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Threading traditions: Hellenic and Assyrian heritages weaved together by love
A few days before the New Year, Greek-Australian Nickie Papadimitriou and Australian-Assyrian Johnathan Hana married. For their big day, they blended traditions from Florina, Greece, with customs rooted in Assyria, …
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Celebrating 2350 years since Alexander’s transformative encounter in India
Enduring historical connections In 2018, the then-president of India, Ramnath Kovind, said, “The most famous Greek to come to India was Alexander the Great. He arrived at the head of …
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Greek Australian Alessia Tsolakis named finalist in the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Design Awards
Greek Australian industrial designer Alessia Tsolakis earned a spot as a finalist in the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Design Awards in the Student’s Design category, for her work in developing a …
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Kazamias 2024: Dean Kalimniou predicts the events set to take place in the new year with a twist
ΚΑΖΑΜΙΑΣ 2024 Having observed every single New Year’s custom made mention of on the internet, including but not limited to: the ritual hurling of the fortuitous pomegranate upon the threshold …
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How the New Year is celebrated in Greece and around the world
In Greece, we call New Year’s Πρωτοχρονιά or αρχιχρονιά, which mean the first day of the year. In most countries, the first of the new year is established as an …
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Neos Kosmos: You the readers, and the community, are the heart of our story
As the year comes to a close Neos Kosmos would like to acknowledge and thank our readers and the many Greek Australian community organisations, sporting clubs, and businesses that support …
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Xenophon, Mithridates and Trebizond, a brief look at Pontus
Pontus is one area of the Hellenic world that conjures pride and sadness at the same time. Greek colonists made their way, far from the Greek heartland around the Seventh …
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New Year superstitions: Breaking a pomegranate brings good luck, a broken mirror brings gloom
There are many superstitions that have become well-established in society, like the seven years’ abd luck if one breaks a mirror or throwing the salt over one’s left shoulder to …
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Melbourne becomes “ANGE TOWN” in artistic visual narrative
Three passionate Greek Aussie football fans have turned Melbourne into “ANGE TOWN” with giant posters of Ange Postecoglou put up in the city’s iconic Hosier Lane. Visitors of the lane …
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Looking back on the front pages
January The year began as always for Hellenes with Theophania, the blessing of the waters on January 7, when young men, mainly, and increasingly now women, dive into the waters …