State · 1960 – present
Cyprus
A state of 1960 – present — 66 years, still standing in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced British Cyprus. It was replaced by Turkish Cypriot General Committee. The atlas records 15 things within it — wars and battles 3 · regime change 1 · unrest and atrocity 2 · famine and plague 1 · people 8. Its line of rulers holds 8 people.
- Still standing: the span runs to the year of the build, 2026.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 66 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 8
- the President of Cyprus
- Most ground
- 11,400 km²
- in 1961
- Within it
- 15
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 4
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- British Cyprus · replaces · 1878 – 1960
After it
- Turkish Cypriot General Committee · replaced by
Rulers
The line of President of Cyprus - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Makarios III | 1960 – 1977 | 17 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Spyros Kyprianou | 1977 – 1978 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Spyros Kyprianou | 1983 – 1988 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| George Vassiliou | 1988 – 1993 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Glafcos Clerides | 1993 – 2003 | 10 years | lost an election, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Tassos Papadopoulos | 2003 – 2008 | 5 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Demetris Christofias | 2008 – 2013 | 5 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Nicos Anastasiades | 2013 – 2023 | 10 years | ending not on record | |
| Nikos Christodoulides | 2023 – in office | in office since 2023 | still in office |
8 rulers, 8 with terms dated as terms, covering 1960 – 2023. Median reign 5 years. 0 of 8 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.73, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
11,400 km² in 1970, 7,100 km² in 2020; at its largest 11,400 km² in 1970. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
.svg/120px-Flag_of_Cyprus_(1960).svg.png)
flag, 1960 – 1960Flag of Cyprus (1960) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Cyprus_(1960%E2%80%932006).svg.png)
flag, 1960 – 2006Flag of Cyprus (1960–2006) · Public domain 
flag, from 2006Flag of Cyprus · Public domain .svg/120px-Coat_of_arms_of_Cyprus_(2006).svg.png)
coat of arms, from 2006Coat of arms of Cyprus (2006) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Borb , modified by User:Di (they-them)
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1900 – 199913 rows · 3 wars and battles · 2 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Nicos Anastasiades · ruler · 1946 – present
- Demetris Christofias · ruler · 1946 – 2019
- Makarios III · ruler · 1913 – 1977
- Tassos Papadopoulos · ruler · 1934 – 2008
- Nikos Christodoulides · ruler · 1973 – present
- Turkish invasion of Cyprus · war · 1974
- Glafcos Clerides · ruler · 1919 – 2013
- George Vassiliou · ruler · 1931 – present
and 5 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20992 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- COVID-19 pandemic in Cyprus · plague · 2020
- 2011 Turkish Cypriot protests · unrest · 2011
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood66 years
stood longer than 38% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held11,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 16% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century1.0
had more wars on record per century than 94% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median5 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 18% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record8
has more rulers on record than 76% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 8 causes the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1950 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1961, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q229 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.