Batutuwan muhalli a Cyprus

Cyprus tsibiri ne a Gabashin Gabashin Bahar Rum . Ita ce tsibirin na uku mafi girma a cikin Bahar Rum, bayan tsibirin Italiya na Sicily da Sardinia, kuma Tsibirin na 80 mafi girma a duniya ta yanki. Tana kudu da Yankin Anatolia, duk da haka tana cikin Cyprus Arc .  A fannin ƙasa, Cyprus tana cikin Yammacin Asiya, amma ana ɗaukar ƙasar a matsayin ƙasar Turai a fannin Yanayin siyasa. Cyprus kuma tana da dogon lokaci na Girkanci da kuma Anatolian, Levantine, Byzantine, Ottoman, da tasirin Yammacin Turai.

Tsibirin ya mamaye tsaunuka biyu, tsaunukan Troodos da tsaunukan Kyrenia ko Pentadaktylos, da kuma tsakiya na tsakiya, Mesaoria, tsakanin su. Duwatsun Troodos sun rufe mafi yawan kudancin da yammacin tsibirin kuma suna da kusan rabin yankin. Ƙananan Kyrenia Range ya shimfiɗa tare da iyakar arewa. Ba ta da tsawo kamar tsaunukan Troodos, kuma tana da ƙasa da yanki. Duwatsun biyu suna gudana a layi daya da Dutsen Taurus a kan ƙasar Turkiyya, wanda ke bayyane daga arewacin Cyprus. Yankunan bakin teku, daban-daban a fadin, sun kewaye tsibirin.

A fannin siyasa, tsibirin ya kasu kashi huɗu. Jamhuriyar Cyprus, gwamnati ce kawai da aka amince da ita a duniya, ta mamaye kudancin kashi 60% na tsibirin, kuma ta kasance memba na Tarayyar Turai tun daga 1 ga Mayu 2. Jamhuriyar Turkiyya ta Arewacin Cyprus, Turkiyya ce kawai ta amince da ita ta hanyar diflomasiyya; tana mulkin arewacin kashi ɗaya bisa uku na tsibirin, kusan kashi 36% na yankin. Green Line mai kula da Majalisar Dinkin Duniya yanki ne mai hanawa wanda ke raba biyun kuma kusan 4%. A ƙarshe, yankuna biyu - Akrotiri da Dhekelia - sun kasance a ƙarƙashin ikon mallakar Burtaniya don dalilai na soja, tare da kafa Yankunan Masarauta na Akrotiri Da Dhekelia (SBA). SBAs suna kan iyakar kudancin tsibirin kuma tare sun kunshi 254 km2, ko 2.8% na tsibirin. 

 Yankin 
Dutsen Troodos mai tsawo, wanda babban kewayon ya kai daga Pomos Point a arewa maso yamma kusan zuwa Larnaca Bay a gabas, shine mafi kyawun fasalin wuri mai faɗi. Hawan da ninkawa mai zurfi a cikin lokacin da aka tsara ya bar yankin ya ragargaje sosai, don haka ƙananan kewayon da spurs sun karkata a kusurwoyi da yawa, gangaren su sun shiga cikin kwari masu tsayi. A kudu maso yamma, duwatsun suna sauka a cikin jerin tuddai masu tsayi zuwa filin bakin teku.

Duk da yake tsaunukan Troodos tsaunuka ne da aka kafa da dutse mai narkewa, Kyrenia Range wani karamin dutse ne wanda ya tashi ba zato ba tsammani daga filayen. Yankin gabas ya zama jerin tuddai a kan Karpas Peninsula .  Wannan tsibirin yana nunawa ga Asia Minor, wanda Cyprus ke cikin yanayin ƙasa. An kuma san Kyrenia Range da Dutsen Pentadactylon, saboda taron da ya yi kama da yatsunsu biyar.

Even the highest peaks of the Kyrenia Range are hardly more than half the height of the great dome of the Troodos massif, Mount Olympus (), but their seemingly inaccessible, jagged slopes make them considerably more spectacular. British writer Lawrence Durrell, in Bitter Lemons, wrote of the Troodos as "an unlovely jumble of crags and heavyweight rocks" and of the Kyrenia Range as belonging to "the world of Gothic Europe, its lofty crags studded with crusader castles."

An gano wadatattun ajiyar jan ƙarfe a zamanin d ̄ a kan gangaren Troodos .  Babban ajiyar sulphide ya samo asali ne a matsayin wani ɓangare na hadaddun ophiolite a Cibiyar yadawa a ƙarƙashin Bahar Rum wanda aka ɗaga shi a lokacin Pleistocene kuma an sanya shi a wurin da yake yanzu.

 Rashin ruwa 
A yawancin tsibirin, samun damar samun ruwa a duk shekara yana da wahala. Wannan an danganta shi da al'ada ga sare daji wanda ya lalata tsarin ruwa na tsibirin ta hanyar rushewa,  amma Grove da Rackham sun yi tambaya game da wannan ra'ayi. A.T. Grove, Oliver Rackham, The Nature of Mediterranean Europe: An Ecological History, Yale, 2001.  . Cibiyar sadarwa ta koguna na hunturu ta tashi a cikin tsaunukan Troodos kuma tana gudana daga gare su a kowane bangare. Kogin Yialias da Kogin Pedhieos suna gudana zuwa gabas a fadin Mesaoria zuwa Famagusta Bay; Kogin Serraghis yana gudana daga arewa maso yamma ta hanyar filin Morphou .  Dukkanin kogunan tsibirin, duk da haka, sun bushe a lokacin rani. An gina babban tsarin madatsun ruwa da hanyoyin ruwa don kawo ruwa zuwa wuraren noma. 

Tsakiyar Mesaoria ita ce tsakiyar aikin gona na tsibirin, amma amfanin gona ga alkama da sha'ir ya dogara sosai da ruwan sama na hunturu; wasu amfanin gona suna girma a ƙarƙashin ban ruwa. Wannan fili mai faɗi, na tsakiya, wanda ke buɗewa zuwa teku a kowane ƙarshen, an taɓa rufe shi da gandun daji masu arziki. Koyaya, masu cin nasara na dā suna buƙatar katako don jiragen ruwa, don haka ƙananan shaidar gandun daji sun kasance. Babban birnin tsibirin da aka raba yanzu, Nicosia, yana tsakiyar wannan fili na tsakiya.

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