New Orleans French Doughnuts Beignets are the state doughnut of Louisiana. Pronounced, ben-yay, New Orleans locals often call them French Doughnuts or French Market Doughnuts. Beignets were brought to Louisiana in the 1800's by the French Acadians from Nova Scotia. Although you're free to serve them any way you prefer, the traditional New Orleans beignet is a square piece of dough, about 3 x 3.
The Cyprus Pound, denoted by the symbol CYP, is the official currency used in Cyprus.
The British introduced the pound sterling unit to Cyprus in 1879 at a rate of one to 180 Turkish piastres. It remained equal in value to the pound sterling until 1972 and was initially divided into 20 shillings.n 1955, Cyprus decimalized with 1000 mils to the pound. Colloquially, the 5 mil coin was known as a piastre (not an exact equivalence) and the 50 mil coin as a shilling (an exact equivalence).