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Toponymic ensemble of the St. Nicolas Roundabout
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In the circular square of St. Nicholas, the streets that bear the names of important characters in the modern history of the Republic of Cyprus — Fereos, Byron, Grivas and Makarios III — meet.
Rigas Fereos was a writer, one of the first representatives of the Greek Enlightenment in the 18th century and a revolutionary and independence fighter executed by the Turks. Across the circle, we find a modest street named after Lord Byron, in memory of the great British poet who died in 1824 at the age of 36 in the war to liberate Greece from the Ottoman Empire.
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Archbishop Makarios III was the first president of Cyprus, his activity is associated with the fight for liberation of the country from British rule in the 1950s and the division of the island. Nearby, a street celebrates General Georgios Grivas, known under the nickname of Digenis. He began as a comrade-in-arms of Makarios in the struggle against the British and later became his open opponent. The General died suddenly in a safe house on this very street, shortly before the coup against Makarios in 1974. How to unravel the tangle?
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