List of wars involving Cyprus

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This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Cyprus and its predecessor states.

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Greco-Persian Wars Greek city-states:  Achaemenid Empire (Persia)
Allied subordinate states: 		Greek Victory [1]
Kitos War Roman Empire:
zealots
 Roman Victory
Fifth Crusade
(1217–1221)
Crusaders
:

Levantine Crusader states:

Balkan Crusader states:

  • Latin Empire

Crusading orders
:

Muslim allies:

  • Sultanate of Rûm
 Muslim forces:
  • Ayyubid Sultanate
    • Damascus
    • Homs
    • Hama
    • Aleppo
    • Baalbek
 Defeat
  • Eight-year truce between the Ayyubids and the Crusaders
War of the Lombards
(1228–1243) 		Kingdom of Cyprus
Anti-Imperial faction in the Kingdom of Jerusalem


Papacy

 Holy Roman Empire
Pro-Imperial faction in the Kingdom of Jerusalem


Teutonic Knights

 Victory of anti-Imperial faction of local barons
Lord Edward's crusade
(1271–1272)
Military orders

Ilkhanate

Mamluk Sultanate
 Inconclusive
  • Jerusalem remains under Muslim control
  • Treaty of Caesarea
  • Siege of Tripoli, Lebanon lifted
  • Mamluk fleet destroyed.
  • Ten-year truce between Mamluks and Crusaders
Smyrniote crusades
(1343–1351) 		 Republic of Venice
Sovereign Military Order of Malta Knights Hospitaller
Kingdom of Cyprus
Dauphiné of Viennois
Papal States 		Emirate of Aydin Indecisive
Alexandrian Crusade
(9–12 October 1365) 		 Kingdom of Cyprus
 Republic of Venice
Knights Hospitaller
Mamluk Sultanate
 Crusader victory
Cyprus Emergency
(1955–1959) 		EOKA  United Kingdom

Cyprus Communist Party (AKEL)
 Turkey

EOKA Victory [2] [3] [4] [5]
Cyprus crisis of 1963–64
 Cyprus
1964
)
  • End of Turkish Cypriot participation in government
  • Establishment of Green Line and partition of Nicosia
  • Turkish Cypriot population movement into enclaves
  • Deployment of UNFICYP in 1964[7]
Cyprus crisis of 1967
 Cyprus
 Greece 		Turkey TMT
 Turkey
  • Greek Cypriot control of
    Kophinou
  • General Georgios Grivas and 12,000 Greek troops removed from Cyprus[8]
Turkish invasion of Cyprus
(1974) 		Cyprus
 Greece 		 Turkey
Turkey TMT 		Defeat[9]
  • Turkish occupation of 36.2% of Cyprus.[10]

Other armed conflicts involving Cyprus

References

  1. ^ "Greco-Persian Wars | Definition, Summary, Facts, Effects, & History". Encyclopedia Britannica.
  2. JSTOR 10.7249/j.ctt5hhsjk.17
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  3. ISBN 9781134880355
    .
  4. ISBN 9781134137664
    .
  5. ISBN 9781317801627
    .
  6. ^ Cyprus Archived 2014-12-22 at the Wayback Machine at Britains Small Wars
  7. ^ "UNFICYP Background - United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus". www.un.org. Archived from the original on 2010-02-28.
  8. ISBN 9780857730732
    – via Google Books.
  9. ISBN 9780691115122
    .
  10. ^ "Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus in Brussels - General Information". www.mfa.gov.cy.
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