Sweet Salt: Sugar Production in Medieval Cyprus

Here is Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus, painted by Gentile Bellini.  She was from Lusignan sugar-dynasty and the page I have just completed tells the story of medieval sugar production on the island. Go here to start.

Portrait of Catherine Cornaro (Queen of Cyprus (1474-1489) by Gentile Bellini, at the Magyar Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest(c) Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
Portrait of Catherine Cornaro (Queen of Cyprus (1474-1489) by Gentile Bellini, at the Magyar Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest(c) Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

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