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Cyprus displays jewelry, early Christian icons and Bronze Age antiquities once looted from island

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus has put on display artifacts — some of them thousands of years old — that were returned after a Turkish art dealer looted them from the ethnically divided island nation decades ago. The art dealer took the artifacts from the country’s breakaway north in the years after Cyprus’ split in 1974, when Turkey invaded following a coup mounted by supporters of union with Greece. The antiquities were kept in Germany after German authorities seized them in 1997, and protracted legal battles secured their repatriation in three batches, the last one this year.

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