Greeks in the Netherlands

Greeks in the Netherlands

Total population
(18,253 (CBS, 2013))
Languages
Dutch, Greek
Religion
Greek Orthodox Church
Related ethnic groups
Greeks

The Greek community in the Netherlands numbers between 4,000 and 12,500 people.

Religion

The first Greek Orthodox congregation in Amsterdam was founded by Metropolitan Gerasimos Avlonites.^[1]

See also

• Dutch-Greek relations

References

1. 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), http://www.sosyalarastirmalar.com: 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

External links

• Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs about relations with the Netherlands
• Greek embassy in The Hague
• Greek Expats in the Netherlands