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When did Cyprus become a British crown colony?

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Cyprus was officially declared a British crown colony in 1925.1

While Britain had assumed administrative control of the island in 1878 under the Cyprus Convention and formally annexed it in 1914 during World War I, the status of a crown colony was not established until two years after the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, in which Turkey recognized the British annexation.1