General History

Central Western Slopes – Warrumbungle District Baradine Antonios Dimitrios Diacopoulos appears to be the Samaritan who brought the loaves and fishes to the Baradinian timber workers. He was 13yrs old when he began his pi...

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, Peter Vanges. Kythera. A History. 1993. Chapter 52 Kytherian Brotherhood of Australia (NSW) Committees, 1922-2005. Seventy years ago, the Kytherian pioneers in Australia saw the need to unite the Kytherian communit...

From, Peter Vanges. Kythera. A History. 1993. Chapter 52 Kytherian Brotherhood of Australia (NSW) Seventy years ago, the Kytherian pioneers in Australia saw the need to unite the Kytherian community within a formal assoc...

North Western NSW – Walgett Plains and Backa Beyond Bourke By common consent Bourke is where the line in the sand defines the start of the outback and where the locals boast that NSW’s highest official temperature of 51....

North Western NSW – Namoi Valley Bellata Andy and Nick Samios appear to be the first Kytherians to have discovered the place when they followed the swaggies’ trail from Narrabri in 1926. Nineteen year old Andy, his two...

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...