Glafcos Clerides
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Glafcos Ioannou Clerides was a Cypriot statesman who served as President of Cyprus in 1974 and from 1993 to 2003.
Clerides in 1993
Makarios III
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Makarios III was a Greek Cypriot prelate and politician who served as Archbishop of the Church of Cyprus from 1950 to 1977 and as the first president of Cyprus between 1960 and July 1974, with a secon
Glafcos Clerides
…which, in turn, elected him as its first speaker. He held this position until 22 July 1976. In the first presidential election Clerides backed Makarios III, the other candidate being his father Ioannis Clerides. Following the 1974 coup d'état in which EOKA B, a Greek Cypriot unionist paramilitary organization…
Makarios in 1962
President Makarios during a state visit to West Berlin in 1962
Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr. greets Archbishop Makarios at New York City Hall
President Makarios in Bonn during a state visit to West Germany in 1962