LGBT rights in Cyprus not recognised or mentioned in the law. With independence from Britain in 1960, Cyprus retained British colonial law on the island almost in its entirety, with the relevant parts of the "Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885" becoming articles 171 to 174 of Chapter 154 of the Cypriot Criminal Code. The articles were first challenged in 1993, when Alexandros Modinos, a Cypriot architect and gay rights activist won a legal court case against the Government of Cyprus, known as "Modinos v. Cyprus", at the European Court of Human Rights. The Court ruled that Section 171 of the Criminal Code of Cyprus
Mediterranean race Mediterranean race The Mediterranean race (also Mediterranid race) is one of the sub-races into which the Caucasian race was categorised by most anthropologists in the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. According to various definitions, it was said to be prevalent in Southern Europe, parts of Western Asia, western Central Asia and parts of South Asia, in North Africa, and the Horn of Africa. To a lesser extent, certain populations of people in parts of Great Britain, Ireland, and Germany, despite living far from the Mediterranean, were deemed as potentially having some Mediterranean elements in their population, such as Bavaria, Wales