HELLENIC DIASPORA - Cities

I would like to start a series of threads showcasing the Hellenic diaspora accross the world.

This thread is about the South American continent, most specifically Buenos Aires. If any one has images or facts that pertain to the presence of individuals of Greek heritage or communities/organizations that were founded by Greek immigrants; I invite you to post them here.

The image (which I can't post) & facts that follow come from another site: www.greece.gr

Cheers


Buenos Aires City Population: 3 million (metropolitan area = 13 million)

Greek community (est.): 12,000

Other Greek Communities: Verisso La Plata, Rosario, Cordoba, Salta, Resistenzia

Greek Authority: Embassy

Ambassador: GEORGE GEORGIOU

Address: Avenida Pte Roque Saenz Pena 547, Piso 4, 1035, Buenos Aires
Tel: +54114 342 4958, 345 6969
Fax: +54114 342 2838

Community Cathedral: Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Julian Alvarez 1030, 1414 Buenos Aires, Tel.: +541 777 6222


Intresting Facts:

Spiros, a battleship in the Argentinian navy, is named in memory of one of many Greek sailors from Hydra, who fought during the Argentinian struggle for independence in the early 19th century. Since then, thousands of Greeks have migrated to Argentina. Emigration from Greece to Buenos Aires peaked between WWI and WWII, when many Greeks arrived from the coastal cities of Asia Minor and the Dodecanese, holding either Ottoman or Italian passports.

The city's most famous Greek immigrant is Aristotle Onassis, a refugee from Smyrna (Izmir), who arrived in Buenos Aires on September 21st, 1923. Onassis engaged in tobacco manufacturing, before purchasing his first merchant ship in the early 1930s. He later became one of the world's wealthiest men. In 1932, Onassis was appointed Honorary Deputy Consul of Greece to Buenos Aires.

Today, the Greek community of Buenos Aires is the largest and wealthiest in Latin America. Many are successful businessmen, shipowners, scholars and writers.