Vol. 18 (2025): International Conference Emigration and Literary Discourse
Emigrant Writers and Cultural-Literary Connections in Various Historical Contexts

Cultural and Literary Links of Georgian Emigrants in Greece: (According to Oral Histories)

Marine Turashvili
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University; Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature

Published 2026-02-19

Keywords

  • Migration,
  • Greece,
  • Newspaper,
  • Oral History

Abstract

Migration is one of the great challenges of the modern world, as it is based on many reasons. Since the 90s of the last century, our country has repeatedly become a participant in this great process. They had and still have a small Georgia there – a church, a cultural center, and the newspaper "Ellada". From Decem­ber 2002 to the end of 2016, the newspaper of the Georgian diaspora in Greece, “Ellada,” was published.

Obviously, for Georgian emigrants in Greece, the newspaper "Ellada" is precisely the cultural and literary bridge through which they had a continuous connection with their homeland and at least a little alleviated the difficulties of emigration.