Cyprus in 218 B.C.

Cyprus — Ptolemaic Egypt › The Overseas Empire.

The great copper-and-timber island, the firmest and most valuable of the overseas possessions. Governed by a strategos who is effectively a Ptolemaic viceroy, with the war-harbour and shipsheds of Kition and the cities of Salamis and Paphos, Cyprus is the eastern bastion of the fleet and a mint of the realm — a second pillar of Ptolemaic sea-power after Egypt itself.