Ancient Coin Stories

Initial Mycenaean settlement at Kition is destroyed.

Approximate foundation of the Kingdom of Kourion.

Religious part of Kition is abandoned, though the rest remains in use.

Much of Kition is rebuilt by settlers from Tyre.

Cyprus, including Kourion and Paphos, comes under Assyrian rule.

Cyprus, including Salamis, Amathos, Paphos, Soloi, Lapethos, Kourion, and Kition, liberates itself from the domination of Tyre.

The kings of Cyprus, including Salamis, Kition, Amathos, and Paphos, pay homage to Sargon II of Assyria.

Damasos is recorded as King of Kourion.

Kition comes under Egyptian domination.

Amathos is mentioned during the reign of Pharaoh Amasis II of Egypt.

Cyprus, including Kourion, Amathos, Paphos, Lapethos, Salamis, Soloi, and Kition, comes under Egyptian administration.

All of Cyprus, including Kourion, Amathos, Paphos, Lapethos, Salamis, Soloi, and Kition,comes under Persian control.

Amathos remains loyal to the Persian Empire during the Ionian Revolt, a rebellion of Greek city-states in Asia Minor against Persian rule. Kition rebels.

Stasanor, King of Kourion, allies with Onesilos, King of Salamis, against the Persians. Stasanor betrays Onesilos, leading to a Persian victory.

Peace of Kallias, an agreement between Athens and Persia after a series of conflicts between them. In Cyprus, Amathos, Kelenderis, and Salamis remain under Persian control but maintains its local autonomy. Ephesos, Miletos, Priene, Klazomenai, and Phokaia also obtain some autonomy.

An Athenian fleet under Kimon departs Kition and is attacked by a Persian fleet near Salamis. The Athenians win the encounter.

Kimon of Athens frees Marion from the Persians.

Abdemon deposes a Phoenician ruler and becomes King of Salamis.

Evagoras I takes the throne of Salamis from Abdemon.

Orontas and Tiribazos defeat Evagoras I at Kition.

Nikokles succeeds his father Evagoras I on the throne of Salamis.

Pumiathon ascends the throne of Kition after the death of his father Melekiaton.

Androkles of Amathos sails with the Aegean fleet of Pharnabazos III and Autophradates.

Beginning of reign of Pnytagoras in Salamis.

Artaxerxes III recognizes Pnytagoras as king of Salamis in exchange for loyalty.

The major cities in Cyprus – Salamis under Pnytagoras, Kourion, Paphos, and Soloi – rebel against Artaxerxes III Okhos. He sends Idreios along with the Athenian Phokion to quell the rebellion.

Pumiathon or Kition purchases the kingdom of Tamassos, rich in copper, for 50 talents. Its king then retires to Amathos.

Amathos under Androkles, Salamis, and Soloi in Cyprus submit to Alexander the Great after his victory over the Persian Empire at the Battle of Issos. Chios also comes under Macedon.

Androkles of Amathos, Pnytagoras of Salamis, and Pasikrates of Kourion join Alexander the Great at the Siege of Tyre, where their qinqueremes are destroyed.

The flagships of Pnytagoras of Salamis, Androkles of Amathos, and Pasikrates of Kourion are destroyed while anchored in the harbor of Tyre.

Pnytagoras of Salamis is given Tamasos, previously the territory of Pumiathon of Kition, by Alexander the Great.

Nikokreon of Salamis and Pasikrates of Soloi pay homage to Alexander III in Phoenicia and take part in games.

Nikokreon becomes king of Salamis with either the death or removal of Pnytagoras.

The Akropolis is constructed in Kourion.

Androkles of Amathos, Nikokreon of Salamis, Pasikrates of Soloi, and Nikokles of Paphos ally themselves with Ptolemy against Perdikkas.

Ptolemy I makes Nikokreon of Salamis strategos of Cyprus.

Androkles of Amathos forced by Seleukos into being neutral between him and Antigonos.

Pumiathon of Kition agrees to an alliance with Antigonos Monophthalmos.

Pasikrates of Kourion rejects an alliance with Antigonos Monophthalmos and remains loyal to Ptolemy I Soter.

Ptolemy I Soter gives Seleukos I Nikator a small fleet, which he uses to force Asandros to ally with Ptolemy. He also takes Erythrai and besieges Kition along with Menelaos.

An inscription at Delos names Androkles of Amathos as the dedicator of a gold crown.

Menelaus, brother to Ptolemy I, conquers the city states of Cyprus – Salamis, Kition, Kourion, Amathos, Lapethos, Paphos, and Soloi. He kills Pumiathon, king of Kition and arrests Praxippos of Lapethos, and destroys Marion with Stasioikos, then transports its citizens to Paphos.

Soldiers under Menelaus surround the house of Nikokles of Paphos and force his surrender. His wife burns the palace and her children with themselves inside.

Death of Nikokreon of Salamis.

Eunostos of Soloi marries Eirene, daughter of Ptolemy I Soter and Thais.

Demetrios Poliorketes captures Cyprus from Ptolemy I Soter and Menelaus – including Salamis, Kourion, Soloi, Paphos, and Amathos.

Amathos, Soloi, and Salamis become part of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt under Ptolemy I Soter. They are incorporated into the Ptolemaic administrative system, as Cyprus becomes a strategic naval and commercial hub for the Ptolemies.

Ptolemy II Philadelphos founds a new city named Arsinoe, named for his wife Arsinoe II, on the ruins of Marion.

A temple to Astarte is erected in Kition.

Cyprus, including Amathos, Soloi, Salamis, Kition, Paphos, Lapethos, and Kourion, is annexed by Rome after Publius Clodius Pulcher, a Roman tribune, convinces the Roman Senate to declare Cyprus a Roman province.

Cyprus, including Kourion, Amathos, Paphos, Lapethos, Salamis, Soloi, and Kition, goes to Marc Antony and Kleopatra VII.

All of Cyprus, including Kourion, Amathos, Paphos, Lapethos, Salamis, Soloi, and Kition, returns to Roman rule.

Cyprus, including Kourion, Amathos, Paphos, Lapethos, Salamis, Soloi, and Kition, is separated from Cilicia into its own province.

An earthquake causes damage in Kourion.

Kition suffers a strong earthquake.

An earthquake causes severe damage in Kourion and is restored by Vespasian.

Kition, Paphos, and Salamis are destroyed by an earthquake.

Another earthquake further destroys Kition, Paphos, and Salamis.