Konstantinos Varouxis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Βαρουξής) was a
Greek
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journalist and a publisher.
Varouxis was born in
Pyrgos and was descended from a family of journalists. The family had familial ties with the
Spilotopoulos family from
Dimitsana
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, which participated the
Greek War of Independence
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of 1821. In 1892, he ran the weekly paper ''Avgi''. Varouxis was exiled in
Lefkada
Lefkada (, ''Lefkáda'', ), also known as Lefkas or Leukas (Ancient Greek and Katharevousa: Λευκάς, ''Leukás'', modern pronunciation ''Lefkás'') and Leucadia, is a Greece, Greek list of islands of Greece, island in the Ionian Sea on the ...
in 1895. He stood trial on the island and was found innocent. In the same year he ceased publishing Avgis and from 1910 started to publish the ''
Ileia'' newspaper. That ended in 1915. He stopped writing entirely in 1931.
References
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Vyronas Davos
Vyronas Davos (Greek: Βύρων Δάβος; born 1927), is a Greek historian, writer and poet. He was born in the village of Pelopio (now part of the municipality of Olympia) in Elis and moved to Athens as an employee of the fire department. ...
''Sto Pyrgo kai stin Ileia tou 1821-1930'' (''Στον Πύργο και στην Ηλεία του 1821–1930,'' = ''In Pyrgos And In Ilia From 1821-1930''),
Athens
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1996
1996 was designated as:
* International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
Events January
* January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
*''
Patris'', Pyrgos 2003
*Vyron Davos ''Newspapers Of Ilia'', in ''Patris'', Pyrgos, 2003
Greek journalists
People from Pyrgos, Elis
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
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