CYPRUS

CYPRUS / ΚΥΠΡΟΣ – KIBRIS

Scenes and landscapes.
Sunrise at Protaras coast.
Eleventh stamp in a set of 15, issued on 18.03.1985.
Face value: 25 Cypriot cents.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 1,000,000 copies.
Size: 27 x 37 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 636.
- Scott No. 650.
- StampWorld No. 648.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 658
- Yvert et Tellier No. 632.

Protaras (Greek: Πρωταράς) is a predominantly tourist resort which comes under the administrative jurisdiction of Paralimni Municipality in Famagusta District, eastern Cyprus. Protaras has clear sky-blue waters and sandy beaches, the most well-known of which is Fig Tree Bay. In 2011 the population of the town was 20,230 people. In ancient times, where Protaras is now located, stood the old city-state of Leukolla.

Thanks to Dragan Buškulić for his contribution (https://worldofstamp2.wordpress.com/).

TURKEY

TURKEY / TÜRKİYE.

Independence of Cyprus. 
Map of Cyprus island.
Second stamp in a set of 2, issued on 16.08.1960.
Face value: 105 kuruş.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 1,000,000 copies.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 1766.
- Scott No. 1485.
- StampWorld No. 1801.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1908.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1559.

On August 16, 1960, Cyprus gained independence following the London-Zurich Agreement between the United Kingdom, Greece, and Turkey. On July 20, 1974, five days after the Greek military junta under Dimitrios Ioannides carried out a coup in Cyprus to unite the island with Greece, the Turkish army invaded the island, citing the right to intervene to restore the constitutional order of the 1960 Guarantee Treaty. The island was divided into two sectors, and on November 15, 1983, the Turkish Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktaş, proclaimed the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti), establishing a State of fact that is only recognized by Turkey.

CYPRUS

CYPRUS / ΚΥΠΡΟΣ - KIBRIS.

First International Congress of Cypriot Studies.
Map of Cyprus island made by Willem Janszoon and Joan Blaeu in 1647.
Second stamp in a set of 2, issued on 07.04.1969.
Face value: 50 mils of Cypriot piastre.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 628,985 copies.
Size: 42 x 29 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 318.
- Scott No. 325.
- StampWold No. 324.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 330.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 310.

Willem Janszoon Blaeu (Uitgeest or Alkmaar, 1571 - Amsterdam, October 21, 1638) was a Dutch cartographer and atlas editor. Disciple of Tycho Brahe, he acquired a basic experience in cosmography and celestial cartography. He opened his own printing press in Amsterdam, where he published practical guides for sailors, including Het Licht Der Zeevaart ("Navigational Light," 1608), based on Brahe's astronomical observations. His most notable works are Nova Orbis terrarum geographica ac hydrogen tabula (1606-1607), who uses the Mercator projection, and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, sive Novus Atlas (1647), from which the map represented on the stamp is taken. From 1620s he worke with son Joan Blaeu (Alkmaar, September 23, 1596 - Amsterdam, May 28, 1673), who was a prominent cartographer.

CYPRUS

CYPRUS / ΚΥΠΡΟΣ - KIBRIS.

First International Congress of Cypriot Studies.
Map of Cyprus island made by Henricus Hondius in 1638.
First stamp in a set of 2, issued on 07.04.1969.
Face value: 35 mils of Cypriot piastre.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 261,432 copies.
Size: 42 x 29 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 317.
- Scott No. 324.
- StampWold No. 323.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 329.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 309.

Henricus Hondius (Amsterdam, 1597 - 16 August 1651) was a Dutch engraver, cartographer, and publisher, son of the famous cartographer Jodocus Hondius who had started a map-making business in the city. Henricus obtained the original plates of the Mercator 1569 world map, and published a 1606 version of it: he relied on Mercator's maps to make his own cartography. The map depicted on the stamp was incorporated into one of the last editions of Mercator's Atlas, known as the Mercator-Hondius edition.

CYPRUS

CYPRUS (Northern) / Kuzey KIBRIS.

Cyprus stamp centenary and 20th anniversary of the Independence of Cyprus, 1960-1980.
Simplified map of Cyprus Island.
Second stamp in a set of 3, issued on 16.08.1980.
Face value: 15 Turkish lira.
Printed by Ajans Türk Matbaa. Ankara.

Catalogues
- Scott No. 91.
- StampWorld No. 91.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 99.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 81.

The first stamps from Cyprus, then under British administration, were issued on April 1, 1880. It was a set of six British stamps with CYPRUS overprint.

On August 16, 1960, Cyprus gained independence following the London-Zurich Agreement between the United Kingdom, Greece, and Turkey. On July 20, 1974, five days after the Greek military junta under Dimitrios Ioannides carried out a coup in Cyprus to unite the island with Greece, the Turkish army invaded the island, citing the right to intervene to restore the constitutional order of the 1960 Guarantee Treaty. The island was divided into two sectors, and on November 15, 1983, the Turkish Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktaş, proclaimed the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti), establishing a State of fact that is only recognized by Turkey.

URUGUAY

URUGUAY.

Visit of Archbishop Makarios, president of Chypre.
Stylized map of the island of Cyprus and portrait of Archbishop Makarios.
Airmail stamp issued on 15.02.1967.
Face value: 6.60 Uruguayan pesos.
Design: Ángel Medina Medina (1914-1980).
Printed in the Imprenta Nacional, Montevideo.

Catalogues
- StampWorld No. 1068.
- Yvert et Tellier, PA 305.

Makarios III (Μακάριος Γ΄), born Michael Christodoulou Mouskos (Μιχαήλ Χριστοδούλου Μούσκος) in Ano Panayia (Paphos District) on 13 August 1913, died in Nicosia on 3 August 1977, was a Cypriot clergyman and politician who served as the archbishop and primate of the autocephalous Church of Cyprus (1950–1977) and as the first president of the Republic of Cyprus (1960–1977).