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submitted by BBC, Great Britain on 05.01.2014
BBC Travel 4 January 2014 IN Greece History by Katherine LaGrave In 2004, Albert Blok closed his eyes and randomly pointed to a spot on a map, determined to spend his next holiday wherever his finger landed. He’d never heard of Cythera, a tiny Greek island northwest of Crete, but after visiting, he was smitten. “It keeps revealing new secrets to us,” said Blok, who ended up emigrating to Cythera from the Netherlands ...
submitted by George N Leontsinis on 20.01.2013
Delivered at the 11th Biennial Conference of the Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand . It is with great pleasure that I participate in the 11th Biennial Conference of the Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand. I would like to express my thanks to the Conference organizing committee, and especially Professor Vrasidas Karalis, for inviting ...
submitted by Vasilia Uhrweiss (nee Margetis) on 20.06.2012
Diana Rudkin, (nee) Lianos in c. 1950. Photograph, below. The Lianos sisters. Standing: Stella and Coralia. Seated: Theodora, Diana, and Aspacia. [[picture:"1006B.jpg" ID:20482]] Diana (christened Diamantoula), was born in Sydney on the 4th August 1920,the youngest of five sisters and second youngest of the eleven children of George and Agapi Lianos from Kythera. As ...
submitted by Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia on 10.12.2010
Professor Manuel Aroney has his own WIKI entry, largely it would seem on the back of the entries in www.kythera-family.net Accessed Dec, 2010 Manuel James Aroney AM, OBE , is an Australian academic and human rights advocate. Aroney is the only child of Dimitrios and Stamatina Aronis (Aroney) who both were born in Aroniadika, Kythera, Greece. They met up again in Sydney, married in 1926 in Townsville and then opened the Central Cafe in Mackay, ...
submitted by Vikki Londy on 29.12.2006
Introduction In the first half of the 20th century, the largest group within the Greek community in Queensland were the Kytherians. They played a vital role in the formation and leadership of Greek communities in Brisbane and provincial centres throughout the state, the securing of a priest for Brisbane and the erection of the first Greek church in Brisbane. From 1919 until his death in 1957, the Greek Consul in Brisbane was the Kytherian, Christy Freeleagus. Most of the enterprising ...
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Interviewed during his visit to Australia, 2013.
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Brisbane kytherians at paliochora excursion ..exploring the wonderful site and seeing all the churches .. this one is called ' e...
Gorgeous Ruby! Ruby's father was Evangelo Megaloconomos born 7 September 1891, died 29 January 1983 Ruby was born 16 September...
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