Cyprus Medieval Arts
An island in the eastern Mediterranean, located a short distance from the southern coasts of Asia Minor and the Syrian ones, Cyprus is morphologically constituted by a large central plain, the Messaria, bordered by two mountain ranges: the Kerynia mountains, which form a long bulwark the whole northern coast, and the Troodos massif, which occupies the southwestern area.Located on the routes that connected Egypt with the ports of the western Mediterranean, Cyprus reached great prosperity in Roman times and the…