{"id":7531,"date":"2004-05-26T03:09:31","date_gmt":"2004-05-26T01:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/26\/cyprus-as-it-was-in-1879\/"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"cyprus-as-it-was-in-1879","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/26\/cyprus-as-it-was-in-1879\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyprus as it was in 1879"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/20040526-blank_cyprus.gif\" alt=\"\">I&#8217;ve stambled upon an <a title=\"Cyprus. As I Saw It In 1879\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.net\/etext03\/cyprs10.txt\">interesting book<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>.  The book is called &#8220;Cyprus.  As I Saw It In 1879&#8221; and it is written by by Sir Samuel White Baker.<\/p>\n<p>Those who don&#8217;t like reading books, can imagine this text as a blog of this Samuel White Baker guy.  It is an good set of travelling notes, that includes descriptions of the places and people, notes on politics and economy, as well as observations and statistics.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\t<\/p>\n<p>Here is an interesting statistical sample from the first quarter of the book:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>\n(The census of Nicosia, taken on 31st January, 1879, represents the\npopulation as follows:--<\/p>\n\t<p>    No. of houses:--  2,463<\/p>\n\t<p>    Population by sex:--<\/p>\n\t<p>    Males above 15 . . . . . . . .  3,773\n    Males under 15 . . . . . . . .  1,900\n    Females above 14 . . . . . . .  3,718\n    Females under 14 . . . . . . .  1,806\n    Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,197<\/p>\n\t<p>    Population by religion:--<\/p>\n\t<p>    English . . . . . . . . . . . .    28\n    Greek Church. . . . . . . . . . 5,251\n    Catholics . . . . . . . . . . .   121\n    Mohammedans . . . . . . . . . . 5,628\n    Armenians . . . . . . . . . . .   166\n    Jews. . . . . . . . . . . . . .     3\n    Total . . . . . . . . . . . .  11,197  )\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I&#8217;ve stambled upon an interesting book at Project Gutenberg. The book is called &#8220;Cyprus. As I Saw It In 1879&#8221; and it is written by by Sir Samuel White Baker. Those who don&#8217;t like reading books, can imagine this text as a blog of this Samuel White Baker guy. It is an good set of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/26\/cyprus-as-it-was-in-1879\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cyprus as it was in 1879<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-7531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13521,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/03\/welcome-to-cyprus\/","url_meta":{"origin":7531,"position":0},"title":"Welcome to Cyprus","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 3, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I've said it a few times that one of the good things about Cyprus is that there are so many people from so many different cultures living in peace here. \u00a0 But I rarely actually researched how many foreigners are here and from which parts of the world they come.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16018,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/20\/cyprus-prison-population\/","url_meta":{"origin":7531,"position":1},"title":"Cyprus prison population","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The other day I was reading Cyprus Mail's coverage of Cyprus prison overpopulation problem. \u00a0As any other problem it does involve attention. \u00a0But for me personally the article was more useful with absolute numbers rather than relative. \u00a0This paragraph in particular: Cyprus\u2019 total prison population in June this year, including\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11988,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/02\/internet-users-in-cyprus\/","url_meta":{"origin":7531,"position":2},"title":"Internet users in Cyprus","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Blogoscoped reports that Google has expanded their Public Data Onebox functionality and now you can see the Internet penetration rate for population of any country. \u00a0All you need to do is search for \"internet users in cyprus\" (or use your favourite country). \u00a0Currently, it reports Cyprus having 38% of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/internet_in_cyprus.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":15434,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/25\/civil-servants-salaries-in-cyprus\/","url_meta":{"origin":7531,"position":3},"title":"Civil servants salaries in Cyprus","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 25, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Cyprus Mail reports: Around 65 per cent of civil servants (some 35,000) are paid wages that are substantially higher than the national average. And if that wasn't enough, The discrepancy between the wages of civil servants and the general population may be substantial, yet even this is slightly misleading. Civil\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27038,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/02\/internet-users-in-cyprus\/","url_meta":{"origin":7531,"position":4},"title":"Internet users in Cyprus","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"7 years ago, to the day, I've published this post, containing the Google screenshot for the graph of the Internet users in Cyprus. \u00a0It used to be 38% of the population. Today I decided to check exactly the same Google query and see how that number has changed. \u00a0Here is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"internet-users-in-cyprus","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/internet-users-in-cyprus-500x445.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11136,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/02\/amsterdam-netherlands\/","url_meta":{"origin":7531,"position":5},"title":"Amsterdam, Netherlands","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Tomorrow morning I am leaving for The Next Web Conference, which will take place in Amsterdam, Netherlands.\u00a0 I spent a few minutes in Wikipedia, reading about both Amsterdam and Netherlands.\u00a0 Here are some interesting highlights (direct quotes from Wikipedia): The Netherlands is often called Holland. 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