Kingdom of Cyprus to take Cyprus back. King Richard took them up on the offer and the Templars returned to Syria, retaining but a few holdings on the island. A small minority Roman Catholic population of the island was mainly confined to some coastal cities, such as Famagusta, as well as inland Nicosia, the traditional capital. Roman Catholics kept the reins of power and control, while the Orthodox inhabitants lived in the countryside; this was much the same as the arrangement in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. The independent Eastern Orthodox Church of Cyprus, with its own archbishop and subject to no patriarch, was
Capital City Courier Harris re-centered the paper in its community roots, the content of the paper was not regulated to social gossip, and news was always the papers' main focus. The "Courier" would run until April 4, 1903, when the last issue of the newspaper was published. During its eighteen years of publication the "Capital City Courier" went through multiple name changes:. This site allows users the ability to read all of the issues of the "Capital City Courier" as they were published, in PDF format, and view the associated images. Capital City Courier The Capital City Courier was a newspaper established on