Famagust's influx of Christian refugees fleeing the…

Famagust's influx of Christian refugees fleeing the downfall of Acre in 1291 has over the past eight decades transformed the deep-water port on the east coast of Cyprus from a tiny village into one of the richest cities in Christendom.

Here, the Lusignan kings of Cyprus are crowned as titular kings of Jerusalem in the city’s Gothic-style Cathedral of St. Nicholas (today a mosque).

Genoa seizes the port in 1372: it will hold it for more than a century.