EU: On the fort, Nicosia, Cyprus (1878)
1878 Nicosia, Cyprus
Fortifications in Nicosia photographed in 1878, the year the island passed from Ottoman to British administration under the Cyprus Convention; the walls encircling the Cypriot capital date to the earlier Venetian period.
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![EU: Nicosia, Cyprus. Photograph by John Thomson, [L0056641] (1878), Nicosia, 1878](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/88ddbec756ea42bab3758dde9d89e7b2.jpg?width=400)
