Greeks in the Netherlands

Greeks in the Netherlands
Grieken in Nederland
Έλληνες στην Ολλανδία

Total population
37,382[1] (CBS, 2023)
Languages
Dutch, Greek
Religion
Greek Orthodox Church
Related ethnic groups
Greeks

Greeks in the Netherlands (Dutch: Grieken in Nederland; Greek: Έλληνες στην Ολλανδία, romanized: Éllines stin Ollandía) number 37,382 as of 2023.

Religion

The first Greek Orthodox congregation in Amsterdam was founded by Metropolitan Gerasimos Avlonites.^[2]

Notable people

Further information: Category:Dutch people of Greek descent

• Nikos Vertis - singer
• Stefania Liberakakis - singer
• Mikaela Fotiadis - half Dutch Greek model
• Marios Lomis - soccer

See also

• Greece portal
• Netherlands portal

• Greece–Netherlands relations
• Greek diaspora
• Immigration to the Netherlands

References

1. "CBS Statline".
2. Authority and Order: John Wesley and his Preachers, Ashgate Publishing, 2005, ISBN 978-0-7546-5454-4, retrieved 2007-12-31, Tyerman has told that John Jones wrote to the patriarch of Smyrna and received confirmation that Erasmus was indeed Bishop of Arcadia, in Crete. The Greeks in Amsterdam, rather than denounce him as an imposture, acknowledged him as founding the first Greek Church there. He was not an ignorant man, but a renowned scholar, having participated in the publication of a serious work in London and Amsterdam.

Bibliography

• Şentürk, Cem (2008), West Thrace Turkish's Immigration to Europe (PDF), The Journal of International Social Research

Further reading

• Dialektopolous, Athanasios; Veenstra, J. (1998), Grieks onderwijs in eigen taal en cultuur in Nederland/Greek education in their own language and culture in the Netherlands, Utrecht: Landelijk Inspraakorgaan Zuid-Europeanen, ISBN 978-90-801472-5-6, OCLC 68088633
• Dialektopolous, Athanasios (2003), Van tweeën een: Bicultureel-tweetalige socialisatie van Griekse leerlingen in Nederland/One of two: bilingual-bicultural socialization of Greek students in the Netherlands (PDF), Ph.D. thesis, University of Groningen, ISBN 978-90-367-1798-4, OCLC 66701422^{[permanent dead link]}

External links

• Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs about relations with the Netherlands Archived 2006-07-15 at the Wayback Machine
• Greek embassy in The Hague
• Greek Expats in the Netherlands