The Maronite community of Syria, Levant, and Lebanon arrived and settled in the northern part of Cyprus during the period between 9th and 12th Centuries, and went through all the vicissitudes of the Christian community of the island: the 1191–1473 French occupation under the House of Lusignan, rule under the Venetians from 1473 to 1571, and Ottoman feudalism from 1571 to 1878. The largest Maronite migrations were in the years 1224, 1570, 1596, 1776 and 1878.[citation needed]