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House of Lusignan - Part 3: Splendor and Shadow at the Mediterranean’s Crossroads
Beneath the soaring arches of the Cathedral of St. Sophia, sunlight dances through rose windows. The court of Lusignan Cyprus is at its most magnificent—its rulers, arbiters of a kingdom where East meets West, and every ambition burns with the promise of immortality. The fourteenth century brings the Lusignans to their zenith. Nicosia becomes a crossroads of cultures: French knights parade in silks, Italian merchants haggle in bustling markets, and Greek, Armenian, and Maronite clergy cross paths in incense-filled chapels.
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