Easter Memories from Kontovazena, about 1915, by George Tsakalos |
I found the following story in a pamphlet called the Gortynian Calender, printed in Athens in 1950. I translated it myself, with a lot of difficulty and help from my mother. Hopefully Ive do...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:34:00 GMT |
"Afroditi Erykini" Revisited |
I was lucky enough to receive a much desired book for my birthday this last year: "Afrodite Erykine" by Chrisoula P. Kardara. It's an inch-thick, large, soft-back book published in 1988 by the ...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:09:00 GMT |
Prominent Personalities from Bovitsio (Kontovazena) |
The following article was originally published in December 1983 in the "Ladonas" newspaper. My copy of the article was missing part of the left margin as well as the final line. The areas where...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:35:00 GMT |
New Greek Genealogy Site, Searching Greek Newspapers and Typing in Greek |
Theres an exciting new Greek genealogy site on the net called Hellenic Genealogy Geek. The author of the site, Georgia Keilman, is an American of Greek heritage who has generously shared over 2...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:04:00 GMT |
Kontovazena in "The Land of the Gods" |
Its been so long since Ive posted anything on my blog, that I find myself not knowing where to start. The internet has become an exciting frontier for communication, information and genealog...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:04:00 GMT |
White Greek Chapel by T.K. Papatsonis |
White Greek chapel lashedby sunlight... Vineyards all around you,melon fields, fruit-bearing fig tree and, here and there,solitary, some olive-trees... Toasted and golden,the blades of grass now stea...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:16:00 GMT |
Agios Petros & The Sanctuary of Aphrodite |
The Sanctuary of Aphrodite Erykine On Mt Aphrodision between Kontovazena and Tripotamia (which was ancient Psophis) are the remains of the Sanctuary of Aphrodite Erykine. ...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:48:00 GMT |
Ioannis Iliopoulos |
This article about Ioannis Iliopoulos is from an old magazine. His father came from Dimitra originally and went to Egypt; His mother came from Kontovazena.
Posted by on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:01:00 GMT |
Kandylakia |
I found the this article on Kandylakia by Mary Papoutsy at the following site...
http://www.helleniccomserve.com/kandylakia.html
Check out some of her other articles there too. I f...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:53:00 GMT |
Useful Sites for Greek Genealogy and Historical Research |
In helping a new friend recently, I realized that I needed to put some helpful sites for Greek Genealogical and Historical research on my blog. What follows is a partial list, which I will add ...
Posted by on Tue, 01 May 2007 19:42:00 GMT |
