Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean with an area of 3,572 square miles, lying 40 miles south of Turkey, 77 miles west of Syria, 30o miles north of the Arab Republic of Egypt and 650 miles south-east of Greece. Two ranges of mountains, Troödos in the south and Pendadaktilos in the north, border the dry Messaoria plain which extends from Morphou Bay to Famagusta. The highest …