News from Kythera


  • From Kythera to Chile  |   Emigrants to Latin America. How they left to go so far, where and when... So many people from Kythera and Antikythera in the second part of 19th century went to Argentina and Chile.
  • Mail by Cristian Prineas  |   Congratulations for this wonderful initiative. I'm Chilean Greek descent and my grandfather and my grandmother came to Chile in 1904 from about Ktyhira.
  • Hairedin Barbarossa, an admiral of the Ottoman empire  |   In 1537 Hairedin Barbarossa, an admiral of the Ottoman empire and buccaneer of the shores of Barbaria, ravages and destroys Paleohora, killing civilians while many prisoners are sold as slaves. Paleohora is completely abandoned.
  • Hellenes & Philhellenes  |   Celebrating Maria Hills superb book on the Greek campaign in WWII.
  • The Great Walls of Kythera  |   You can't have visited Kythera without having noticed the incredible stone walls in fields, along mountain ridges, in the old houses now in ruins...
  • The Kythera Power Tower Dump Saga Continues  |   2010 will probably be the year when the government and authorities in Athens decide upon whether Kythera will become a giant industrial wind-power station or not...
  • How immigrants made a cafe society  |   A newly reprinted book reveals the story of early Greek migrants in Australia, writes Anna Patty.
  • "1916" in the BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRINA  |   In keeping with its policy of collecting unique publications from around the world, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) now counts, I ZOI EN AUSTRALIA (Life in Australia), amongst its collection
  • Lecture by Professor Hannah at the Nicholson Museum  |   The Nicholson Museum at The University of Sydney was packed to the rafters Thursday evening for a fascinating presentation on one of the great mysteries of ancient Hellenism: the Antikythera Mechanism. Professor Robert Hannah (Classics, University of Otago, New Zealand) delivered a great illustrated lecture on one of the world’s earliest computing devices. Prof. Hannah combined history, science and personal experience in a fascinating evening.
  • Kythera and the Ionian Islands 1809 to 1864  |  
  • The New Tourist Guide of Kythera  |   It is true! The new website for Kythera has just landed!
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  • "Un mondo fa un mondo, e il Cerigo in altro mondo". All the world is a world and Cerigo (Kythera) is another world