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Glafkos Alithersis

Died in 1965

Michalis Chatzidimitriou, who wrote under the name Glafkos Alithersis, was born in Limassol in 1897. Still a secondary-school pupil, he enlisted in 1913 as a volunteer in the Greek army during the Balkan Wars, then studied physical education in Athens. He then lived most of his life in Alexandria, as a gymnastics teacher in the schools of the Greek community, and returned to Cyprus in 1963. He died in Limassol on 30 November 1965 and was buried at the State's expense.

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