(Excerpt from the book ‘The Greek
community in Mozambique’)
In the 1890s,
lots of Greeks settled in Vila Pery, Cafumpe and other smaller settlements a few
miles from Beira port in Mozambique. Most of them were involved in
agriculture and livestock. Although the Portuguese owned most of the estates, the Greeks were the most prominent producers in the
region's economy. Some of these pioneers were Dimitris and
Paul Babiolakis, Athanasios Biblis, Anastasios Petridis, Aristides Petridis,
Zacharias Zachariadis, George Yalas, Eugenios Koutsis, Emmanuel Damoulakis,
Dimitris Creticos, N. Kougoumis, Poliadis, Andreas Polentas, Kimon Diamantaris,
Emmanuel Vandouzis, Bantoulas, Anthony Galanakis, Dimitris Verghis and Spyros Kavallieratos.
