Flag of Cyprus
For quite a long time Cyprus was essential for the Ottoman Empire and flew Turkish flags. By concurrence with the Turkish sovereign, notwithstanding, the British expected regulatory control of the island in 1878 and in this manner flew the Union Jack there, Flag of Cyprus. During World War I the island was attached by the British, and other frontier flags were then presented. For instance, to the British Red Ensign was added an identification with two lions; this was evidently the image of King Richard I of England, who in 1191 became leader of Cyprus as a feature of his contribution in the Crusades. The neighborhood people groups of the island, nonetheless, had no connection to British images; the Cypriot Greeks and Turks looked individually to the Greek and Turkish national flags as their own.
On August 16, 1960, the Republic of Cyprus was announced, with a national Flag of impartial plan. On a plain white field it bore the island in yellow outline with a green olive wreath (representing harmony) underneath. This Flag was not (and isn't) broadly utilized, be that as it may, on the grounds that the Greek and Turkish people group kept on flying the national flags of their unique countries. In 1974 a Turkish intrusion of the island, even with conceivable extension by Greece, prompted the foundation of a manikin state on the northern third of the island. In this way declaring itself autonomous (yet just perceived by Turkey), the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus received its very own Flag dependent on the Turkish model.
Land
Cyprus lies about 40 miles (65 km) south of Turkey, 60 miles (100 km) west of Syria, and 480 miles (770 km) southeast of mainland Greece. Its maximum length, from Cape Arnauti in the west to Cape Apostolos Andreas at the end of the northeastern peninsula, is 140 miles (225 km); the maximum north-south extent is 60 miles (100 km). It is the third largest Mediterranean island, after Sicily and Sardinia.
Relief
The rugged island of Cyprus resembles a saucepan, with the handle extending northeastward from the main part. The general pattern of its roughly 400-mile (640-km) coastline is indented and rocky, with long, sandy beaches. The Kyrenia Mountains—the western portion of which is also known as the Pentadaktylos for its five-fingered peak—extend for 100 miles (160 km) parallel to and just inland from the northern coast. It is the southernmost range of the great Alpine-Himalayan chain in the eastern Mediterranean; like much of that extensive mountain belt, it is formed largely of deformed masses of Mesozoic limestone, Flag of Cyprus.
Drainage and soils
The significant streams in Cyprus originate in the Troodos Mountains. The Pedieos, which is the biggest, streams toward the east toward Famagusta Bay; the Serakhis streams northwestward and the Karyotis toward the north to Morphou Bay; and the Kouris streams toward the south to Episkopi Bay. The streams are taken care of totally from the spillover of winter precipitation; in summer they become dry courses. The island's significant soil types consist of flawed Flag of Cyprus, gravelly lithosols found in the Troodos and Kyrenia mountains and agronomically gainful vertisols situated in the Mesaoria Plain and along the southeastern coast. Other, less-profitable soils incorporate solonchaks and solonetz soils. These last are discovered distinctly in confined saline pockets all through the island.