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Why They Left: The Forces That Drove Greek Emigration to America
Between 1880 and 1924, more than 400,000 Greeks left their country for America. They did not leave because they wanted to. They leβ¦
Married by Photograph: The Greek Picture Brides of America
β Greek Picture Brides of America, from Various regions of Greece
Thousands of young Greek women crossed the Atlantic in the early twentieth century to marry men they had never met, knowing them oβ¦