Peter II of Cyprus than trustworthy in this regard. Peter and Eleanor the Dowager Queen were held captive by the Genoese, who also attacked Limassol and Paphos, and entered the kingdom's capital, Nicosia. Peter's uncles John and James resisted successfully against the Genoese from the St. Hilarion Castle and from the town of Kyrenia. The following year (1374), Peter was forced to come to a humiliating agreement with the Genoese declaring that Kyrenia and what remained of Famagusta under would fall under Genoese sovereignty, that he would pay huge compensations to the Genoese, and that James would leave Cyprus. James obeyed and departed from
Capital city capital, Rangoon, was claimed to be too overcrowded. A few nation states have multiple capitals, and there are also several states that have no capital. Some have a city as the capital but with most government agencies elsewhere. There is also a ghost town which is currently the "de jure" capital of a territory: Plymouth in Montserrat. There are several countries where, for various reasons, the official capital and de facto seat of government are separated: Some historical examples of similar arrangements, where the recognized capital was not the official seat of government: With the rise of modern empires and