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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]
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 ...
Andrea Dimitry – Greek-American soldier in the War of 1812 fought in the Battle of New Orleans; George Doundoulakis – Greek-American soldier who worked under British Intelligence during World War II and served with the OSS in Thessaly, Greece. Later becoming a physicist, he is known by his twenty-six US patents in the fields of radar ...
As of 1999 120,000 in Metro Detroit indicated they are of Greek descent. [21] 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. [22]
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 ...
Assumption Greek Orthodox Church, University City, MO, NRHP-listed. St. George's Greek Orthodox Church, Southbridge, MA, NRHP-listed. St. Euphrosynia Belarusian Orthodox Church, New Jersey. Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, New York City.
Greek-American cuisine is the cuisine of Greek Americans and their descendants, who have modified Greek cuisine under the influence of American culture and immigration patterns of Greeks to the United States. As immigrants from various Greek areas settled in different regions of the United States and became "Greek Americans," they carried with ...
June 21, 2024 at 2:02 AM. Helen Bomas will celebrate her 95th birthday at the end of June. She is the oldest Greek American living in Marion. She arrived in Marion in the early 1950s when the city ...