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THE LATINS OF CYPRUS 12 Riccardo Mattei, together with a Greek Orthodox and two Muslims. During the first decades of the British Era, the Latin community of Cyprus grew in number with the addition of Roman Catholics from Malta, Spain and Britain, a few Armenian-Catholic refugees from Cilicia, as well as some Maronites, who became integrated into the Latin community as they moved from their villages to the towns. l King James II de Lusignan (1463-1473). Visible to the right below is the Lusignan dynasty crest. l Old photograph of the chapel of Saint Joseph’s Convent in Larnaka. l The Béraud family gathered on its mansion’s veranda in Larnaka (1890).