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published in

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from 1790 to 1797. It is the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today.

History

In 1790, the two Aromanian typographer Markides Pouliou brothers, Poulios and Georgios, from

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, started publishing the newspaper in the Greek, Serbo-Croatian ("Illyrian") and German languages, after successfully negotiating a license from the

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authorities.

, the Austrian capital, was at that time an important commercial center for Greek merchants. The newspaper published the

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in serials, as well as several works by

Rigas Feraios Rigas Feraios ( , sometimes ''Rhegas Pheraeos''; ) or Velestinlis (Βελεστινλής , also transliterated ''Velestinles''); 1757 – 24 June 1798), born as Antonios Rigas Velestinlis (), was a Greek writer, political thinker and revo ...

. The newspaper's run lasted until 1797, when Georgios Markides Pouliou was arrested along with Rigas Feraios for their publication of "revolutionary and godless" works, and the paper was shut down in January 1798.Kōnstantinos Dēmaras
''A history of modern Greek literature.''
SUNY Press, 1972. , p. 162 Many of its original issues can be seen in various public libraries in

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, and in 2000, the Academy of Athens reprinted a collected edition of the newspaper.

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