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Out of the Balkans

by Jason C. Mavrovitis

Part 1: Out of the Balkans

Chapter 1:
Eleni and Evangelia: Out of Thrace and the Black Sea

Notes

  1. Photo of Eleni. Photo of Evangelia. [Return to the text.]
  2. A vilayet was a Turkish administrative territory or unity, like a state or canton. [Return to the text at note 77.]
  3. Map of the Balkans, 1914 to 1990. [Return to the text.]
  4. See Appendix B for more information about the voyage. [Return to the text at note 79.]
  5. Photos of the eye examination and of the railroad ticket desk for immigrants at Ellis Island are available in the book on CD. [Return to the text at note 80.]
  6. Ellis Island received most of the 9 million immigrants that entered the United States in the first decade of the twentieth century; southern Europeans made up seventy percent of that influx. Approximately 520,000 Greeks came to America between 1900 and 1924. [Return to the text at note 81.]
  7. Edith Abbott, Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, and University of Chicago Graduate School of Social Service Administration., The Social Service Review,vol. 1, Mar. 1927 (Chicago,: University of Chicago Press). [Return to the text at note 82.]
  8. Emphasis added to underscore the passion of the Greek immigrant for his homeland. [Return to the text at note 83.]
  9. It was information in Lily's request for permanent residency that disclosed her mother's marriage to Christos Stamatiou, and Lily's own first marriage. The documents showed that Christos, Eleni and Evangelia moved to Chicago in the spring of 1913, just six months after they arrived in St. Paul. [Return to the text at note 84.]
  10. Avellino is a small city in the mountains to the east of Naples. [Return to the text at note 85.]
  11. Monteleone di Calabria was renamed Vibo Valentia. It is the ancient Hipponium, a Greek colony on the Tyrrhenian Sea, itself founded by another colony, Locri, a city of Magna Graecia on the Tarantine Coast of the Ionian Sea. [Return to the text at note 86.]
  12. The Sicilia carried 10 first class and 620 third class (steerage) passengers. [Return to the text at note 87.]

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