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Greek Cypriots
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Greek Cypriots
Greek Cypriots
(; ) are the ethnic
Greek
population of
Cyprus
, forming the island's largest
ethnolinguistic
community at 78 % of the population. Greek Cypriots are mostly members of the
Church of Cyprus
, an
autocephalous
Greek Orthodox Church
within the wider communion of
Orthodox
Christianity
. In regard to the 1960
Constitution of Cyprus
, the term also includes
Arabic
-speaking
Maronites
,
Armenians
and
Latin Rite
Catholics
("Latins"), who were given the option of being included in one or other of the two constituent communities (Greek or
Turkish
) and voted to join the Greek Cypriot community.
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