| |
|
|
| |||||||
 |
| | LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
27th November 2006, 10:22
| #1 | |||||||||||
| Premium Member   Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 430
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Rep Power: 2 
|  Greeks of the Diaspora 1  Greece Athens 10,744,740 (2001 census) 2  United States Washington, D.C. 1,213,807 (2000 census) – an estimated 3,000,000 claim Greek descent 3  Cyprus Nicosia 689,471 (2001 census, in gov. controlled area) 4  Australia Canberra 375,703 (2001 census) – 700,000 (est.) 5  Germany Berlin 354,500 (est.) – 370,000 (2006 est.) 6  Canada Ottawa 215,105 (2001 census) – 450,000 (est.) 7  South Africa Cape Town 120,000 (est.) – see also 8  Russia Moscow 97,827 (2002 census) – 150,000 (est.) 9  Ukraine Kiev 91,500 (2001 census) – 250,000 (est.) 10  Albania Tirana 58,785 (1989 census) – 400,000 (est.) 11  France Paris 35,000 (est.) 12  Brazil Brasília 25,000 – 30,000 (est.) 13  Belgium Brussels 25,000 (est.) – 35,000 (est.) 14  Argentina Buenos Aires 20,000 (est.) – 30,000 (est.) 15  Italy Rome 20,000 (est.) – 30,000 (est.) 16  Georgia Tbilisi 15,166 (2002 census) – 120,000 (est.) 17  Kazakhstan Astana 12,703 (1999 census) – 120,000 (est.) 18  Sweden Stockholm 12,000 – 15,000 (est.) – 20,000 (est.) 19  United Kingdom London 10,000 – 15,000 (est., excluding Greek Cypriots) – 300,000 (est.) ****The rest of the 106 countries listed, had bellow 10,000, thus didn't include them. Greek Australian is seventh largest ethnic group in Australia, numbering 375,703 or 1.8 % of respondents in the 2001 Census. The census recorded 116,530 Greek-born in Australia, although this excludes persons of Greek ethnicity and culture born elsewhere, notably Cyprus (10,560), Egypt (5,480) and Albania (50). The website www.hellenism.net estimates the number of Greeks living in Australia at 336,782 people (based on a 1986 ethnic origin census), which would be 2.2 % of Australia's 1986 population. 39.3 % of these 336,782 Greek Australians were born in Greece, 49.8 % were born in Australia, 4.8 % were born in Cyprus, 2.5 % were born in Egypt and 3.6 % were born in another or unknown place. The first Greek migrants to Australia were seven convict sailors convicted of piracy by a British naval court in 1829. Though pardoned, two of the seven settled in the country. Groups of Greeks first settled in significant numbers during the gold rushes of the 1850s. The 1901 census recorded 878 Greek-born, but this must surely omit a few hundred other ethnic Greek migrants from the Ottoman Empire and elsewhere. The expulsion of Greeks from Asia Minor in 1922-23 led to further Greek migration to Australia, primarily to New South Wales. These Greeks are difficult to trace but the number of Greeks from Greece proper had risen to 12,291 by the time of the 1947 census. Greeks - alongside Italians were one of the main groups targeted by Australian Government migration schemes in the 1950s and 1960s. By 1971 there were 160,200 Greek-born persons in Australia, and smaller numbers from Cyprus and Egypt. 47 % settled in Melbourne, with the consequence that the city is reputed to have the second largest concentration of Greeks in the world. This has earned Melbourne the honour of being the largest Greek city outside Greece itself. Today, just under half of the Greek-born (49.6 %) live in Victoria, with a further third in New South Wales (31.7 %). It is likely that most Greek Australians also follow this settlement pattern. In comparison, only 24.7 % of Australians as a whole live in Victoria, underlining the density of the Greek presence there. Greek Australians have an exceptionally high rate of return migration to Greece. In December 2001, the Department of Foreign Affairs estimated that there were 135,000 Australian citizens resident in Greece. These must mostly be returned Greek emigrants with Australian citizenship, and their Greek Australian children. According to census data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 2004, Greek Australians are, by religion, 5.2 % Catholic, 2.9 % Anglican, 83.5 % Other Christian (mainly Greek Orthodox), 1.3 % Other Religions, and 7.1 % No Religion. In 2001, the Greek language was spoken at home by 263,717 persons in Australia. Greek is the fourth most widely spoken language in the country after English, the Chinese languages, and Italian. 50.9 % of Greek speakers in Australia were born there, the third highest proportion after indigenous Australian languages and English. ****It is worth noting the government recognizes at least 600,000 people of being of Greek decent, ie "Greek" Australians. Notable Greek Australians Business
Last edited by Rev; 27th November 2006 at 10:56. | |||||||||||
|  |
|
27th November 2006, 10:29
| #2 | |||||||||||
| Premium Member Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 430
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Rep Power: 2
