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The international law system comprises a number of entities that do not conform to the definition of State. These include de facto regimes—or unrecognized States. The emergence of de facto regimes poses significant challenges for the protection of cultural heritage. This is due to the fact that the formation of an unrecognized State following secessionist warfare could lead to the alteration (or dissolution) of the legal and administrative regimes established by pre-existing authorities for the protection and management of sites and art treasures. This chapter looks at heritage preservation and destruction in Cyprus from an international law point of view. In particular, it uses Cyprus as a case study to examine the problems that its historical patrimony is facing as a result of the establishment of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in 1983, a de facto regime that today is recognized only by its kin-State, Turkey.
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Chechi, A. (2017). Endangered Cultural Heritage in Unrecognized States. In: Walsh, M. (eds) The Armenian Church of Famagusta and the Complexity of Cypriot Heritage. Mediterranean Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48502-7_8
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