Migrants- Agia Paraskevi
Family Name: | Manikas |
Name: | Dimitrios |
Year of Birth: | 1950 |
Father's Name: | Nikolaos (Psilometopo) |
Mother's Name: | Stavroula Saraga (Agia Paraskevi) |
Siblings: | Eleni (Philipou) |
Year of Arrival in Australia: | 1974 |
Sponsor: | Dimitrios Saragas (Agia Paraskevi) |
Married: | Georgia Gongosi (Agia Paraskevi) |
Children: | Stavroula, Nikolaos |
City of Residence: | Canberra, ACT, Australia |
Livelihood: | Small Business- Milk Bars |
Above: With my parents, Stavroula and Nikolaos, and my sister, Eleni.
Above Middle: My maternal grandmother, Eleni Saraga, with her great granddaughter, Despina Philippou.
Above Right: A portrait of my father, Nikolaos, in the Greek Army.



Above: With my sister, Eleni.
Above Middle: At the panygiri of Agios Haralambos.
Above Right: With Giorgos Vardaxis (middle) and Dimitrios Vrakatos (right) at a school excursion.


Above: With school friends. From left, we are: Dimitrios Vrakatos, Nikolaos Protogirelis, myself, Theodoros Skarlatis and Ignatios Vouyioukas.
Above Right: Dancing on the Saturday before thefeast day celebrations ofAgios Haralambos. From left, we are: Christos Zafirellis, Ioannis Hatzidanos, a fellow from Thermi, Nikolaos Hatzoglou, Mihalis Komninakas, myself and Efstratios Kolikas.


Above: At the panygiri of Agios Haralambos, organised by Melbourne's Agia Paraskevi Community.
Above Right:With my wife, Georgia.