"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity."
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Pro Publio Sestio
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(An extract from the memoirs of Prof. Manuel J. Aroney) My father Dimitrios Aronis and colleague doing military service in the Gendarmerie in Greece. Photograph taken circa 1906 prior to Dimitrios leaving for Australia....
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(An extract from the memoirs of Prof. Manuel J. Aroney) The city of Boston, located not far from the large metropolis of New York in the north-eastern part of the United States, was a magnet for immigrants because of man...
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(An extract from the memoirs of Prof. Manuel J. Aroney) My maternal grandparents Theodore and Eleni Aronis Another well-known family in Aroniadika was that of Theodore and Eleni Aronis (Papadominakos). Theodore was a rel...
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(An extract from the memoirs of Prof. Manuel J. Aroney) From 1923 to 1926 Dimitrios Aronis, now widely known as Jim Aroney, was a cook in the Townsville Cafe located in Flinders Street West. He became naturalized as an A...
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Andy & Evangelia (An extract from the memoirs of Prof. Manuel J. Aroney) Evangelia Aroney (nee Lukas): The beautiful girl in the photo that uncle Andy fell in love with. Andy bought a house in Macalister Street barely t...
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(An extract from the memoirs of Prof. Manuel J. Aroney) The strong conviction existed within the Greek community that our presence in Australia was greatly resented by many Anglo-Celtic Australians. A legacy of bitternes...
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On the 12th of May we celebrate St. Theodore. Once upon a time on the eve of the day there used to be a huge celebration, and people would come from all over the island to join in. In the evening sales men would arrive a...
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The church of St. Kosmas near Drimona was once very small, and so the Priest Metaksas decided he wanted to restore it and make it bigger. He therefore left the island to petition for the money. At that time the sea was s...
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It was at the time when the Turks were on the island. Amir was one of them, a warrior of their army. One night he went down to the spring, but for some reason his horse slipped and fell, bringing him down with it. The re...
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It happened about a hundred and fifty years ago. They said the man was on drugs, and everyone agrees he wasn’t from the island. So the story goes he set off from Aroniadika to go to Kalokairines, where a christening was...
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The origin of the name Kominos goes back thousands of years, as far back as Mesopotamia. The name was then Komninos, it was changed to Kominos much later. The Komninos family were merchants in the time of the Byzantium,...
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Late on a Wednesday evening I sat down with Mrs Pavlaki in the kitchen in her daughter’s apartment in Potamos. The electricity had been wiped out in the area, so we sat in candlelight, talking and remembering. Mrs Pavlak...
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I can only give some account of the immigration of the sons of Demetrios Gavriles of Logothetianica, coming to America, from what I recollect, having been told. Some of it may be myth, and some of it may just not be corr...
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- A Short Story about My Mother. This article was written for The Kytherian under The Kytherian Cinema Supplement The Picture Show Men – August 2001 and was then adapted for The Greek Australian VEMA in March 2003. Anna...
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Twenty four year old Vrettos Dimitri Panaretto sailed into Sydney in 1892 and within a couple of years had acquired his own oyster saloon at 197 Oxford Street. Sometime in the late 1890s he and his younger brother, Ioann...
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Below is an abridged version of the entrepreneurial activities of the Kytherian Archie Caponas extracted from the book ‘Greeks and Other Aliens around the Tweed and Brunswick’, which is the first volume of the opus on Gr...
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Nicholas (Nick) Comino, together with his sister, Melpomeni, arrived in Australia on the SS Cephee on 29 February, 1924. Nick had been born on the island of Kythera, a small island off the tip of the Peloponnesian penins...
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This is an exerpt from Peter Haniotis book "Expectations and Achievements” which is available for $40 from Peter or Vicky Haniotis 40 Eastern Avenue 2032 Kingsford Australia Tel. +61.2.9662 49 09 Many thanks to Mr. Hanio...
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This is an exerpt from Peter Haniotis book "Expectations and Achievements” which is available for $40 from Peter or Vicky Haniotis 40 Eastern Avenue, 2032 Kingsford Australia Tel. +61.2.9662 49 09 Many thanks to Mr. Hani...
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My grandmother's side of the family - the Haniotis - have a house on a generous piece of land right in the middle of Mitata. I always thought that they had accumulated their wealth through their merchant business exporti...
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