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Liberty Monument, Nicosia, Cyprus. An allegorical representation of liberty looks down upon the freeing of prisoners.

Capital of Cyprus, with leather, textile, and pottery industries; population (1993) 177,000. Nicosia was the residence of Lusignan kings of Cyprus 1192-1475. The Venetians, who took Cyprus in 1489, surrounded Nicosia with a high wall, which still exists; the city fell to the Turks in 1571. It was again partly taken by the Turks in the invasion in 1974.

In 1995 the Greek Cypriot national assembly voted unanimously to change the divided city's name to Lefkosia. Turkish Cypriots already referred to their half of the city as Lefkosha.
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