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Ten city-kingdoms of Cyprus Δέκα πόλεις-βασίλεια της Κύπρου (Greek) | |
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| Ethnic groups | Greeks, Phoenicians, other Cypriot populations |
| Today part of |  Cyprus |
| History of Cyprus |
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The ten city-kingdoms of Cyprus are listed in a 673–672 BC inscription attributed to Esarhaddon, who ruled the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 681 BC to 669 BC. These kingdoms were Greek, Greco-Phoenician, and Greco-Eteocypriot in origin.[1]
List
Greek
Greco-Phoenician
- Kition, Κίτιον
Greco-Eteocypriot
- Amathus, Ἀμαθούς
See also
References
- ^ Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge 1880, “The history of Esarhaddon (son of Sennacherib) king of Assyria” (The Names of the Twenty-two Kings, p. 104-108)