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According to the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, the Hospitallers built Kolossi in 1210 as the seat of their commandery, in 1306 it passed briefly to the Templars, and in the Mamluk raids of 1425-1426 it was destroyed. What this tells about the military orders on the island.
According to the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, the Franks built the Paphos castle in the mid-13th century to replace Saranta Kolones, ruined in the 1222 earthquake; shortly before the Ottoman conquest, given as 1570, the Venetians blew up the remains of its two towers.
According to a lost inscription, the chapel at Pyrga was built and decorated in 1421/22, and at the foot of its Crucifixion kneel two crowned figures identified as King Janus and his wife Charlotte de Bourbon. What each of these details rests on.
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