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Greek Cypriots

Greek Cypriots
Ethnic group
GroupGreek Cypriots
Ελληνοκύπριοι
Ellinokyprioi
Populationc. 1,200,000
Cyprus650000
United Kingdom270,000
Greece200,000  
US50,000  
Australia20,000  
Canada10,000  

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Greek Cypriots ( , Ellinokýprioi; ) are the ethnic Greek population of Cyprus, forming the island's largest ethnolinguistic community at 77% of the population. Greek Cypriots are mostly members of the Church of Cyprus, an autocephalous Greek Orthodox Church within the wider communion of Orthodox Christianity. In regards to the 1960 Constitution of Cyprus, the term also includes Arabic-speaking Maronites, Armenians and Latin Rite Catholics ("Latins"), who were given the option of being included in one or other of the two constituent communities (Greek or Turkish) and voted to join the Greek Cypriot community.


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