| A Greek American is a citizen of the United States of Greek heritage or descent. According to the 2000 U.S. Census Report, there were 1,153,295 people of Greek heritage living in the United States that year, while according to the State Department in 2005 an estimated 3,000,000 Americans residents in the United States claim Greek descent[1]. 365,435 Americans spoke Greek at home. Greek Americans have a heavy concentration in New York City (most notably in Astoria, in the NYC borough of Queens), Detroit, and Chicago. Tarpon Springs, Florida is also home to a large Greek-American community. The first Greek known to have arrived on U.S. soil was a man named Don Theodoro, who landed on Florida with the Narváez expedition in 1528 [2][3]. He died during the expedition, as did most of his companions. In 1592, Greek captain Juan de Fuca (Ioannis Fokas or Apostolos Valerianos) sailed up the Pacific Coast in search of the fabled Northern Passage between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. He reported discovering a body of water that was later identified as the strait that today bears his name. The Juan de Fuca Strait forms part of the International Boundary between the United States and Canada. In 1768, about 500 Greeks from Smyrna, Crete and Mani settled in New Smyrna, Florida (near present-day New Smyrna Beach). The colony was unsuccessful, and the settlers moved to St. Augustine, Florida in 1776, where their traces were lost to history. [4][5] The first significant Greek community to develop was in New Orleans during the 1850s. By 1866, the community was numerous and prosperous enough to have a Greek consulate and the first Greek Orthodox church in the United States.[6]. During that period, most Greek immigrants to the New World came from Asia Minor, and those Aegean islands still under Ottoman rule. By 1890, there were almost 15,000 Greeks living in the U.S. Immigration picked up in the 1890s, mostly because economic opportunity in the U.S., displacement caused by the hardships of Ottoman rule, the Balkan Wars and World War I. 450,000 Greeks arrived to the States between 1890 and 1917, most working in the cities of the Northeast and smaller numbers hired labor for the railroads and mines of the American West; another 70,000 arrived between 1918 and 1924. Greek immigration, contrasted with most other European immigrantion to the US, at this time was over 90% male (Italian and Irish immigration which averaged 50% to 60% male). Many Greek immigrants expected to work and return to their homeland after earning capital and dowries for their families. Two factors changed attitudes and facilitated permanent immigration. 1) Loss of homeland: In 1913 at the conclusion of the Balkan Wars, the home towns of 60,000 Greeks in America were converted to Bulgarian territory, and, in 1923, the homes of approximately 250,000 Greeks in America were converted from Ottoman to Turkish territory and, in both cases, these Greeks were de jure denaturalized from those homelands and lost the right of return and their familes were made refugees. 2) The first widely implimented US immigration limits against Europeans were made in 1923, creating an impetus for immigrants to apply for citizenship, bring their families and permanently settle in the U.S. Less than 30,000 arrived between 1925 and 1945, many of whom were "picture brides" for single Greek men.[7] The events of the early 1920's also provided the stimulus for the first permanent national Greek American religious and civic organizations. Greeks again began to arrive in large numbers after 1945, fleeing the economic devastation caused by World War II and the Greek Civil War. From 1946 until 1982, approximately 211,000 Greeks emigrated to the United States. These later immigrants were less influenced by the powerful assimilation pressures of the 1920's and 1930's and revitalized Greek American identity, especially in areas such as Greek language media. After the 1981 admission of Greece to the European Union, numbers fell to an average of less than 2,000 annually. In recent years, Greek immigration to the United States has been minimal; in fact, net migration has been towards Greece. Over 72,000 U.S. citizens currently live in Greece (1999); most of them are Greek Americans. The predominant religion among Greeks and Greek-Americans is Eastern Orthodox Christianity. There are also a number of Americans who descend from Greece's large Sephardic and Romaniote Jewish communities.
| |||||||||||
|
| |
|
27th November 2006, 10:31
| #3 | |||||||||||
| Premium Member Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 430
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Rep Power: 2
| Actors
Peter Voulkos, sculptor, Ceramic's art innovator. Business
Photographers
| |||||||||||
|
| |
|
27th November 2006, 10:32
| #4 | |||||||||||
| Premium Member Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 430
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Rep Power: 2
| Politics
|
