Georgios Papandreou (Greek: Γεώργιος Παπανδρέου; 1859–1940) was a

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Georgios Papandreou (born 1859) was a Greek

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, born in

Kalavryta Kalavryta () is a town and a municipality in the mountainous east-central part of the regional unit of Achaea, Greece. The town is located on the right bank of the river Vouraikos, south of Aigio, southeast of Patras and northwest of Tripoli, G ...

. He was a literary figure based on Ilia, as he had been the first person to write about Ilia's history. In his books he always signed as Georgios Papandreou D.F. Papandreou was born in the village of Skoupi (now part of the municipality of Kalavryta) in Achaia, and spent his childhood years in Pyrgos, where he later received education. Eventually, he moved to

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where he studied

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and taught at schools, such as the middle school of

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, as well as the middle school of Kalavryta. Furthermore, he acquired the position of headmaster at the 1st Middle School in Pyrgos for many years. In 1886, he became a PhD of the Athens Philosophical School with likeness in his member ''Away, In Ancient Psophis (περι της αρχαίας Ψωφίδος)''. In 1896, he was proclaimed of linguists with the diatribe ''Away in The Elean Dialect (περί της των Ηλείων διαλέκτου)''. In 1901, he published some of his articles in the newspaper "

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". In 1924, he wrote the book ''Elis In The Middle Of The Century (Η Ηλεία δια μέσου των αιώνων'' = I Ilia dia messou ton eonon). He died on July 26, 1940, in

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, northeast of the Greek capital of Athens.

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