ABSTRACT
This chapter describes historiography of Russian and Armenian refugees and contributes to the growing literature on the long Great War, with a focus on displaced persons and their resettlement in Cyprus. Refugees ranged from British citizens in the Ottoman Empire, to Syrian Arabs, to Armenians fleeing the Genocide, who were less welcomed, such as those from the Musa Dagh resistance in July 1915. In the first months of the war, Syrian refugees began arriving on the island. There were various groups of British refugees from the Ottoman Empire in Cyprus during and after the war. During the war Jewish refugees from Palestine, mostly British subjects, were evacuated to Cyprus, where a school was established and funded by the Anglo-Jewish Association, with 20 students in 1916 and 36 in 1917. Most of the refugees settling in Cyprus were displaced by wars after the Great War ‘ended’, evidence for the ‘long’ Great War argument.
