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{{Short description|Predominantly Greek states listed by the Assyrian king Esarhaddon}}
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| conventional_long_name = Ten city-kingdoms of Cyprus
| native_name            = {{lang|el|Δέκα πόλεις-βασίλεια της Κύπρου}} ([[Greek language|Greek]])
| image_map              = Image:Chypriotische koninkrijken.PNG
| ethnic_groups          = [[Greeks]], [[Phoenicians]], other [[Timeline of Cypriot history|Cypriot populations]]
| demonym                = 
| today                  = {{flag|Cyprus}}
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{{History of Cyprus}}

The '''ten city-kingdoms of Cyprus''' are listed in a 673–672 BC inscription attributed to [[Esarhaddon]], who ruled the [[Neo-Assyrian Empire]] from 681 BC to 669 BC. These kingdoms were [[Ancient Greece|Greek]], Greco-[[Phoenicia|Phoenician]], and Greco-[[Eteocypriot language|Eteocypriot]] in origin.<ref>Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge 1880, “The history of Esarhaddon (son of Sennacherib) king of Assyria” (The Names of the Twenty-two Kings, p. 104-108)</ref> 

== List ==

=== Greek ===
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|[[Paphos]], Πάφος
|[[Salamis, Cyprus|Salamis]], Σαλαμίς
|[[Soli, Cyprus|Soloi]], Σόλοι
|[[Kourion]], Κούριον
|[[Chytri|Chytroi]], Χῦτροι
|[[Idalium|Idalion]], Ἰδάλιον
|[[Ledra]]i, Λῆδραι
| [[Tamassos]], Ταμασσός
| [[Kyrenia]], Κυρηνεία
| [[Marion, Cyprus|Marion]], Μάριον
| [[Lapithos|Lapethos]], Λάπηθος (Greek, but Greco-Phoenician for a short while)}}

=== Greco-Phoenician ===
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|[[Citium|Kition]], Κίτιον}}

=== Greco-Eteocypriot ===
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|[[Amathus]], Ἀμαθούς}}

== See also ==

* [[Timeline of Cypriot history]]

==References==
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[[Category:Cities in ancient Cyprus]]
[[Category:Kingdoms in Greek Antiquity]]

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