General History

Sydney Morning Herald, December 9, 2009 page 10. Photo by Jack Patty 's son, Manuel Patty A newly reprinted book reveals the story of early Greek migrants in Australia, writes Anna Patty. The dockets at Aroney's Cafe in...

Dr. George D. Argyropoulos General Secretary September 2006. Contact, George D. Argyropoulos The whole thing started in 1948, when this great Kythirian man, Nikolaos Trifyllis born in a little village called Trifyllianik...

Preserved by Marina S Pentes. The extensive presence of Kytherians in the Central West of New South Wales, centred on Dubbo, can be gauged from the vast number of advertisements in this booklet. Was an advertisement plac...

I am not certain but Athanasios Kominos, from the village of Perleyianika near Potamos, landed in Sydney in 1873, probably as a seaman from New Zealand, when he was 29. He was the son of a farmer, Dimitrios Kominos and h...

Paper delivered by JOHN COMINO Dip Law (SAB), Notary Public to the 1ST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF KYTHERAISMOS Kythera, Greece September 24-26, 2004 “Η πατριδα ενος ανθρωπου ειναι εκει που ευδοκιμει και πλουτιςει" .........

Gilgandra's Kytherian business history. 1910-2000 The Seven Ages of Man All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many par...

The Gollan Milk Bar (85 Woodlark) George Sargent is now the longest running Greek proprietor in Woodlark, having taken up residence in 1936, but a relative youngster in the long run of Woodlark machinations. His shop is...

Kytherians at War Greek Australian VEMA TO BHMA 7/39 April 2002 ANZAC Day Feature Compiled (with the help of many others) and edited by Ann Coward No, this is not an article about feuding fami­lies. It is about Australia...

Central Western Slopes – Warrumbungle District Baradine Antonios Dimitrios Diacopoulos appears to be the Samaritan who brought the loaves and fishes to the Baradinian timber workers. He was 13yrs old when he began his pi...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 assoc...

Hobart's early Greeks: Casimaty family and friends, Hobart, Tasmania, c. 1931. This article first appeared in Neos Kosmos, Monday, 14-4-2003. See, http://www.neoskosmos.com.au/030414/nkew/feature/feature_index.shtml Gre...

North Western NSW – Walgett Plains and Backa Beyond Bourke By common consent Bourke is where the line in the sand defines the start of the outback and where the locals boast that NSW’s highest official temperature of 51....

North Western NSW – Moree Plains Ashley Too Hard. Boggabilla Too Hard. Boomi Anthony Emmanuel Travassaros tried his first café venture here, and gave the locals their first and only Greek experience, around the mid 1930...

North Western NSW – Namoi Valley Bellata Andy and Nick Samios appear to be the first Kytherians to have discovered the place when they followed the swaggies’ trail from Narrabri in 1926. Nineteen year old Andy, his two...