Tag: history of Cyprus
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Lusignans- short video from Lapidary Museum
House of Lusignan ruled Cyprus between 1192 and 1489, when they bought it from Richard the Lion Heart who conquered it in 1191. He arrived in Cyprus to rescue his fiancee Berengaria whom he then married on May 12, 1191. Berengaria and Richard the Lion Heart married at the Chapel of Saint George in Limassol…