Archbishop Makarios deported from Cyprus: March 9th, 1956.(March Anniversaries)

From: History Today | Date: March 1, 2006 | Copyright information

MIKHAIL KHRISTODOLOU MOUSKOS, born to a Greek Cypriot farming family in 1913, was in his mid-thirties in 1950 when he became primate of the Greek Orthodox Church of Cyprus as Archbishop Makarios III. He took a leading role in the campaign for enosis (union) with Greece. 'Cyprus is Greek,' he proclaimed. 'Cyprus has been Greek since the dawn of history and it will remain Greek.'

The island had been ruled by outside powers for centuries. Part of the Roman Empire and then the Byzantine Empire, it was later governed for three hundred years by a French crusading dynasty, the ...

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