An unintentional colonial gift: Herbert Horatio Kitchener and the antiquity of the toponymic history of Cyprus
The National Archives Kew, Richmond, SurreyIn 1878, a young lieutenant of the Royal Engineers, H.H. Kitchener, arrived in Cyprus. He had been sent to the newly acquired British possession in order to do a quick and rough survey for revenue needs; or at least this is what Sir Garnet Wolseley, the first High Commissioner, had in mind. Instead, working against…