Novocastrian Hellenes: an insight into Newcastle's Greek settlement

Leonard Janiszewski, Effy Alexakis

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    Abstract

    Located at the mouth of the Hunter River, just over 160 km north of Sydney, Newcastle is the second most populated city in New South Wales and one of its busiest ports. This paper provides an insight into its Greek settlement from the 1830s through to the late twentieth century. From the 1880s, early collective settlement began to establish a “transformative” presence in the city’s food-catering industry – most notably through Ithacan and Arcadian Greeks. By the late 1940s, a formal Greek Orthodox Community of Newcastle was created. Following World War II, Greeks arriving from a variety of areas in Greece overlaid the earlier regional chains of migration. Through these new arrivals, and the offspring of earlier Greek settlers, a diversification of occupations became evident, including for the latter, professional white-collar fields. In the closing decades of the last century, two Novocastrian Greeks held local Federal seats – one acquiring ministerial positions.
    Original languageEnglish
    Article number5
    Pages (from-to)88-115
    Number of pages28
    JournalModern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand)
    Volume20
    Publication statusPublished - 2021

    Keywords

    • Greek-Australian history
    • Newcastle, Australia
    • Greek-Australian studies

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