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The Pedieos River is a silent witness of Nicosia's history. The largest city in Cyprus is the only divided capital in the world, as we already wrote in our post: Nicosia, the divided capital city of Cyprus (https://www.viotopo.com/news/nicosia-the-divided-capital -city-of-Cyprus-57). Its winding medieval walls are inescapable testimony when different peoples tried to conquer it over the years.

December 30, 1963, is an essential date in the history of Cyprus. That day, British Army Officer Michael Perrett-Young grabbed a pencil and drew a green line on Nicosia's map. He did it from one extreme to the other. This "arbitrary" decision had one purpose: to end the fighting between the Greek Cypriots and the Turkish Cypriots.