Salamis, Cyprus Salamis, Cyprus Salamis (, ) is an ancient Greek city-state on the east coast of Cyprus, at the mouth of the river Pedieos, 6 km north of modern Famagusta. According to tradition, the founder of Salamis was Teucer, son of Telamon, who could not return home after the Trojan war because he had failed to avenge his brother Ajax. The earliest archaeological finds go back to the eleventh century BC (Late Bronze Age III). The copper ores of Cyprus made the island an essential node in the earliest trade networks, and Cyprus was a source of the orientalizing cultural traits
Tous son of Nowzar Tous son of Nowzar Tous son of Nowzar () is a mythological Iranian prince and hero from the "Pishdadian-Dynasty", whose deeds and adventures were told in Ferdowsi's "Shahnameh". Tous was a wise and brave man but also proud and pugnacious. And because of these characteristics he did not possess the king's divine glory (Middle Persian: "khvarrah"; Persian: "farr") and was not elected by the other nobles of Iran as heir to his father King Nowzar. Instead, his cousin Zav became the new king of Iran and founder of the famous Kayanian dynasty. Nevertheless, Tous was a loyal vassal to the