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| | CYPRUSIVE - North Cyprus Web Guide - Hellenistic Period (325 - 58 BC) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | However, in 306 BC, Demetrius, the son of Antigonus, landed at Carpasia and eventually mastered the island, holding it until 295 BC, when it was retaken by Ptolemy. |
 | | The latter period of Ptolemaic rule degenerated into a series ot internecine squabbles, and the insolent behaviour of the last Ptolemy towards a Roman senator, who was later elected tribune, gave Rome an excuse to annex the island. |
 | | Marcus Portius Cato arrived in 58 BC to implement the annexation, and Cyprus became a province of the Roman Empire. |
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