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Truths Beyond the Aegean: The Gatzolis family of Gioulbaxe
Along the south-eastern coast of the Aegean Sea is the ancient region of Smyrna, where Hellenism flourished since the times of Homer. In its surrounding seaside towns is a small …
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Tracing Darwin’s invisible Greek building
In 1917 my father’s family arrived in Darwin from Kastellorizo as part of a federal government program to import Greeks to help on the Darwin to Tennant Creek railway. Soteres …
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Growing up in Fitzroy, a microcosm for the new, multicultural Australia
If you closed your eyes on Johnston Street in 1950s Fitzroy and listened you would think you were in the middle of Athens with the people rushing off to work, …
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‘At the edge of personalised medicine’: ANU’s Dr Athanasopoulos explains lupus gene discovery
Lupus, like many autoimmune diseases, can slip under your radar if your family is not impacted by it. But for the estimated 1 in every 1,000 Australians affected, news of …
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VASSY has officially tied the knot
It was less than two months ago when VASSY (Vassy Karagiorgos) spoke to Neos Kosmos announcing her imminent marriage with her Greek-American soulmate, Panayioti. The Greek-Australian star, who resides in …
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Mum’s blanket at Melbourne Museum
My dear mum Efstathia Spiropoulos was born in a small village called Flessiada, on the outskirts of Kalamata in the Peloponnese on 10 June 1920. The village, being high in …
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The Anzac story of the church at Imbros
Perched on the southern edge of the Askyfou Plain, the village of Imbros is the last hamlet you pass, before the road dives down the rugged mountainside to Chora Sfakion. …
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Greek Genocide: A first hand account from survivor Gervasios Kosmidis
On the 26th of August 2001 I had the opportunity and privilege of meeting and interviewing Mr. Gervasios Kosmidis during my visit to Adelaide, South Australia as part of a …
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A modern vestige of ancient thought
“…There gradually emerged a people, not very numerous, not very powerful, not very well organised, who had a totally new conception of what human life was for, and showed for …
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Rethymno 1941 – Yarraville’s Warrant Officer Thomas Fenton and the US Connection
This month will see the Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic address the US Congress, a visit that coincides with the 81st anniversary of the Greek campaign of 1941. In …