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Landowner

Nicolaos Vondiziano

fl. 1827–1878 · Cyprus

Merchant, active 1827–1878. Lived at Ormidia. Parent of Achilleus Vondiziano.

Life and work

  1. 1827
    Came from Cephalonia to Cyprus as the adopted nephew of Antonio Vondiziano, who gave him his estate at Ormideia (Hadjicosti, after Koudounaris 1972, pp. 13-14, 29).

    OrmidiaHadjicosti 2001

  2. 1873–1878
    Owned the two-storey Ormidia house rented first by Luigi Palma di Cesnola (1873) and then by Alessandro Palma di Cesnola, marked on the 1922 Cadastral Survey as 'Cesnola's Summer Residence' (demolished c. 1970).

    OrmidiaStanley-Price 2018Hadjicosti 2001

Connections

4 people
Achilleus VondizianoLuigi Palma di CesnolaAlessandro (Alexander) Pa…Antonio VondizianoNicolaos Vondiziano
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Sources

  1. 1.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2018). “Illicit excavation: the trial of Alessandro Palma di Cesnola in Cyprus in 1878”. The Antiquaries Journal 98, 297-317.
  2. 2.M. Hadjicosti (2001). “Ormideia: tracing Cesnola's footsteps. Archaeological research and finds”. Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction, 53-69.