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Dear
Friends
I Theodore Kaltsas is the responsible coordinator,
editor and owner of this web page.
Finally, my dream came true! A web page for the village
I was born in. The place where I lived the fewest years
of my life. The village, which I love and continue to
cherish! Perista. In the beginning it was a dream, which
became an idea, and finally a reality.
This page is becoming a reality by the pride and the effort
from people who show their true love and enthusiasm to
promote our village PERISTA on the web
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I
want to extent my warmest heartfelt thanks to everyone
that took part in this dream come true. I thank them for
their great interest and their ideas. Everyone that was
asked for his or her involvement did so without a second
thought.
I would like to express my deepest
Gratitute to the great Historian, Poet, Folklore writer
and a member of the Greek judiciary system , a native
son of Perista, Athanasios N. Papathanasopoulos for
his book " PERISTA NAFPAKTIAS-
LAOGRAFIKA" that gave me
the most valuable information and the initiative for the
creation of these pages. |
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Cordially
thank the secretary of Perista's Association in America
" AGIOS
ATHANASIOS" Thanasi
G.Papathanasopoulos for
his valuable information from the society's archives.
Special Thanks to my brother Yiannis
Kaltsas
who helped make the corrections and custody of this
text and indications.
I would like to thank our friend and colleague from
New York Kosta Kaganis
for his rich photographic materials he gave for us to
use on our web pages.
I would like to acknowledge the valuable contributions
from all the above people and I will like to express
my "THANKS" and congratulations to them. The
contribution of Perista's Youth is very
touching, the concern to their roots |
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House I was born in |
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is a great gift from God.
May
Agios Athanasios be with them all the way to show light
on their footsteps. All of them are not born in Perista,
they are not even born in Greece
Their Peristian Flame and Roumeli soul talks straight
to our hearts. For all of us who were born in Perista
this touches our emotions in a very special way.
The primary reason of this web page is to let more people,
Hellenes and friends of Hellas learn about our village
PERISTA but also to bring back to all of us who were born
there the freshness, the imperious glance of nature, the
little houses on the mountain, the springs and the beautiful
skies back to our memories. We want to be able to walk
once again the streets and alleys of our little village
with the help of this web page.
Another reason is for the next generations to learn their
roots, be active and contribute back to our Society and
Village whenever there is a need.
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| The
house after re-modeling |
In
this
page
anyone can post his/her message about Perista without
any cost. Text, pictures or whatever has to do with Perista
is Welcome.
Dear friends and patriots, these web pages took a lot
of hard work and great effort, but it was done with plenty
of love and passion within everyone that was involved
in making this possible.
My wish to all of you is that you enjoy our hard work
and hope you find it of great interest.
This
page is under construction, and is curently being updated.
Please be patient.
Any ideas and comments for creating a better format of
this web page is welcome.
I dedicate these pages in memory of my mother
Anna Kaltsas who
taught me to love, appreciate and respect. I contributed
to our village Perista and is not looking to make any
money.
This is also dedicated to the elderly
of Perista and especially to my teacher Aristoteli
Antoniou from Karditsa that I would never forget
as long as I live. |
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from my heart,
Theodore Kaltsas.
(Manager, coordinator, author and right hold of the
website)
WWW.perista.net
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