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HISTORY OF THE POLITICS OF GEOGRAPHY
GEOGRAPHY OF FOREIGN TRADE
YEARS OF CHANGE
1500
709
449
297 BC
AD 395
945
1192
1489
1571
1878
1960
1974
2015
1300
669
386
240 BC
AD 476
965
1200
570
330
58 BC
AD 648
1185
1000
525
301
27 BC
AD 750
1191
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Agostino Barbarigo—74th Doge of the Venetian Republic [AD 1486–1501]
- Amasis I—Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt [570–526 BC]
- Artaxerxes II—King of the Persian Achaemenid Empire [404–359 BC]
- Archbishop Makarios—First President of Cyprus [AD 1960–1977]
- As-Saffah—first caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate [AD 750–754]
- Aphrodite — goddess of love in Greek mythology
- Victoria is the Queen of Great Britain [AD 1837–1901]. Victoria has been on the throne for over 63 years—more than any other British monarch. The Victorian era coincided with the Industrial Revolution and the heyday of the British Empire.
- Gaius Julius Caesar— Roman statesman and politician, general, senior consul [59–44 BC], proconsul of Cisalpine Gaul [58–48 BC], dictator of the Roman Republic [49–44 BC]
- Guy de Lusignan — French knight, prominent member of the Crusades, King of the Kingdom of Jerusalem [AD 1186–1192], King of the Kingdom of Cyprus [AD 1192–1194]
- Denktash, Rauf — First President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus [AD 1974–2005]
- Jacques II —King of the Kingdom of Cyprus [AD 1464–1473]. Candidate for suitors (1466) Sophia Palaiologos (refused). Shortly after his death, the Kingdom of Cyprus ceased to exist, Cyprus was annexed to the Venetian Republic.
- ZENON OF CHINESE (ZENON THE STOIC) (346–267 BC) —philosopher
- Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus— Despot of Cyprus (within the Byzantine Empire) [AD 1184–1185], Emperor of Cyprus [AD 1185–1191]
- Cambyses II—King of the Persian Achaemenid Empire [530–522 BC]
- Kinir - the mythical first king of Cyprus, the founder of the Cypriot cult and the first priest of Aphrodite
- Nikephoros II Phocas—Emperor of the Byzantine Empire [AD 963–969]
- Octavian August— Roman statesman and politician, 1st Emperor of the Roman Empire [27 BC - AD 14]
- Pedias —annual archon of Athens [449 BC]
- Ptolemy I Soter — Ptolemaic king of Egypt [305–282 BC]
- Ptolemy III Euergetes — Ptolemaic king of Egypt [246–221 BC]
- Richard I the Lionheart—King of England [AD 1189–1199], participant in the 3rd Crusade. In 1191, the bride and sister of King Richard of England were shipwrecked in Cyprus and were captured by the Emperor of Cyprus, Isaac Komnenos. In response, Richard captured Cyprus and began to rule the island himself.
- Sayf al-Dawla — emir of the Hamdanid dominions in Aleppo [AD 945–967]
- Sargon II—King of Assyria [722–705 BC]
- Seleucus I Nicator — commander of Alexander the Great, diadochus, king of the Seleucid State [312–281 BC]
- Selim II — Sultan of the Ottoman Empire [AD 1566–1574
- Teucer - in Greek mythology, an archer, the hero of the Trojan War
- Uthman ibn Affan - one of the companions of Muhammad and the third Caliph of the Arab Caliphate [AD 644–656]
- Charlotte—Queen of the Kingdom of Cyprus [AD 1458–1460]. Her mother is from the Byzantine Palaiologos dynasty. Deposed by her half-brother, the future King Jacques II
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