"Hellenism in Romania" article published in The Athenian - 1992

 

Hospotar Michael Soutsos,
last Greek Prince of Moldavia

Hellenism in Romania, Romania has always hosted an active and prosperous Greek community, one that has served as a bridge between Athens and Bucharest -  article published in The Athenian by Deborah Renee Killian, December 1, 1992.

"It was the summer of 1949. The eight-year-old boy found himself being herded across the Greek-Albanian borders along with hundreds of other children, as the remnants of the defeated Greek communist armies in the civil war fled behind the Iron Curtain. His younger sister, only six months old at the time, died in his arms.

Young Sotiris Fotopoulos was soon sent on from Albania to Romania, ending up as one of the exiled members of the Greek community there. Ultimately, Fotopoulos was to become today’s President of the Union of Greeks of Romania, thereby following in the tradition of a community that has played a key role in the progress of this Central European nation."

Read the entire article at - 

https://www.the-athenian.com/site/1992/12/01/hellenism-in-romania/