Metin Vidinli, the owner of the fish-shop at the Gelibolu port
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Title
Metin Vidinli, the owner of the fish-shop at the Gelibolu port
Description
Gallipoli / Gelibolu photo 118. His family came from Vidin, the river-port on the Danube (NW Bulgaria, near the Bulgarian-Serbian frontier and a mile away from the Rumanian shore). The Balkan’s refugee history is a long drama of the past century. The Vidinlis were accustomed with the life of their vivid Danubean port; they knew the art of fishing; but they had never seen the see. And the Marmara is quite a different environment.
Nevertheless they started again their life as fishermen, they established a well-known shop in the Fish Market and they kept the memory of their frozen motherland in the family name: Vidinli means ‘someone who came from Vidin’. The coming generations will remember.
Nevertheless they started again their life as fishermen, they established a well-known shop in the Fish Market and they kept the memory of their frozen motherland in the family name: Vidinli means ‘someone who came from Vidin’. The coming generations will remember.
Date taken
1/5/2012
Original
Yes
Source
APAN Archive
© APAN
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Color
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Key words
Balkans.
Danube, Lower Danube.
Eastern Thrace / European Turkey.
Fish market.
Gallipoli / Gelibolu.
Refugees.
Thracian peninsula / Gallipoli peninsula.