An undated pictures from Trapezous, clearly from the late 1930s
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An undated pictures from Trapezous, clearly from the late 1930s
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A wonderful early and rare postcard from the Greek island of Tenedos, probably around 1905
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Therapia was a delightful little town north of Constantinople on the left bank of Bosporus. Known now as Tarabya, a paraphrase of the Greek name, Therapia was the
weekend and summer home of the rich Fanariotes. The prettiness shown in this 1912 postcard can be felt even now, although the old houses (shown here as brand new
with red roofs) are in rather dilapidated conditions.
Tarabya can be reached from Constantinople by car, going north about 30 minutes after Bebek (where the famous Robert College (today's Boyazici University) used to be),
although it may take 60 minutes during weekend traffic.
In Therapia one could also find the miracle-giving icon (and church) of Aghia Paraskevi, which has now been transferred to the state of New York.
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Here is a very nice postcard of the Hotel Tokatlian in 1910 as indicated by the stamp on the back. This was the most cosmopolitan hotel of the region and you will see its progression over the years to the present Tarabya hotel
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Dyrrhachion had a small Greek population before 1914, so it is not exactly a "lost" Greek city, but it pleases me to offer here a very old postcard of its harbor
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Although I dated it as 1923, its Austrian stamp confuses me. Earlier? Or simply mailed from an Austrian city?
Let us not forget that Dyrrhachion was the beginning of the Egnatia Odhos that ended up in Constantinople.
If you have not visited the island of Halki, one of the Prigkiponisoi in Propontis (Marmara) sea, you should! It is a pretty island of orchards. The Orthodox School of Halki (the main school for preparation and education of the clergy of the Greek Patriarchate of Constantinople is still there and remains closed since the mid 1970s
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A 1908 postcard of beautiful Halki
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A nice postcard (1905?) of the port of Halki
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Αλλη μια ωραια καρτ ποσταλ της Ελληνικης Χάλκης
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And on the occasion of mentioning Propontis (Marmara) sea, here is a wonderful picture of Viktoria Luise in Constantinople that I discussed further in http://www.nautilia.gr/forum/showthread.php?t=52271
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Σε αυτό το θέμα, εννοποιήσαμε -σε συννενόηση με το Nicholas Peppas- τα λιμάνια των περιοχών που άλλοτε κατοικούσαν Έλληνες. Εξαιρέσαμε τη Σμύρνη που λόγω σημασίας κράτησε το δικό της θέμα.
Δεν ξέρω, εάν το παρόν θέμα είναι το ιδανικό, αλλά 1. αναφέρεται στις χαμένες πατρίδες και 2. δε μου φάνηκε σωστό να ανοίξω ολόκληρο νέο θέμα για μια και μόνο διαφήμιση. Εάν οι διαχειριστές το θεωρούν λάθως, παρακαλώ πείτε το μου και θα το μετακινήσω σε νέο θέμα! ;)
Δρομολόγια του Αυστριακού Lloyd του έτους 1845.
Κάθε Τρίτη από Κωνσταντινούπολή για Σμύρνη, μέσω Τενέδου!
It is not sacrilegious to have it here! And it is an incredibly interesting ad!
Thanks
For those not familiar with the old Turkish names, in Greek the route described here was: Constantinople, Kallipolis, Ellispontos, Tenedos, Troy, Mytilene, Smyrna
Also if you really want travel adventures to Aegean travel (and if you know French) I highly recommend the book Voyage de la Troade by J. B. Lechevalier, J.B. Sawrey Morritt (Dentu, Paris, 1802) that contains trips from Athens (sic) to Skyros and then Lesvos and Troy!
You can read a good chunk of the book in
http://books.google.com/books?id=PjI...zqPSZCPH-Cbtwe
Himara was a main Greek center in North Epirus. Its history is well known to all Greeks... For people interested in maritime events, Himara's name has been associated with the biggest maritime accident in the Greek passenger history, the 1946 loss of the passenger ship Himara that was traveling from Thessaloniki to Piraeus...
Here is a photograph of Himara around 1995.
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Mια φωτογραφία της Κωνσταντινούπολης, πιθανότατα του 1922-23, τότε που οι Ρωμιοί πλημμύριζαν τα σοκάκια της.
Η φωτογραφία είναι τραβηγμένη από το Γαλατά και σε πρώτο πλάνο ένα υπερωκεάνειο με 2 φουγάρα ξεχωρίζει από τα φορτηγά που περιμένουν στις εκβολές του Κεράτιου.
