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Immigration

The people of Doriza started immigrating at the end of the 19th century. Their destination was America. The first who left spent their lives constructing railways in the USA. As it happened to most of the mountainous regions o Greece, Doriza also was gradually deprived of its active male dynamic in the 20th century because the Second World War and the Civil War did not allow the village to prosper.

Immigration

Doriza sees its children immigrating to the USA, Australia, and Africa until 1960.Following the fall of the dictatorship in 1975, immigration virtually stops. This is the time the younger generation begins to make its home in the city of Tripolis and this continues till our days.

Immigration to the USA creates communities in Chicago and New York. The poor framers from Doriza who disembarked at Ellis Island in the entrance of the New York harbor, became blue-collar workers, clerks, businessmen. They acquired an American passport and the right to vote in their adopted new home-country. But they did not forget their village. They visited it occasionally, they supported their families, repaired their homes, they sent money for the needs of the community. The visitor to Doriza can see marble sings with the names of immigrants who donated large sums for the restoration, preservation and the creation of the Elementary School which today serves as Cultural Center, the Aqueduct and Central Fountain which supplies with water every household, the Church and the small Chapels surrounding the village.

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