Cyprus issue • Soviet history • French consuls • Migration • Coexistence • Cyprus • Soviet archaeology • Ottoman Cyprus • Cultural history • Human interaction • Khrushchev’s thaw • Village culture • Intercultural contacts • Sergey Kisselyoff • Ptolemaic administration • Zantiots • Hellenistic History • Cypriot society • Contemporary history • Cyprus archaeology • Identity • Late Cypriot • Extractive archaeology • Ottoman Empire • Venetian Consuls • Connectivity • Marianna Christofides • Larnaca • Functional analysis
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-917-7 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-917-7 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-852-1 | Pubblicato 24 Luglio 2025 | Lingua it, en
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