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Whereas both the name of the element in English and its universal symbol come from Cyprus , the name came via Germanic and the symbol via Latin.
Among the demands it expected the Republican majority in Congress to make were pledges by Russia not to place S-300 missiles in Cyprus, not to conduct trade with Iran, not to interfere with the blockade of Iraq, to reduce Russian gas supplies to Europe, and to give American companies greater access to Russian markets.
Copper is from ME coper , OE coper/copor , Proto-Germanic * kupar , and is called cuprum in Late Latin; both Proto-Germanic and Late Latin forms are from Latin Cyprium , the adjective for Cyprus , whence the best copper came in antiquity, which goes back to the Greeks, who called it kupros .
Sometimes enshrined in the Chapel of the Holy Shroud (Cappella della Santa Sindone), it was brought to Turin in the 17th century after a journey 200 years earlier from Jerusalem to France via Cyprus.
The network included a major business enterprise in Cyprus; a "services" branch in Zagreb; an office of the Benevolence International Foundation in Sarajevo, which supported the Bosnian Muslims in their conflict with Serbia and Croatia; and an NGO in Baku, Azerbaijan, that was employed as well by Egyptian Islamic Jihad both as a source and conduit for finances and as a support center for the Muslim rebels in Chechnya.