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‘Cyprus.’ [‎12v] (24/184)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (91 folios). It was created in 1878. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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CITRUS.
The Venetian
Republic gra
dually
acquires su
premacy in
Cyprus.
The last descendant of the family of Queen Catherine of Cyprus,
and the last direct representative of the Cornaro house, was M.
Catherine Corner, who died at the beginning of this century. He
bequeathed the splendid Saint Cassien Palace to Pope Pius YU,
who united it to the pontifical property. Gregory VII gave it to
the Abbds Cavagnis, who afterwards ceded it to the Venetian
municipality, and it is now the “ Mont de Pidt<S ” of Venice.
As soon as the fact of King Jacques IPs The branch of the British Government of India with responsibility for managing political relations between British-ruled India and its surrounding states, and by extension the Gulf, during the period 1937-47. death was known in
Venice, the Senate of that city began to interest itself in the affairs
of Cyprus, and on the 22nd August, 1473, Captain General Pierre
Mocenigo was ordered to take the fleet of the Republic at once to
Cyprus “ in order to watch over the security of the Queen and the
country;” and on the 2nd September, the Senate wrote to the
Queen assuring her of the goodwill of Venice, promising protec
tion in all eventualities, and informing her that Mocenigo had
been ordered to leave at least five galleys in the port of Fama
gusta at her disposal. It appears that eight galleys were left,
and the crews maintained at the expense of the republic, but on
the 7th November, the Queen was asked to provide them with
bread. On the 14th November, 1473, Andre Cornaro, Auditor of
Cyprus, and uncle of the Queen, was murdered at Famagusta,
and then Mocenigo received fresh orders from Venice, dated 20th
December, 1473, to watch over all the affairs of Cyprus, to main
tain the Queen and her infant son in possession of tho throne, to
prevent the establishment of any foreign power in the island, and
to occupy all the strong places. On the 6th January, 1474, all the
Venetian cavalry and infantry in Cyprus were placed under the
command of the proveditor Jacques Marcello, and by degrees,
having occupied with their troops all the fortresses, having exiled
all their chief opponents, and calmed the popular feeling, the Vene
tian Republic acquired complete ascendancy in the island.
On the 28th March, 1474, the Senate decided that forthwith two
Venetian counsellors and one proveditor should reside in Cyprus,
to assist the Queen in the government and to command the forces
of the Republic. Francois Minio and Louis Gabriel, were the
counsellors, and Jean Soranzo, the proveditor first elected; minute
instructions were given to them regarding the management of the
revenue, the general government of the country, and the armament
of the fortresses.
From August, 1474, when the infant King Jacques III died,
the island though nominally ruled by Queen Catherine, was, for
all practical purposes, entirely under Venetian authority, and no
order of any importance could be enacted by the Queen, until it
had received the approbation of the republic or the counsellors.
Matters continued so until 1488, when, in consequence of the war
with the Turks, the Republic of Venice determined to take full
possession of Cyprus, the Senate considering the island valuable
not only as regards commerce, but as a good naval and military
station, and further, as the most favourable position from which to
threaten and annoy the southern Ottoman provinces, and to main
tain friendly relations with the Persians, whose co-operation was of
great importance. Accordingly Georges Cornaro, brother of the

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Report compiled by Captain Albany Robert Savile of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment, in the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General’s Department, Horse Guards. The report was published and printed in London under the superintendence of HM’s Stationery Office in 1878. The report contains fourteen chapters, labelled I to XIV, as follows:

  • I: a history of Cyprus, from ancient times to the occuption of the island by Britain in 1878
  • II: geography and topography
  • III: towns, villages, and antiquities
  • IV: communications (inland, maritime, and telegraphic)
  • V: coast, harbours
  • VI: climate
  • VII: natural history
  • VIII: agricultural production
  • IX: geology and mineralogy
  • X: population and inhabitants, including their character, language, religion and education
  • XI: internal administration (civil, ecclesiastical, military)
  • XII: manufacture and industry
  • XIII: trade and revenue
  • XIV: currency, weights and measures, list of authorities on Cyprus, cartography of Cyprus

The volume includes a sketch map of Cyprus at the rear (f 91).

Extent and format
1 volume (91 folios)
Arrangement

A content page at the front of the volume (ff 4-5), and an alphabetically arranged index at the rear (ff 87-89) both refer to the volume’s original printed pagination sequence.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 92; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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