Πρέπει να είναι το NEW YORK, ένα όμορφο σκαρί ναυπηγημένο το 1888 ως CITY OF NEW YORK, από τα πρωτοπόρα υπερωκεάνεια μαζί με το αδελφάκι του CITY OF PARIS.
Να και το σχετικό απόσπασμα πως βρέθηκε στην Πόλη:
Πηγή με φωτο και περισσότερα για την ιστορία του.Παράθεση:
In 1922 she went to the Irish American Line and later the same year to the United Transatlantic Line. On June 10th 1922, she left New York for the last time for the American Black Sea Line on a voyage to Naples and Constantinople where she was sold for demolition at auction by order of the US government. The New York spent her last days in Genoa, where she was scrapped in 1923.
Για την εταιρεία αυτή που προσέγγιζε και σε Ελληνικά λιμάνια θα γράψουμε σύντομα εδώ.
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Η φωτο είχε δημοσιευτεί στο περιοδικό Αργώ χωρίς σχόλια για την ταυτότητα του πλοίου.
Ari: Since you brought Constantinople for discussion here is a 1904 postcard of Bosporus just north of the city, at Buyuk Dere. The area just north of Therapia (see above) used to be known as Vathys Kolpos and was populated by the Christians of the city. It was their summer residence. In the lower part of the village (seen here), lived the Armenians and Greeks while in the upper part, on the hill, one could see the summer residences and gardens of the various ambassadors.
Here is a passage from A Handbook for Travelers in the Ionian Islands, Greece, turkey, Asia Minor and Constantinople, published by John Murray in London in 1845
"on the fine moonlight nights, when the dark blue sky mingles with the deep blue of Bosphorus (sic)... when caiques full of Greek singers and guitar-players glide with their tones along the banks, and the balmy air of the night wafts the softest Ionian melodies over the waters...."
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Constantinople in 1929
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Constantinople in 1953 just before the major destruction of the Greek properties in Pera and elsewhere
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And here is a 1905 postcard of Constantinople showing almost the same area... We are looking towards Galata
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Kydoniae (Aivali) were a major Greek center in the Aegean about 100 km north of Smyrna. A rich center of Hellenism it vanished in 1922.
Here is a photograph from 1898
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This is a map showing the Greek regions that Eleutherios Venizelos would attempt to place under Greek Influence in Paris. His request included Avlon, Veration, Monastirion, Philippoupolis, Adrianople, Raidestos, Saranta Ekklisies, Constantinople, all Asia Minor, all Pontus, Crete and all Propontis (Marmara)
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I do not want to be misunderstood and this Forum is not the place for political discussions. I am uploading this nice map that indicates major Greek population expansion in the late 1910s and how the Treaty of Sevres had decided to allocate the lands... Of course we all know what happened in 1922...
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Alexandria... What wonderful Greek neighborhoods in the 19th century, what wonderful cultural life.... Greek started populating it long time ago in the 19ths century there was a huge Greek community in Alexandria that flourished beyond belief... Cretans, Rhodians, Cassians, Carpathians, Constantinopoliteans, Pontians and many Elladikoi Greeks from mainland Greece moved to Alexandria.
Earlier this year I published a book VASSO ARGYRIS: The life of a “wonderful singer” revisited. Argyris (1907-75), whose family came originally from Rhodes, was born in Alexandria and studied music there. After an early career in the Greek cinema (he was the jeune premier in the Gaziadis movie Exo ftohia of 1932, costarring with Vasso Manolidou) and after recording several popular hits of that period he left for Austria and Germany. In the 1930s he became the leading tenor of the Berlin State Opera and then in the late 1940s he was the main tenor of the New York City Opera.
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In my book, I have used extensively pictures and postcards from old Alexandria and I would like to share some with you here.
Alexandria harbor in 1916.
Alexandria was the main port of Egypt and a very important commercial center in the 1875-1940 period. Alexandria had direct connection with Marseilles, Naples, Genoa, Piraeus, Constantinople and Odessa with fast passenger ships (photograph from the author’s collection)
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Zizinia Theater in Alexandria in 1910
(postcard from the author’s collection)
The Zizinia Theater was located on rue Rosette. It was built in 1863 by Greek merchant Menander Tzitzinias (Zizinia in Italian). Ulysses Lappas made his first stage appearance there in 1903, as a member of the children's chorus in "Carmen" at the Zizinia opera house. Sarah Bernhardt appeared then in 1907. The theater was demolished in 1916 and replaced in 1926 by the Mohamed Ali Theater, later changed to Sayed Darwin Theatre, and now the Alexandria Opera House. In the 1920s, it was commonly called the Zizinia Theater.
