Cyprus

(21), a fertile, mountainous island in the Levant, capital Nicosia (12); geographically connected with Asia, and the third largest in the Mediterranean, being 140 m. long and 60 m. broad; government ceded to Great Britain in 1878 by the Sultan, on condition of an annual tribute; is a British colony under a colonial governor or High Commi ioner; is of considerable strategic importance to Britain; yields cereals, wines, cotton, ., and has 400 m. of good road, and a large transit trade.