Theodoros Belitsos

Theodoros Grig. Belitsos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Γρηγ. Μπελίτσος, born 1957 in Athens, Greece) is a writer who focuses on history and folklore. He currently lives in suburban Nea Smyrni.

Biography

Theodoros Belitsos was educated at the Nea Smyrni Evangelic School and studied chemistry at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In 1984 he became a teacher at Moudros Secondary School on Lemnos and then in Piraeus in 1987 and at the Nea Smyrni Homereion Girl's School in 1989.

From 1989, he began to write articles in periodicals and newspapers. He received the reprinting of the first study of the school and in 1994 the first book about Lemnos. He wrote about the villages of Outer Mani where his ascendents were from.

He was awarded the Commended of the Historic Dictionary by the Athens Academy for the work: "The material linguistic countil in Lemnos". He was also awarded by the Lemnian Council League of Athens. He was a study of the Laconian Council Company and Imbros (Imroz) and Tenedos (Tenedoz) Study Council. He is married and has three children.

Works

*On Lemnos:
**"Lemnos and the surrounding villages (Historic sources)", 1994 & 1997
**"Argyrios Moschidis - Lemnos historian and his era" 1996
**"The communal schools in Lemnos" 1997
**"The liberation of Lemnos and two historic naval battles", 1997 and 2000
**"Lemnos in the monder Greek literature and art", 1998
**"Lemnian studies I", 1998
**"Lemnian studies II", 1999
**"Material linguistic council from Lemnos - Council with studies on Lemnian linguistic idioms", 1999
**"Kaminia, Lemnos (History-Topography-Customs-Families)", 2004
**"Participation in a volume council: Temples and chapels in Lemnos", 1999

*Other areas:
**"Schools in Greek Smyrna in the early 20th century", 1993
**"From Smyrna to Nea Smyrni, Short Historic Chronicle of Our City", 1997 & 2003
**"Altomira in Outer Mani (History-Families-Toponyms), 1999
**"Mantinies in Mani in 1700 - Economy, demographics and given names", 2002
**"A decision on the magistrate's Kambos (1840)", 2002
**"The "Marriage Book" of Megali Mantineia and Avia (a period from 1869-1891)", 2006