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Antoniades Gardens near the Mahmudiya canal in Alexandria (1907).
The Antoniades Gardens were a staple of early twentieth century
Alexandria and were a nice meeting place of the European community of Alexandria
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Again, sections from my book VASSO ARGYRIS: The life of a “wonderful singer” revisited.
The Moharrem Bey quarter of Alexandria was located along the northern side of the Mahmudiya canal. The quarter had many fine houses and gardens stretching eastward for a considerable distance and was a favorite residence of wealthy citizens. These were very beautiful times for the Greeks of Alexandria who were noble and rich, truly some of the best Greeks outside of Greece who were always helping the mother country. This Greek community of Alexandria produced cultural figures such as the poet Costa Cavafy, the tenors Ulysses Lappas (1890-1975) and Nicola Filacuridi (1921-2009), the actor and singer Georges Guetary and so many others, including of course Vasso Argyris (1907-75). [NB: In much later times, the popular singer Dakis was Egyptiot]
Greek Alexandrine boat Olga 1909
(photograph from the author’s collection)
Here is a small passenger boat called Olga. She carries a Greek flag
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Moharem Bey in 1910
(postcard from the author's collection)
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Aeschylos-Arion Theater of the Greek community of Alexandria
This postcard was issued to raise funds for the completion of the building in 1926
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The French Passenger Ship L'Equateur (Messageries Maritimes) in Alexandria
This ship was doing the trade of East Mediterranean sea for many years
Built in 1875 in La Ciotat, she was quite big, 3,716 tons, and stayed with its first company for 47 years, until its scrapping in 1922...
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Δεν είναι εικόνα από την Τραπεζούντας αλλά θεωρώ ότι σχετίζεται με τους ανθρώπους που έζησαν στα παράλια του Εύξεινου Πόντου. Η φωτογραφία είναι από τον υγειονομικό σταθμό της Μακρονήσου στα 1922. Η λεζάντα αναφέρει: «Εδώ περιθάλπονταν οι 6000 Έλληνες πρόσφυγες από την Τραπεζούντα, που μόλις είχαν φτάσει με ατμόπλοια.»
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Πηγή: Από το blog της Τ. Μήτρου.
Η φωτογραφία ανοίγει σε υψηλότερη ανάλυση.
The Russian city of Odessos [Odessa] was a center of Hellenism from 1800 to about 1920. Many Greek merchants flourished there and some of them (notably Gr Maraslis or Marasleios Scholi fame) became major national donors and philanthropists.
I am attaching here a longer document written by A Zografos of Odessa and printed in Skokos' Diary (Imerologion Skokou) in 1902. It is worth reading for its wealth of information about this city in the late 1800s but also about the contributions of her Greeks... There are also some very nice pictures in it.
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I am attaching here more pages of a document written by A Zografos of Odessa and printed in Skokos' Diary (Imerologion Skokou) in 1902. It is worth reading for its wealth of information about this city in the late 1800s but also about the contributions of her Greeks... There are also some very nice pictures in it.
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I am attaching here more pages of a document written by A Zografos of Odessa and printed in Skokos' Diary (Imerologion Skokou) in 1902. It is worth reading for its wealth of information about this city in the late 1800s but also about the contributions of her Greeks... There are also some very nice pictures in it.
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Wonderful postcards of Odessa during the time of the Greek community's zenith! First, the harbor in 1915
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And then a postcard of Odessa from 1904 showing Deribas Street
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And a postcard of Odessa from 1910 showing the Odessa stock exchange
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The main post office of Odessa in 1912
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Enjoy this one from 1908. A HAPAG cruise to Alexandria!
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And one from the the Alexandria port area
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Πραγματικά ιστορικά κειμήλια οι φωτογραφίες και τα έγγραφα που παρουσίασε ο κ. Πέππας.
Ελπίζω πάντα να μας καταπλήσσει με τις παρουσιάσεις του.
Thank you very much my friend Toxoti. We too enjoy your wonderful pictures of old Liners and other items! It sounds like we are the same age...
