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Stavros K. Frangos, author of Greeks in Michigan, stated "From the 1890s to the present all available sources agree that" about one third of Michigan's Greek Americans live in Metro Detroit. [2] At the turn of the 20th Century the first Greek immigrants arrived. [1] The first year of entry was 1886. [2]
Arriving in the early 1870s, the first Middle Eastern settlers in the Detroit area were Lebanese people. Most of them were Christians, including Maronites, Melkites, and Eastern Orthodox. Some immigrants were Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims. Some Druze also immigrated. [1]
That year, Wayne County had 77,207 Latinos, the largest number of Latinos in any Michigan county, with 61% of them living in Detroit. Of the Latinos, 53,538 were Mexican, 9,036 were Puerto Rican, and 1,595 were Cuban. In Michigan Wayne County has the highest numbers of Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans.
Greektown, Detroit. / 42.33500°N 83.04222°W / 42.33500; -83.04222. Greektown is a commercial and entertainment district in Detroit, Michigan, located just northeast of the heart of downtown, along Monroe Avenue between Brush and St. Antoine streets. It has a station by that name on the city's elevated downtown transit system known as ...
Symposia Detroit in the Atheneum Suite Hotel, 1000 Brush St., Detroit. 313-962-9366; symposiadetroit.com A spread of dishes from Balkan House in Hamtramck. Hamtramck
The lively Greektown Historic District on the eastern edge of downtown Detroit is a bustling hub of entertainment and culture. Its Victorian-era commercial streetscape is adorned with a variety of ...
The Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Detroit is one of the Metropolises of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America with 46 parishes. [citation needed] The Metropolis of Detroit, oversees parishes in the states of Michigan, Arkansas, Kentucky, and parts of Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, and Upstate New York .
Greek American novelist Jeffrey Eugenides won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex, about a Greek American family in Detroit. In 1967, Academy Award-winning film-director Elia Kazan published a novel, The Arrangement: A Novel, about a conflicted Greek American living a double life as an advertising executive and muckraking journalist ...