The web page of old nicosia

Τίτλος

The web page of old nicosia

Θέμα

Web sites

Cyprus--History

Nicosia (Cyprus)

Δημιουργός

Apostolidou, Mariam

Πηγή

Higher Technical Institute

Το πλήρες κείμενο είναι διαθέσιμο από το Υπουργείο Ενέργειας, Εμπορίου Βιομηχανίας και Τουρισμού.

Εκδότης

Library of Cyprus University of Technology

Ημερομηνία

2002

Δικαιώματα

Απαγορεύεται η δημοσίευση ή αναπαραγωγή, ηλεκτρονική ή άλλη χωρίς τη γραπτή συγκατάθεση του δημιουργού και κάτοχου των πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων.

Μορφή

pdf

Γλώσσα

en

Τύπος

text

Αναγνωριστικό

CSD0271

Σύνοψη

In recent years, web publishing has become really popular and is used in every field of business and education. Through Internet there is a wide availability of information, addressing all kind of users' needs.
Therefore, when an individual or organization wants to present a subject to a wide audience, Internet provides the best way of accomplishing it.
Having a web site, it is possible that millions of people will visit it, which is the goal of every web developer. However, a successful website is the one that viewers keep coming back to it.
The goal of this project is not to attract million of users, since it will be created as a final diploma project for Higher Technical Institute.
Nevertheless, it will be designed as if it was published on the web and as if we wanted to attract as many visitors as possible.
The subject of this project is the representation of a "virtual tour" through the hundreds of years of Nicosia's history. History stages will be presented using multimedia tools and techniques that will finally be presented on a CD-ROM. Using a CD-ROM we warranty the storage of a huge quantity of information that is quickly and easily retrievable.
The final product of this project can be used by any student making a research on Nicosia's history or by a grown-up that feels like learning something more. Since it will be presented in a multimedia form, it will be quite interesting and charming exploring the history of Nicosia.
Multimedia methods can provide actual benefits on learning history material, which is quite difficult with the traditional books. It's interactivity, encourages the viewer to participate in the presentation and provides him/her the opportunity to experience facts of history in an excellent way.Nicosia is the biggest city in Cyprus. It has been the capital of the island since the seventh century A.D. when raiders devastated the coastal towns. It is built on the site of one of the great "city-kingdoms" of antiquity, called Ledra, which today lends its name to the principal shopping centre of the town.
Tradition ascribes its foundation to Lefkos, the son of Ptolemy Soter (312 - 285 B.C.) hence its Greek name Lefkosia. Nicosia rose to fame in the middle ages when the Frankish Louisianan kings and overlords who ruled the island, built fabulous palaces and residences as well as the fine Gothic Cathedral of St. Sophia and many churches. The Mamelukes of Egypt destroyed most of them in the fifteenth century but the cathedral
and many of the churches survived, though they were converted to Mosques after the Turkish occupation of the island in 1571 . The English followed the Turks and sadly Turkish occupation once again occurred in 1974, which as a result Nicosia remains the last divided capital in the world.