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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: CYPRUS
 - ceded to Turkey in 1573
 - and Britain
Cyrenaica - taken by the Arabs in 642
- in Libya
- campaign in 1940-41
Cyril - patriarch of Alexandria
Cyril, St - apostle of the Slavs
- and the Slavonic liturgy
- and translation of the Bible
cyrillic alphabet - and Slavonic languages
Cyrus - communication system
Cyrus the Great
Cyrus the Younger - Persian rebel
Czechoslovakia - sells arms to Egypt
Czechs - Slav tribe in Bohemia
Czechs, Old and Young - political parties
da capo - in opera arias
Dachau - Hitler's first concentration camp
Dacian Wars - 2nd century AD
Dacko, David - Central African Republic
Dadd, Richard
Daddah, Ould - president of Mauritania
Dad's Army
Dafne - the first opera
Dagobert I - Merovingian king
Dagomba - tribal group in Togo
Dahl, Roald
Dahlak Islands - and Ottoman Turks
Dahomey - African kingdom
- French protectorate from 1882
- name changed in 1975 to Benin
Daibutsu - bronze sculpture at Kamakura
Dáil Eireann - assembles in 1919
Daily Express (British newspaper)
Daily Mail - the British empire in 1897
- brief history
Daily Worker (British newspaper) - and the Communist Party
Daimler - firm in Coventry
Dakar - as deep-water harbour
- as capital of French West Africa
Daladier, Édouard - at Munich
- declaration of war in 1939
Dalai Lama - the first
Dalmatia - and Venice from 1420
- ceded to Napoleon in 1805
Dalmeny House
Dalriada - kingdom in Ireland and Scotland
- brief account
Dalrymple, Hew - and the convention of Sintra
Dalton, Hugh
Dalton, John
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