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submitted by John George PRINEAS on 07.06.2005

Cumberland Cafe, Parramatta, NSW

Submitted By John Prineas.
In Memory of my Late Father in Law who died very young and whom I never met, and his brother, Uncle Arthur, who died at the ripe age of 92.)

Cumberland Cafe was operated by Cosma and Arthur Psaltis (Protopsaltis) who had migrated in Australia in the early 1920's
Situated in Church Street, between Murray Bros and the Post Office, at the time, Cumberland Cafe was 'The Place' to dine in the Parramatta area, and indeed among the best in Sydney. ...

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submitted by Odyssey Magazine on 06.04.2005

Love in a Warm Climate: How Five Young Greek-Australian Women Found Love and Culture Shock on Kythira



Odyssey Magazine, Vol. 7 No. 6 (July/August2000)

Kythira has been dubbed "Kangaroo island" because of the large number of Greek-Australian women who have made their lives there. Anna Patty meets some of them and asks whether they really have found paradise.

It's a world where a woman's place is in the home-or out in the fields. A world where serving one's husband and being a good housewife ...

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submitted by Odyssey Magazine on 06.04.2005

Aphrodite's Children on Kythira.

By George Zarkadakis



Oddysey Magazine Vol 2 No 5 May/Jun 1995.


Kythira has been occupied over the centuries by an inordinate number of conquerors, each of which left their mark on the island. Zarkadakis explores the beauty of a relatively unknown Greek island; in doing so he meets a series of Greek Australians who have returned from Down Under to spend their lives in the land ...

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submitted by George Sophios on 07.03.2005

Ionian Parliament Building. Corfu.



Corfu (Kerkyra)was the adminstrative centre for the Ionian State, and hence for Kythera from 1800 until 1864.
From 1855 this building housed the Ionian Parliament.

Those who have referenced the numerous entries on Diamantina Roma (see in particular, entry in High Achievers), will know that "...on 28.04.1856 Contessa Diamantina Roma married George Bowen in the chapel of the Palace of St Michael and St ...

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submitted by Peter Makarthis on 06.03.2005

Sofia Fatsea & Sydney Union of Greek Women

The Sydney Union of Greek Women raised funds for the relief of victims in Greece during the Balkans War 1912-13 in response to an appeal for assistance from the Panhellenic Women’s Association in Athens.

Sydney Union of Greek Women
Members c1913

Mesdames
Anna and Kalliopi Kominou
Angeliki, Ariadni and Styliani Stamelatou
Antigoni Andronikou
Eleni and Eftykhia Phoca
Smaragda Tzortzatou
Vasiliki Tavlaridou
Maria ...

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submitted by George Poulos on 28.08.2005

Dimitri George and Athena (Tzortzo) Poulos', Hlihlis 4 children. George, Con, Harry & Ollie.



George Dimitri (Tzortzo) Poulos and Con Dimitri (Tzortzo) Poulos as young men in the 1950's.

From an interview with Con Dimitri (Tzortzo) Poulos.

"My father ran the Goulburn Cafe". (Now, (2005) a Chinese Restaurant (the Red Sun).

He married my mother on 16th June 1926.

Dimitri bought Panayoti (Peter) (Tzortzo) Poulos, and "Tass" who married Katina ...

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submitted by Victor Panaretos on 13.02.2005

Venetian Census, Tax and Notarial Records



Map of the 1721 Venetian population by parish, based on census data published under C. Maltezou's general editorship.

Principal Investigators:
John Bennet (Oxford)
Siriol Davies (Stirling)


Venetian influence in Kythera lasted from the early 13th to the end of the 18th century. During that period the island was administered in turn from Crete, the Peloponnese and Corfu, reflecting ...

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submitted by Victor Panaretos on 13.02.2005

British schools on Kythera.



The British or Lancastrian School at Milapidea, Livadi. Photography by J. Bennet 2002.

Principal Investigator:
Deborah Harlan (Oxford)

In 1797, Napoleon's conquest of the Venetian Republic ushered in a turbulent period in the island's history, resulting by the end of the first decade of the 19th century in the establishment of a British Occupation (1808-1813) and then Protectorate (1813-1863) of ...

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submitted by Peter Vanges on 20.01.2005

Myrtidiotissa. The Monastery. A History.



From, Chapter 40,
pp. 193-199.

Peter Vanges
Kythera. A History.
Publisher: Kytherian Association of Australia.
1993.


