Category: GREEK DIASPORA
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Yearning for Aegean light
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Greek-Canadian Senator Housakos Wants Canadian Government to Recognize Pontian Greek Genocide
Most people are not aware of the group of ethnic Greeks called Pontic Greeks. They are ethnic Greeks who once lived along the shores of what is now known as the Black Sea. Greek merchants originally settled in the area over 3,000 years ago, establishing trading posts along this shoreline and eventually the outposts grew…
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Hellene, Romios, Greek: Collective Identifications and Identities
The proceedings of the international conference “Έλλην”, “Ρωμηός”, “Γραικός”: Collective Identifications and Identities, which took place from 19 to 21 January 2017, shed broad light on the complex process of the construction of these collective identifications. The speakers of the Conference, which was organized by the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens…
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Migration Routes: First Greek Australian Archive Underway
The generation of Greeks that arrived in the 50s and 60s is fast disappearing. Their stories of adversity, strength, and progress to affluence are soon to be lost with them. Determined to not let this rich part of Australian and Greek history fade away with death notices, Associate Professor Nicholas Doumanis from the School of Humanities &…