Greeks in Chile
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| 100,000 Greeks in Brazil |
There has been a community of Greeks in Chile since the sixteenth century. The Greek community in Chile is estimated to have 100,000 descendants.
Immigration
The first immigrants from Greece arrived during the sixteenth century from
Amid this flood of foreigners who populated northern Chilean appeared the Greeks. There were numerous Collectivité Hellenic whose records were listed in the newspaper El Mercurio of Antofagasta, which said that between 1920 and 1935 there were about 4,000 Greeks in the city, and another 3,000 in saltpeter offices.[citation needed]
In 1926 the first women's association for excellence, filóptoxos (friends of the poor) was set up, chaired by Xrisí Almallotis. Since then as of 2022[update] there have been four or five generations of descendants of Greeks. Some have moved south and are grouped mainly in
Antofagasta
Antofagasta is a community in
Notable people
- Miguel Littin, film director, screenwriter, film producer and novelist.
- Ángela Jeria, mother of Michelle Bachelet, president of Chile.[3]
- Irina Karamanos, first lady of Chile.
See also
- Chile-Greece relations
- Greek diaspora
References
- ^ a b Parvex R. (2014). Le Chili et les mouvements migratoires, Hommes & migrations, Nº 1305, 2014. doi:10.4000/hommesmigrations.2720.
- ^ a b Tefarikis, Xrisí (n.d.). "The story of the Greeks in Chile". Apocatastasis.
- ^ "CIDOB".
External links
- Bilateral relations between Greece and Chile Archived 2012-08-13 at the Wayback Machine
- Embassy of Greece in Chile
- Main Greek association in Chile
- Greek association of Antofagasta
- Greek association of Coquimbo
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