[Excerpt from
the book ‘The Greek community in Zambia’)
Greek traders who had settled in Congo moved to the
then Northern Rhodesia (pr. Zambia) in the 1920s. This movement was motivated
by the completion of the railway line that reached Katanga in 1910 in order BSA
company to benefit from the more rewarding copper mines. Some of the
early Greek migrants of that period were Apostolis Zaloumis, George Germenis,
Gerasimos Raftopoulos, Nikos Pateras, Ioannis Samaras, Gregory Vasilatos,
Symeon Zabatis, Panos Benos, Ioannis Fantakis, George Koubis, Christophoros
Vozos, Gerasimos Sikiotis, Theodore Koubis, Michael Mariotis, Kostas
Konstantinou, George Samaras, Kyrillos Pateras and others.
