General History

The Greek Australian Vema. 9/41 December, 2002 By Ann Coward Until the. 1920s Greek-Australian film exhibitors operated as travelling picture show men, and/or leased local theatres. These the­atres, mostly open-air, were...

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 Psa...

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 wh...

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 beau...

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 Diama...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, especi...

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...

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 defin...

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...

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,...

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/page...

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:...

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...