Employer of Record (EOR) in Cyprus

Summary

Cyprus is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, officially known as the Republic of Cyprus. It is located south of Turkey, west of Syria, northwest of Lebanon, Israel, and Palestine, north of Egypt, and southeast of Greece, and is the third largest and third most populated island in the Mediterranean.

Nicosia is the capital and largest city of Cyprus. The first human activity on the island is thought to have occurred during the 10th millennium BC. The well-preserved Neolithic settlement of Khirokitia is one of the oldest water wells in the world, and Cyprus is home to some of the world’s oldest water wells.

In the second millennium BC, Mycenaean Greeks settled Cyprus in two waves.

As a strategic position in the Eastern Mediterranean, it was subsequently controlled by a number of major forces, including the Assyrian, Egyptian, and Persian empires, from whom Alexander the Great captured the island in 333 BC.

Ptolemaic Egypt, the Classical and Eastern Roman Empires, Arab caliphates for a brief time, the French Lusignan dynasty, and the Venetians were all followed by over three centuries of Ottoman rule between 1571 and 1878.

Cyprus was put under the UK’s administration in 1878, and was officially annexed by the UK in 1914, based on the Cyprus Convention.

The island’s future became a source of contention between the island’s two most populous ethnic groups, Greek Cypriots (77% of the population in 1960) and Turkish Cypriots (18% of the population).

The Greek Cypriot community sought enosis, or union with Greece, from the 19th century onwards, which became a Greek national policy in the 1950s. he Turkish Cypriot population initially supported British rule, then requested the island’s annexation to Turkey, and, in the 1950s, jointly with Turkey, developed a taksim regime, partitioning Cyprus and establishing a Turkish polity in the north. 

Cyprus gained independence in 1960 after nationalist turmoil in the 1950s. The crisis of 1963–64 exacerbated intercommunal conflict between the two groups, resulting in the displacement of over 25,000 Turkish Cypriots into enclaves and the elimination of Turkish Cypriot representation in the republic. In an attempt at enosis, Greek Cypriot nationalists and elements of the Greek military junta staged a coup on July 15, 1974. This intervention sparked the Turkish invasion of Cyprus on July 20, which resulted in the conquest of the present-day territory of Northern Cyprus and the displacement of over 150,000 Greek and Turkish Cypriots.

In 1983, Turkey unilaterally declared a separate Turkish Cypriot state in the north; the decision was widely criticized by the international community, with Turkey being the only country to recognize the new state. These incidents, as well as the subsequent political situation, are still a source of contention. the people of Arabia together and established a single Islamic religious polity in the early seventh century. Following his death in 632, his followers quickly spread Muslim rule beyond Arabia, capturing vast and unparalleled swaths of land in a matter of decades.

The Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, and Fatimid caliphates, as well as various other dynasties in Asia, Africa, and Europe, were established by Arab dynasties originating in modern-day Saudi Arabia. The area of modern-day Saudi Arabia was previously divided into four distinct historical regions: Hejaz, Najd, parts of Eastern Arabia, and Southern Arabia. King Abdulaziz founded the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932. Through a series of conquests, he unified the four regions into a single state, starting in 1902 with the capture of Riyadh, the ancestral home of his ancestors, the House of Saud. Since then, Saudi Arabia has become an authoritarian absolute monarchy ruled by an Islamist hereditary dictatorship. The Wahhabi religious movement within Sunni Islam has been dubbed “the dominant characteristic of Saudi culture,” with its global expansion largely funded by the oil and gas trade. The two holiest mosques in Islam, Al-Masjid al-Haram and Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, are often referred to as “the Land of the Two Holy Mosques.” Arabic is the state’s official language. On March 3, 1938, petroleum was found, followed by several other discoveries in the Eastern Province.