The first confirmed inhabitands of cyprus were called the arkarokyprioi by the greeks, they however, didnt get the chance to build up a civilisation before the phoinesians arrived and founded colonies on the island along with the egyptians converting most of the inhabitands to their respective religions/cultures.
This all changed whith the arrival of the mycenian greeks who had been looking to conquer all of the known world and had founded colonies of their own all over the mediterenian. The greeks lead a massicre of all phoinesian and egyptian inhabitands of the island and founded numerous city states along the coast.