I am appending below an excerpt from a Greek newspaper (I did not write down its name) that talks about ships coming to Piraeus from Russia in June 1905. The article mentions the uprising of Potemkin. Those not familiar with this very important page of the Russian history are urged to read at least http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles...emkin_uprising
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Of the cities mentioned, Taiganion (today's Taganrog, Таганро́г) was a very important city in the Greek-Russian history. Taiganion was on the very NE site of the Azof Sea, about 100 miles west of Rostov, therefore always in Russia and not in the Ukraine. In the beginning of the 20th century it had about 58,000 people (86,000 by 1928 ). The city had many Greeks and Jews and was a major commercial center. After the 1917 revolution, many Greeks remained in Taiganion and after 1922 many Pontians and other Greeks were added. The community is still active and the Greek ambassador in Moscow visited them just a year ago. Taganrog is also famous as the birthplace of Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), the beloved Russian playwright whose theatrical plays were extremely popular in Athens between 1945 and 1975, especially in performances by Dimitris Myrat and Voula Zoumboulaki.
Here I show two postcards of the pre-revolutionary era showing Taganrog's theater and its (Russian Orthodox) cathedral of the Assumption (Analipsis)
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Of course the most famous Greek citizen of Taiganion was Ioannis Varvakis (Ivan Varvatski) who was known as a trader and then benefactor of Taiganion. His early contribution to the city was the Varvakios Mansion that became a Commercial School. The readers are reminded that Varvakis did the same in Athens establishing the Varvakios Scholi that was extremely popular as a high school in my days (is it still?). Here is the Varvakios Mansion in Taiganion in the 1870s!
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For more information on the life of Ioannis Varvakis, please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioannis_Varvakis
Taiganion (today's Taganrog, Таганро́г) was a very important city in the Greek-Russian history. Taiganion was on the very NE site of the Azof Sea, about 100 miles west of Rostov, therefore always in Russia.
The city had a wonderful opera theater, built there in the 1860s for Italian opera. Its impressario was Gaetano Molla. Here is a playbill of Elena of Offenbach from the Taiganion Theater
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Two Greek sons of Taiganion became internationally known artists...
First, the Russian tenor David Yuzhin (1868-1923) was born here (although Kutsch and Riemens do not disclose the birth place simply stating "born in Russia"). His name was Dimitrios Bandekos but the family took the Russian name for assimilation. As a youth he sang in church choirs. He was professionally trained in St. Petersburg. Like many of his contemporaries, he gained experience by appearing in Harkovo, Odessa and other cities, although probably not in Taiganion. In 1901 he joined the Bolshoi Theater where he met his future wife, Nataliya Yermolenko-Yuzhina, another famous soprano. Numerous of their 78 rpm records exist, many of them transcribed in CDs. This writer has written a biography of David Yuzhin http://www.che.utexas.edu/research/biomat/bio/extra.htm that can be obtained upon asking. Here is David Yuzhin-Bandekos as Lionel in Marta of Flotow.
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The second was Dimitrios Synodinos, known in Russian as Dmitri Sinodi-Popov (Дмитрий Минаевич Синоди-Попов), a major Russian painter (1855-1910), active in Paris during his last few years. His house is still seen in Taganrog (see below). A nice biography can be found in the Russian Wikipedia http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%...B2%D0%B8%D1%87
His portraits of local Greeks are very well known: Portrait of Doctor Divaris, Greek Boy and An Old Greek
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The other city mentioned above is Nikolayev (Николаев, today's Mykolaiv in the Ukraine). Today a terrible city of 500,000 people, Nikolayev was a wonderful interior port located between Odessa and Crimea. She had about 75,000 people in 1905, going up to 101,000 in the census of 1926. See also http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%...81%D1%82%D1%8C)
There was a small Greek community, very successful in trade and the arts. Here is the Duma in 1900. The city is best known to Greeks because of the success of the 7th syntagma of the Greek Army that (as part of the anti-bolshevik campaign) occupied Nikolayev from February 17 to 28, 1919.
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The attached period map show of the Greek "centers" in the Black Sea including Nikolayev and Taganrong
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One more photograph from 1902 showing the Therapia bay.
