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The First Greeks in America: From New Smyrna to the Revolution
β Greek Colonists of New Smyrna, Florida, from Greece, Minorca, and the Mediterranean
Greek immigrants did not arrive with the great waves of the 1890s. The first Greek settlement in what would become the United Statβ¦
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¦