(Excerpt from the book ‘The Greek community in Mozambique’)
During the late 19th century lots of Greeks from Lemnos immigrated to Beira in Mozambique such as Dimitris Paraskevas. Paraskevas fled Lemnos around 1885 because he had attacked a Turkish soldier. He boarded a ship heading to Africa and arrived in Dar es Salaam. In
1890, he moved to the south and settled initially in Beira and then in Vila Pery where he involved in the cattle breeding and trading.
In 1892, he started a bakery business with his brother Panagiotis. Other pioneers from Lemnos were Nikolaos and Komnenos Chalamandaris,
Sarantos Lecanidis, Nickolas Kampanis, Kimon Diomataris, Nickolas Vertsonis, Nicholas Trataros, John Miltiades and Dimitrios Verghis.