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And here is another wonderful postcard of Therapia in 1902, when it was a relaxed, vacation town for the Greek, Armenian and Jewish population of Constantinople
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Another old postcard from Therapia. Admire its beauty and luxury
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A 1901 postcard of Sinope, today's Turkish Sinop. Sinope is located in Black Sea. She was part of the Empire of Trapezous during the Byzantine period. In 1918 the town had about 12,000 Greek inhabitants
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Samsous, today's Turkish megalopolis of 750,000 with the name Samsun, was a thriving Greek city close to Trapezous, with regular passenger liners between the two cities. But by 1919 most Greeks had moved either to Asia Minor or to Armenia and Russia. This is how Georgia got a large Pontian population... It was here that Kemal Atatürk started his new Turkey in 1919.
Here you see the Greek Othodox Metropolis of the city in 1912.
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Another city on the Black Sea, Kerasous, in 1902
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Triglia, today's Tirilye, was a smaller town in Propontis, about 15 km from Moudania. A major focus of Greek life, this town had produced many notable Greek merchant. Most prominent was Philippos Kavounides, the patriarch of the Kavounides family.
During the Asia Minor catastrophe, the Kavounides family (and its ships) saved many inhabitants of the town. Eventually, some of them came to Arafin/Rafina which they renamed Nea Triglia for a few years. (NB: The Rafina football team, typically playing in the First Local Division, is also called Triglia)
Here is an undated photo from Triglia. Credit: Ozhan Gürsoy
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Nicholas,
Congratulations on this excellent piece of research. This account of Greek trading and presence in the area of the Black Sea and Asia Minor is truly fascinating.......thank you so much!
Best regards
Henry.
Nicholas, indeed I have and am very pleased that she called at Kalamata and paid her last visit to the country that saw her being born and succeed!
Thanks for all your posts and pictures during her brief spell in Greek waters
She is probably at Port Said by now and will soon cross the Suez Canal on her way to the breakers. A great shame to bid farewell to one of the Grande Dames of the ocean.
All the best Henry.
Here is a list of the main passenger lines that served the Black Sea before World War I
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Αγαπητέ Νίκο , Θα μου επιτρέψεις να συμπληρώσω ότι Πρόσφυγες από την Τριγλία πήγαν και στη Χαλκιδική όπου και εκεί δημιούργησαν τη Νέα Τριγλία
Νέα Τρίγλια Χαλκιδικής
Από τη Βικιπαίδεια, την ελεύθερη εγκυκλοπαίδεια
Η Νέα Τρίγλια είναι κωμόπολη και έδρα του Δήμου Τρίγλιας, στο δυτικό τμήμα της επαρχίας του νομού Χαλκιδικής. Η απόστασή της από τη Θεσσαλονίκη είναι γύρω στα 50 χιλιόμετρα. Βρίσκεται σε απόσταση 4 χιλιομέτρων περίπου από τη δυτική ακτή της Χαλκιδικής προς τον Θερμαϊκό και η κτηματική περιοχή της εκτείνεται μέχρι την ακτογραμμή. Αριθμεί 2.905 κατοίκους με βάση την πληθυσμιακή απογραφή του 2001. Οι κάτοικοι είναι ντόπιοι αλλά και πρόσφυγες, προερχόμενοι από την ομώνυμη πόλη του Βοσπόρου. Κύρια ασχολία είναι η γεωργία, η κτηνοτροφία και ειδικότερα οι υπέργηρες ελιές (από το 16ο αιώνα) και οι καλλιέργειες σιτηρών και κηπευτικών. Ανάμεσα στα άλλα, λειτουργούν αγροτικό ιατρείο, ταχυδρομείο, 2 αγροτικοί συνεταιρισμοί, 2 νηπιαγωγεία, 2 Δημοτικά Σχολεία, Γυμνάσιο και Λύκειο, Κέντρο Φροντίδας Οικογένειας, παιδικοί σταθμοί, ΟΤΕ, ΚΑΠΗ και ΚΕΠ (από το 2004).
Thank you τοξότης!
Let me also bring to the attention of all, a wonderful extremely detailed Web site about the old Triglia http://www.pistikidis.gr/triglia.php
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Triglia
Πράγματι πολύ όμορφο και κατατοπιστικότατο
Ευχαριστώ
Μία ακόμη <χαμένη Πατρίδα> είναι ή Κίος
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Πηγή
http://www.musesnet.gr/pages/kios/istoria.htm
Μερικές ακόμη φωτογραφίες
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Ιχθυαγορά Κίου και ένα Κιώτικο αρχοντικό
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Εκδρομή στην Τρίγλεια
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Διοικητήριο Κίου ,1920