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Blue Beret Camp
Blue Beret Camp, is a base camp and headquarters located at the former Nicosia International Airport on the west side of the city of Nicosia, on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, which forms the headquarters of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP). History The camp was established within the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus in 1964 to provide a command centre and residential accommodation for troops of the seven contingents serving with the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus ('UNFICYP'). In 1972 Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations visited the camp and in 2001 Bertie Ahern, the Irish Taoiseach, visited the camp. Wayne's Keep Close by is Wayne's Keep, a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery which provides graves primarily for aircrew who died during the Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyprus
Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geographically in Western Asia, its cultural ties and geopolitics are overwhelmingly Southern European. Cyprus is the third-largest and third-most populous island in the Mediterranean. It is located north of Egypt, east of Greece, south of Turkey, and west of Lebanon and Syria. Its capital and largest city is Nicosia. The northeast portion of the island is ''de facto'' governed by the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which was established after the 1974 invasion and which is recognised as a country only by Turkey. The earliest known human activity on the island dates to around the 10th millennium BC. Archaeological remains include the well-preserved ruins from the Hellenistic period such as Salamis and Kourion, and Cypr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
