METAXOURGEION THE ATHENS SILKMILL

The preset volume of articles attempts to approach the history of the Athes silkmill from various agles. It examies the history of the actual buildig complex, its gradual formatio, its differet uses ad its effects o the physiogomy of the eighborhood amed after it ? Metaxourgeio; the history of the "Societe Sericicole de la Grece" i a effort to show, as far as the available material permits, the role of the idigeous ad exogeous parameters i determiig its developmet; the history of the Durutti family, which follows a course typical of the Greek ecoomic diaspora i the late Ottoma Empire, that starts from primary ecoomic activities i the moutai regios of Turkish-occupied Greece.