Leyte (CV 32) - Naval Cruise Book

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FAMAGUSTA, CYPRUS-OCTOBER 29-31 ON OCTOBER 29, we stopped at Famagusta for the weekend. Cyprus, the third largest island in the Mediterranean, was the third British colony visited by the LEYTE. The island was origi- nally settled by the Phoenicians, then ruled in turn by the Greeks, Romans, Moors, various Christian rulers, the Venetians and then the Turks from 1571 to 1918. Turkey lost Cyprus in 1918 as a result of the First World War. Famagusta abounds with historic landmarks and signs of the fierce fighting between the Christians and the Turks during the Middle Ages. [row.frt ' lOsToli T, ' • • To Sy io. The massive city walls— three miles of them The ruins of the ancient city of Salamis, three miles north. Destroyed by the Arabs in 641. The old town with the LEYTE anchored in the bay Ruins of the Venetian Palace. Here General Bragadine was skinned alive by the Turks in 1571 after he came out under the flag of truce.

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The Mosque of St. Sophia originally built in the 14th Century as the Cathedral of St. Nicholas. - ' x i - - ' ■ m mm OflM Visiting the Othello Tower. Here, according to Willie Shakespeare, poor Desdemona was strangled by her husband. Touring the new city by carriage