Abyssinia Square
Small plaza turned Sunday antiques bazaar, cobblestones crowded with furniture, vinyl and curios since nineteen twelve.
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This guide to Abyssinia Square in Athens digs into a naming puzzle nobody among the Sunday stallholders can settle. It traces the square's earlier life as Manganaria, its reshaping around 1860, and the two rival stories behind the name Abyssinia, one pointing to Ethiopian residents on nearby streets, the other to Ethiopia's young regent and his help for Greek refugees arriving from Asia Minor in 1922. You'll also hear about a family of Jewish antique traders from Smyrna who gave the same bazaar a second name, Yusurum, that stuck alongside the first.
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