Kythera is full of churches. There is a church in every village, every town, on hill tops, in valleys or caves near the sea, or hidden in the centre of the island. These are simple, beautiful or majestic depending on where they are located. But none ...

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submitted by Peter Vanges on 19.01.2005

Kytherian dress. A brief History, with focus on the spaleta.



Kytherian dress

[Being], Chapter 43

Peter Vanges.
Kythera. A History.
1993.
Publisher: Kytherian Association of Australia.
Sydney.

Any attempt to trace and define a purely Kytherian dress would be very difficult, especially when one considers that over the years the island was under the influence of so many outside forces. Furthermore, ...

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submitted by Hugh Gilchrist on 28.08.2005

The Shop-keeping phenomenon. New South Wales. 19th century to WWI. Part B.

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 Kasimatis was a lad of 13, the eldest of seven children from the village of Drymona, when he reached Sydney in 1905. After working in Greek shops he was joined in ...

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submitted by Hugh Gilchrist on 17.01.2005

The Shop-keeping phenomenon. New South Wales. 19th century to WWI. Part A.

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 shop-keeping.
How many Greeks owned shops or restaurants at any time, as distinct from those who rented or managed them—let alone those who served as waiters, shop assistants, fish-cleaners ...

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submitted by Peter Bouras on 13.01.2005

The oral society - insights from Gillian Bouras's Aphrodite and the Others.

Rural Greek societies - hence societies such as Kythera - are characterized in Bouras's work as
0ral - rather than literate
lived - rather than theorised about, and
pragmattic - rather than theoretical.

Here Bouras defines the difference between her pethera, a rural Greek woman, and herself, an urban Australian, "theoretician".
In the process she uncovers some of the socio-psychology of numerous Kytherian women; with whom, we, of the second generation ...

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submitted by Tess Mallos on 12.01.2005

Greek cuisine. History of the influence on Australian cooking. Kythera and Kytherians, prominent.

From,

The 200 years History of Australian Cooking
Polly Book Publishing Company Pty Ltd
Balmain.
1988
ISBN 0 947110 01 1


Grecian Gifts

Greece and Cyprus


As with other cuisines, those of Greece and Cyprus have given their particular gifts to the Australian kitchen by various means. However the early Grecian gifts bestowed on the people of their new land had little to do with Greek ...

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submitted by Bill Psaltis on 14.02.2005

Kosma Psaltis Family History

Kythera GREECE to Sydney AUSTRALIA

A CENTURY OF CHANGE


As we enter the 21st century it is taken for granted that somebody, usually our parents will shelter protect and guide us through our early life.

Today, basic needs, food ,clothing, health, education, even entertainment and sport are provided as part of a normal life style.

It was not always thus, 100 years ago there was ...

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submitted by Jim Tzannes on 09.01.2005

Western Australia. The Greek presence in Western Australia: an outline history.

Multicultural Communities Online. Official Publication of the Online WA Multicultural Communities Gateway.

Volume 3, Issue 4 October 2002 Page 9

At:

http://www.multicultural.online.wa.gov.au/wppuser/owamc/sept02news/page9.html

The Greek presence in Western
Australia: an outline history

By: Dr John N. Yiannakis.

Until recently it was accepted that the first Greek to arrive in W.A. was a Castellorizian ...

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submitted by Hugh Gilchrist on 08.01.2005

The International Directory. — O Diethnis Emporikos Odigos — A history of the publication of the book.

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: to guide Australia’s Greeks and promote their welfare. What they also did was to raise comparisons between aspects of the Greek and the Australian way of life, as then lived. The third of these was.....

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submitted by Hugh Gilchrist on 08.01.2005

Odigos tou Ellinos en Afstralia. — The Australian Greek’s Guide — A history of the publication of the book.

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: to guide Australia’s Greeks and promote their welfare. What they also did was to raise comparisons between aspects of the Greek and the Australian way of life, as then lived. The second of these was.....

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submitted by Peter Vanges on 08.01.2005

Committees of the Kytherian Association (formerly, Brotherhood) of Australia, Sydney. 1922-2005.

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 community within a formal association which had as its objectives, fellowship, social and cultural activities and also in helping the underprivileged, by contributing to various charities both ...

History > General History

submitted by Peter Vanges on 08.01.2005

History of the Kytherian Association (formerly, Brotherhood) of Australia. 1922-1993.

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 association which had as its objectives, fellowship, social and cultural activities and also in helping the underprivileged, by contributing to various charities both in Australia and in Greece. It was on ...