Konstantinos Varouxis

Konstantinos Varouxis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Βαρουξής) was a Greek journalist and a publisher.

Varouxis was born in Pyrgos and was descended from a family of journalists. The Varouxises was a key of the family Spilotopoulos from Dimitsana in which they participated the Greek War of Independence of 1921. In 1892, he ran the weekly paper "Avgi". Varouxis was exiled in Lefkada in 1895 because he thought which the article of "Vasilevs" ("King"). He stood trial as a criminal in the island and was innocent, in the same year he ceased publishing of Avgis and from 1910 started to publish "Ileia" newspaper. It ended its publishing in 1915 in which it later becam from his large absence in 1928. He stopped entirely in 1931.

References

*Vyronas Davos "Sto Pyrgo kai stin Ileia tou 1821-1930 ("Στον Πύργο και στην Ηλεία του 1821-1930," = "In Pyrgos And In Ilia From 1821-1930"), Athens 1996
*"Patris", Pyrgos 2003
*Vyron Davos "Newspapers Of Ilia", in "Patris", Pyrgos, 2003