Listed 9 sub titles with search on: Biographies for wider area of: "KALAMATA Province MESSINIA" .
1793 - 1879
POLIANI (Village) THOURIA
1786 - 1825
KALAMATA (Town) MESSINIA
1852 - 1921
Kalamata is where Nikolaos Politis (1852-1921) the Father of Greek Folklore was born and brought up. With the showing of the folkloric wealth, the manuscripts, speeches and deeds of the people as well as with the customs, the legends and their traditions, as these were saved and passed on from one generation to the other, he proved the historic continuity of the Greeks on the basis of their heritage.
This extract is cited March 2003 from the Messenia Prefecture Tourism Promotion Commission URL below, which contains image.
1902 - 1930
In Milia they took to and staied there for three years his mother, his sister, his brother Nikos and he (7 year-old) when his father died. After Milia they went to Alonistena. He staied in Alonistena with his mother when he was 10 year-old, coming back from Milia of Mani. After Alonistena he came in Akovo where the 1787 nominated him war lord and married Katerina Karoussou from Leontari. (Following URL information in Greek only)
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