Life in the Last Capital City Still Split by a Border Zone
(WorldNews Greece)

A green line drawn on a map by a general of the British peace force in 1964 has come to define the world`s last officially divided capital city. Nicosia, the capital of the eastern-Mediterranean island of Cyprus, is a town spotted with military guard posts - its bustling streets sometimes end in walls of barrels and sandbags. Following armed clashes between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots - the island´s two largest ethnic communities - Nicosia was first partitioned in 1964. The Republic of Cyprus had only come into existence a few years earlier, in 1960, when the island gained independence from British rule. Nicosia´s north-south division was truly cemented in the summer of 1974, when Turkish...