Category: GREEK DIASPORA
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Yearning for Aegean light
YEARNING FOR AEGEAN LIGHT. The Swiss Committee for the Return of Parthenon Marbles presents this new documentary film, produced by the Committee and directed by Gary Grenier. Many people are either misinformed or undecided about the need to reunify the Parthenon, a mutilated work of art and the major symbol of Europe’s common cultural heritage.…
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Greek-Canadian Senator Housakos Wants Canadian Government to Recognize Pontian Greek Genocide
During a recent speech in the Canadian Senate, Greek-Canadian Senator Leo Housakos addressed his colleagues in efforts to bring to vote the need for Canada to recognize the Genocide of the Pontic Greeks from 1916 to 1923 by Turkey. Most people are not aware of the group of ethnic Greeks called Pontic Greeks. They are ethnic Greeks…
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Hellene, Romios, Greek: Collective Identifications and Identities
“Έλλην”, “Ρωμηός”, “Γραικός” (Hellene, Romios, Graikos [Greek]): Three terms which by and large refer to the identity of the Greeks in the long course of History. The Greek people have been identified by many ethnonyms, with the most common being “Hellene” (Greek: Έλλην), while the name “Greeks” (Latin: Graeci) was used by the Romans, which gradually entered European languages through…
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Migration Routes: First Greek Australian Archive Underway
How has the large Greek community in Australia been formed? How did the Greeks travel to Australia in the 1950s and 1960s? What were conditions like on ships like The Patris, The Flaminia and the others? What do Greeks remember of that experience? What happened when the boats arrived in Circular Quay? The generation of…