Slide 3, Greek Immigration to America

Greece as it today
Description Greece is 75% mountainous, and only a third of the country is fertile. This is a country with about 11 million people, all of whom live within 90 miles of the water. There are thousands of islands, but only 437 are inhabited and contain about 20% of the population.
Map of Modern Greece [ Skip the map ]	Origins of Greek People in Lancaster County Today About one-third of the Greek people of Lancaster County are from the island of Chios — an island in the east-central Aegean Sea near the coast of Asia Minor. Another third are from the island of Kos — an island among the Dodecanese Islands in the south-east Aegean Sea near the coast of Asia Minor. The rest from other parts of Greece.

Greece as it today

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Greece is 75% mountainous, and only a third of the country is fertile. This is a country with about 11 million people, all of whom live within 90 miles of the water. There are thousands of islands, but only 437 are inhabited and contain about 20% of the population.

Map of Modern Greece

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Origins of Greek People in Lancaster County Today

About one-third of the Greek people of Lancaster County are from the island of Chios — an island in the east-central Aegean Sea near the coast of Asia Minor.
Another third are from the island of Kos — an island among the Dodecanese Islands in the south-east Aegean Sea near the coast of Asia Minor.
The rest from other parts of Greece.

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Greek Immigration to America, a slide presentation, delivered originally as a lecture to the Lancaster County Historical Society, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 3, 2004.

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Published in PAHH, 2005.

Greece as it today

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Map of Modern Greece

Origins of Greek People in Lancaster County Today

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