Saturday, September 18, 2010

City Guide to Greece from 1875 is available online!

I was excited to recently discover online access to a wonderful Greek genealogical resource: A City Guide for Greece published in 1875 by Miltiades Bouka. If your family was engaged in some kind of business in one of the main cities of Greece at this time, chances are they'll be in this guide. The Guide has been made available on the University of Crete website at:

Οδηγός εμπορικός, γεωγραφικός και ιστορικός των πλείστων κυριωτέρων πόλεων της Ελλάδος του έτους 1875 / Υπό Μιλτιάδου Μπούκα.

http://anemi.lib.uoc.gr/metadata/f/4/6/metadata-01-0000271.tkl

The Guide is written in Greek, but, maybe with a little help from my friends, I will slowly post some of the surnames translated into English.

To start, the cities listed the Guide are as follows:

Athens
Agrinio
Aigio
Amfissa
Andros
Galaxeidion
Zakynthos/Zante
Thira/Santorini
Ithaka
Kalamata
Kerkyra/Corfu
Kefalonia
Corinth
Lamia
Levadia
Mesologgion – no entries
Nafplion
Patras
Piraeus
Poros
Pylos
Pyrgos
Sparti
Spetsi
Syros
Tinos
Tripoli – no entries, info was not received in time.
Halki


*Crete and Thessalonki are not mentioned in this Guide, since they did not belong to Greece at the time.


The University of Crete also lists 3 other Guides which are not currently available. These were all published by Spiridon Kousoulinos (Σπυρίδων Κουσουλίνος)in 1900 and 1904. They are listed as follows:


Οδηγός Αθηνών Πειραιώς και των κυριωτέρων πόλεων της Ελλάδος : 1900.
http://anemi.lib.uoc.gr/metadata/0/d/2/metadata-141-0000486.tkl


Οδηγός Αθηνών Πειραιώς και των κυριωτέρων πόλεων της Ελλάδος : 1900.
http://anemi.lib.uoc.gr/metadata/b/8/d/metadata-01-0001868.tkl


Οδηγός της Ελλάδος : 1904.
http://anemi.lib.uoc.gr/metadata/2/1/a/metadata-235-0000000.tkl


Hopefully, they will also be available sometime soon on the website!

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