New source on Northern Epirus (1913)
Dr. Ilias Chrissochoidis
Dear list members,
"A Century-Old Debt: The Plight of Northern Epirotes for Self-determination" (The Journal of Modern Hellenism 37 [Winter 2025–26]) presents two documents found during my "excavation" of modern Greek sources at the Hoover Institution in 2014. (https://americanhellenicinstitute.org/s/015_Ilias-Chrissochoidis.pdf)
A summary of the main document ("Memorandum of the Epirotes of the District of Korytza to the Ambassadors at London in 1913") was published in Greek in the same year ("Εκατό χρόνια από τις μεγάλες αλλαγές στην Ηπειρο," Καθημερινή, 27 July 2014). The dozen years separating the two publications make me wish for the establishment of a formal register/depository to accept and offer academic credit for similar archival discoveries.
Best regards,
Ilias Chrissochoidis
Topalidis, Yiorgo
Dear friends and supporters of the Ottoman Greeks of the US Digital History Project (OGUS),
I am pleased to announce that the OGUS Digital Mapping Initiative Team has completed its analysis of a sample of 1,031 Ottoman Greek migrants who settled in the US in the early 20th century. This sample represents one-third of the total we have collected thus far and is part of our mapping project titled In Their Footsteps: Mapping Ottoman Greek Migration to the United States. Our research team manually collected this sample from the publicly available data on the Ellis Island Foundation’s Passenger List Digital Archive. Please consider supporting the Ellis Island Foundation’s tireless efforts with a donation using the link below.
At this juncture, our team has only scratched the surface of the first phase of our analysis. This map includes five interactive renders and a statistical analysis of the places of birth, last residence, port of embarkation, and final destination for all migrants. The fifth render is titled “The Journey,” which illustrates the totality of migration paths taken by each of the migrants from their places of birth to their final destinations. Click on the following link to access the current projects of the OGUS Digital Mapping Initiative. There you will find links to the “In Their Footsteps: Mapping Ottoman Greek Migration to the United States” project and the “OGUS Digital Mapping Initiative Team” website.
Our team would like to thank the Modern Greek Studies Association for recognizing the importance of this research with the “MGSA 2022 Innovation Grant.” The “In Their Footsteps” mapping project would not have commenced without it. According to its mission statement, “The Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA) was founded … by a group of USA-based intellectuals and scholars to showcase the merits of the modern Greek tradition and contemporary Greek culture.” Please consider supporting the Modern Greek Studies Association with a donation using the link below.
Finally, the OGUS Digital Mapping Initiative team will continue to collect, process, and analyze Ottoman Greek immigrant entries in the coming year. If you are interested in advancing the OGUS Digital Mapping Initiative, please click the link below.
Ellis Island Foundation - Donation Page
https://www.statueofliberty.org/donate/
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https://www.mgsa.org/About/supp.html
Ottoman Greeks of the US Digital History Project at Flagler College - Donation Page
As always, thank you for your continued support.
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