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The building of the Historic archive of
Greek Cappadocian civilization at Nea Karvali of Kavala
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The daily struggle for servival
would be revieled on a sunny Sunday. When they would stroll
in the squares and open spaces, giving business to itinerant
photographers, seeking to prolong memory in this strange land
fate brought them to
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HISTORIC ARCHIVE OF GREEK CAPPADOCIAN
CIVILIZATION
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In the autumn of 1924 after
the destruction of the Greek homelands of Asia Minor, thousands
of Cappadocian Greeks, like all Greeks in Asia Minor, were
uprooted from the land of their fathers and ancestors. They
look with them their Saints and churches, their castles and
heroes of legend. The road to their new homeland was long
and difficult and their destination, strange and cruel. They
established themselves here, where the soil was hard, the
water cloudy and malaria from the swamps carried death. They
fought hard and survived.
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The memories of the refugees,
the photographs, the documents, the books, the icons have
kept to thiw day the tree of Asia Minor alive. Every evening,
in the lamplight of the tents and later the simple dwellings,
gathered around the makeshift fire ("tandour"),
wrapped in blankets, those who survived the hardships of the
refugee life would tell the stories that spoke of Saints and
witches and of life in their homeland ever since man first
walked on it and monks carved its rocks.
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photographs they live on, sometimes smilling, sometimes thoughful
in remembrance of their times. So the years went by....... |
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