The National Bank of Greece and the international dimension of the Greek refugee crisis, 1917-1928
This programme of study includes personal research into the Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece (NBG) in Athens and the Bank of England in London. This part of the NBG's archives offers a unique opportunity for any researcher to be the first to examine evidence about bank policy during the era of the refugee crisis (1917-28) in Greece. There is plenty of material that refers to loans given by the NBG to Greek refugees during this period, which hitherto has not been examined. The archive of the Bank of England contains information about the conditions and terms of the two large external loans for refugee resettlement made in 1924 and 1928. They also include private and confidential documents among Greek and British politicians and bankers of this period. After 1922, approximately 1,200,000 refugees came to Greece from Asia Minor. This refugee influx is well-known in the Greek historiography, as the political, social and settlement features of the Asia Minor Catastrophe have been extensively analysed by historians. The economic features though, remain unexamined. Unexamined is also, the inception of the refugee crisis in Greece in 1918, when refugees from Bulgaria and Romania who had already settled
Rizou, Maria
The National Bank of Greece and the international dimension of the Greek refugee crisis, 1917-1928. This programme of study includes personal research into the Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece (NBG) in Athens and the Bank of England in London. This part of the NBG's archives offers a unique opportunity for any researcher to be the first to examine evidence about bank policy during the era of the refugee crisis (1917-28) in Greece. There is plenty of material that refers to loans given by the NBG to Greek refugees during this period, which hitherto has not been examined. The archive of the Bank of England contains information about the conditions and terms of the two large external loans for refugee resettlement made in 1924 and 1928. They also include private and confidential documents among Greek and British politicians and bankers of this period. After 1922, approximately 1,200,000 refugees came to Greece from Asia Minor. This refugee influx is well-known in the Greek historiography, as the political, social and settlement features of the Asia Minor Catastrophe have been extensively analysed by historians. The economic features though, remain unexamined. Unexamined is also, the inception of the refugee crisis in Greece in 1918, when refugees from Bulgaria and Romania who had already settled
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