The political union of Cyprus and Greece, as an aim or ideal of certain Greeks and Cypriots.Cyprus's Greek community has long desired enosis, political union of Cyprus with Greece, for a long time....
Turkish troops seized the northern part of Cyprus in 1974 in response to an Athens-engineered military coup aimed at enosis.
Nearly 80 percent of the population, who were ethnically Greek, wanted enosis.
Origin
1920s: from modern Greek henōsis, from hena 'one'.