Cyprus, a fertile, mountainous island in the Levant, capital Nicosia (12); geographically connected with Asia, and the third largest in the Mediterranean, being 140 m. long and 60 m. broad; government ceded to Great Britain in 1878 by the Sultan, on condition of an annual tribute; is a British colony under a colonial governor or High Commissioner; is of considerable strategic importance to Britain; yields cereals, wines, cotton, &c., and has 400 m. of good road, and a large transit trade.
Population (circa 1900) given as 21,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Cyprian, St. * Cyrenaics