Cyprus

A city with a futuristic and modern aesthetic founded by Hyp3rion_ and FlowerPower in June 2020 officially, but with the first builds started by Hyp as early as November 2019 in the Old Spawn region
Cyprus has had many contributors since its founding but the primary ones of note are Hyp, FlowerPower, Jack, Toasty, Marbz, Zythose, lordpipe, Spenduh, Fuad_R, EcksD, eitanzaki, and many others. It has become very developed with distinct areas and purposes. Cyprus sprawls quite a lot now, and the builds are dispersed over many thousands of blocks.

Hyp's thought process on the selection of the region for the location of his settlement
I initially started Cyprus around 40km from the Old Spawn region because I wanted a very specific biome combination: a large overlap of jungle biome and coral reef. Also, having been very much a factions player at one point in time years before, and not having had much "trust-based" SMP experience, having a remote base to prevent nearby development and griefing was a desirable feature.

The jungle and coral reef biome combination turned out to be quite rare and is part of the reason Cyprus is so far from Old Spawn. When I first settled the area, there were already builds in the northern part of the jungle, one by chipklip if I recall correctly. It was a small