List of wars involving Cyprus

This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Cyprus and its predecessor states.

*e.g. result unknown or indecisive/inconclusive, result of internal conflict inside Cyprus, status quo ante bellum, or a treaty or peace without a clear result.

DateName of the battlePart of1st combattant2nd combattantResult306 BCBattle of Salamis (306 BC)Fourth War of the DiadochiAntigonid dynastyPtolemaic dynastyDecisive Antigonid victory746Battle of KeramaiaArab–Byzantine warsByzantine EmpireUmayyad CaliphateByzantine victory17 September 1570 - 5 August 1571Siege of FamagustaOttoman–Venetian War (1570–1573) (Ottoman–Venetian wars)Ottoman EmpireRepublic of VeniceOttoman victory Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results Greco-Persian WarsGreek city-states: Athens Sparta Thebes Thespiae Cyprus Delian LeagueAchaemenid EmpireGreek vassals: Halicarnassus Thessalia Boeotia Thebes Macedon Greek victory Macedon, Thrace, and Ionia regain their independence from Persia Kitos WarRoman EmpireJews Roman victoryhttps://www.heritage-history.com/index.php?c=resources&s=war-dir&f=wars_romanjewish#kitos The second Jewish Roman war occurred forty-five years after the fall of Jerusalem during Trajan's invasion of Parthia. It started in a Jewish community in Cyrene. The rebels destroyed many Roman Temples, and killed both Greeks and Romans. The revolt spread to Alexandria and Cyprus, where thousands of citizens were killed, both Jew and Gentile. The rebellions were disordered mobs, rather than armies, however, and the engagements were riots rather than battles. The governor of Egypt used his legions to protect the unmolested cities, but relied on Trajan to send enough forces to put down the rebels. Trajan eventually raised an army to put down the rebellions in Cyrene and Alexandria, and at the same time, he tried to prevent more rebellions among Jews in his newly won Mesopotamia regions by proactively killing Jews in some of the major cities in the region before they had a chance to rebel. The loss of life during these rebellions was terrific, especially in North Africa, and many of the Jewish urban strongholds outside of Judea were destroyed. Status quo ante bellum Fifth Crusade(1217–1221)Crusaders:

Kingdom of Germany Levant:

Latin Empire Military orders:Muslim forces: Ayyubid Sultanate Ayyubid victory Eight-year truce between the Ayyubids and the Crusaders War of the Lombards(1228–1243). Kingdom of CyprusAnti-Imperial faction in the Kingdom of Jerusalem Acre Beirut Arsuf Caesarea Republic of GenoaKnights TemplarPapacyHoly Roman EmpirePro-Imperial faction in the Kingdom of Jerusalem Tyre Jerusalem Principality of Antioch and County of TripoliRepublic of PisaKnights HospitallerTeutonic Knights Victory of anti-Imperial faction of local barons Lord Edward's crusade(1271–1272) Bahris Inconclusive Jerusalem remains under Mamluks control Arsuf, Safed, Jaffa, Antioch, Krak des Chevaliers, captured by the Mamluks Ten-year truce between Mamluks and Crusaders Smyrniote crusades(1343–1351) Knights Hospitaller Kingdom of Cyprus Dauphiné of Viennois Papal StatesEmirate of Aydin Inconclusive Alexandrian Crusade(9–12 October 1365) Knights Hospitaller Mamluk Sultanate Crusader victory Cyprus Emergency(1955–1959) EOKA British Cyprus Turkey Special Warfare Department Turkish Resistance Organisation London and Zürich Agreements Independence of the Republic of Cyprus Enosis and Taksim not achieved Britain retains bases at Akrotiri and Dhekelia EOKA not defeated Cyprus crisis of 1963–64 Cyprus TMT (1964) End of Turkish Cypriot participation in government Establishment of Green Line and partition of Nicosia Turkish Cypriot population movement into enclaves Deployment of UNFICYP in 1964 Cyprus crisis of 1967 Cyprus TMTGreek Cypriot control of Agios Theodoros and Kophinou General Georgios Grivas and 12,000 Greek troops removed from Cyprus Turkish invasion of Cyprus(1974) Turkish victoryJuliet Pearse, "Troubled Northern Cyprus fights to keep afloat" in Cyprus. Grapheio Typou kai Plērophoriōn, Cyprus. Grapheion Dēmosiōn Plērophoriōn, Foreign Press on Cyprus,　Public Information Office, 1979, p. 15. Greek military junta collapses on 24 July 1974 200,000 Greek Cypriots displaced: "As a result of the Turkish invasion and occupation, perhaps as many as 200,000 Greeks living in northern Cyprus fled their homes and became refugees in the south. It is estimated that 638 Turkish troops died in the fighting, with another 2,000 wounded. Another 1,000 or so Turkish civilians were killed or wounded. Cypriot Greeks, together with Greek soldiers dispatched to the island, suffered 4,500–6,000 killed or wounded, and 2,000–3,000 more missing." 50,000 Turkish Cypriots displacedKatholieke Universiteit Brussel, 2004 "Euromosaic III: Presence of Regional and Minority Language Groups in the New Member States", p. 18 Turkey occupies 36.2% of Cyprus Formation of the Autonomous Turkish Cypriot AdministrationEgyptian raid on Larnaca International Airport (1978) Cyprus EgyptCypriot Victory2026 Iran war: 2026 Iranian strikes on Akrotiri and Dhekelia Cyprus Greece France Iran HezbollahAllied victory

Other armed conflicts involving Cyprus Ionian Revolt 499-493 BC

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