General History

The Australia Café and Jim Boutieris A Touch of Greece in Otho Street The attrition of time has also taken its toll and little remains to mark many café sites of the past in Inverell. Jindabyne House (Williams & Son 1902...

I am not certain but Athanasios Kominos, from the village of Perleyianika near Potamos, landed in Sydney in 1873, probably as a seaman from New Zealand, when he was 29. He was the son of a farmer, Dimitrios Kominos and h...

Paper delivered by JOHN COMINO Dip Law (SAB), Notary Public to the 1ST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF KYTHERAISMOS Kythera, Greece September 24-26, 2004 “Η πατριδα ενος ανθρωπου ειναι εκει που ευδοκιμει και πλουτιςει" .........

First section of Chapter XI Australians and Greeks 1 The Early Years Halstead Press Sydney 1992 pp.190-222 [Part B - Continuation of previous entry] From Kythira, too, came several unrelated Kasimatis families. Antonios...

First section of Chapter XI Australians and Greeks 1 The Early Years Halstead Press Sydney 1992 pp.190-222 If there is a single word which summarises the lives of most Greeks in Australia early in the 20th century it is...

From, Hugh Gilchrist's Australians and Greeks. Volume II. The Middle Years Chapter XIV Guides for the Greeks pages 253-257. Between 1915 and 1939 three Greek books were published in Australia. All had a similar purpose:...

From, Hugh Gilchrist's Australians and Greeks. Volume II. The Middle Years Chapter XIV Guides for the Greeks pages 253-257. Between 1915 and 1939 three Greek books were published in Australia. All had a similar purpose:...

The Glory Box of Yesterday Many traditions have been erased by the redefinition of female roles in modern society. Changes in these roles were slow in reaching Kythera, and even though village women were often the back-b...

At Kithira, before the institution of the philharmonic orchestra there was not an organised musical group like the rest of Eptanisa. Small, poor, and isolated from the rest of Eptanisa, Kithira did not accept the western...

The Richmond District Alstonville Emmanuel Harry Mavris (Mavromikhail) acquired a cafe here in mid 1922, but who came before or after is still on the investigation list. He was 10yrs old when he left home in Piraeus, spe...

The following overview of Kytherian settlement is plagiarized from the research of Charles Price, Hugh Gilchrist, Effie Alexakis, Leonard Janiszewski, Denis Conomos and Peter Vanges The first Kytherians to raise the flag...