Surname/tag: Poggas

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Contents 1 Welcome to the Poggas Name Study 2 Poggas Name Origin 3 Poggas Meanings 4 Tracing the Past 4.1 1890 - 1910 4.2 1910 - 1930 4.3 1930 - 1960 4.4 1960 - 1999 5 Sources

Welcome to the Poggas Name Study

First, I'd like to tell you that my DNA results connected me to a cousin which led me to a Greek immigrant with the surname Poggas. Since I am adopted, I do not have sources of my own biological father. The interesting part of this story is that my father was also adopted. I do know that he was born in Alaska. The DNA connection I've made is through a second cousin, so it's pretty obvious that there is solid evidence that I'm descended from this family line. The hope is that other researchers like you will join this study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying the name Poggas.

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Poggas Name Origin

Πογγας The Poggas surname seems to be rare and is most likely from Greece.

Surname varients: Poggas / Pogas / Poggis / Pogga

Places found:

• Greece; Specifically: Vília, Evia, Samos Island, Romesi
• United States; Specifically: Alaska, Kentucky, Colorado, Missouri, Illinois

Poggas Meanings

When you're just learning about a name it begins to absorb your thoughts and your research may lead you to something more compelling. I've abbreviated another take on the meaning of Poggas.

Poggas defined: ^[1]

• Poggas meaning is to catch or take something from.
• The definition of a poggas is a word that expresses action or a state of being.

Poggas meaning in numerology: ^[2]

In numerology, the name Poggas has the birth path 11 and it's meaning is connected to awakening, vitality, knowledge and inspiration. These persons are known to posses strong core beliefs like intuition, tenacity and ideals worth striving towards. People of Poggas will need to learn to collaborate actively, while at the same time never becoming too submissive, inert, undecided or emotional in an excessive manner. Inner listening skills will need to be properly developed.

Poggas individuals often get a real inspirational high when the given task complements their intelligence. It's common that they are self-taught and the knowledge is more innate than bookish or school taught. Poggas individuals know how to make decisions and have the flair to make money, but are not focused by the frenzied accumulation of it. Instead they like to give and share.

Tracing the Past

If we are to assume that the surname Poggas originated in Greece, let's take a look at a timeline of where and why they immigrated or migrated. The earliest Poggas I've found coming to America is from the late 1800's so we'll begin our peek into Greek history there. As we discover more about the Poggas name, we'll venture further back in time.

1890 - 1910

Greece had entered a time of economic despair. The Greek government taxed the peasants ten to forty percent, of their income while the small business owners were only taxed five percent, and the elite were taxed nothing.

In hopes of making money, because the French had just undergone a blight that wiped out their current farms, Greek farmers replaced their olive farms with currents. However, the Greeks suffered a market crash because they had too many currents and not enough buyers when the French were able to grow currents again.

Greek youths were sent to America solely for economic gains mainly due to their sense of tradition. The Greek Dowry system allocated for arranged marriage in which the groom was to be given plots of land or money. They were expected to work hard in America and then return to Greece. Close relations were maintained with Greece especially connected to the national and political issues at home. Three quarters of these travelers settled permanently in America. They engaged in various forms of employment including street vendors, shop owners and more manual jobs such as coalmines or on the railroads. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

1910 - 1930

When the Balkan Wars between Greece and Turkey erupted in 1912 forty-five thousand Greek American immigrants returned home to fight on behalf of Greece. After the war, however, the vast majority of these young men abandoned their intentions to invest in Greek land and instead returned to America. This shift in intentions initiated the immigration of Greek women who brought with them Greek cultural and social traditions and began to help to establish Greek Communities, Greek Orthodox Churches, and family life in America.

Since 1914, Greece (Hellenic Republic) has mandatory military service (conscription) of 9 months for men between the ages of 16 and 45. So, during World War I, approximately seventy thousand Greeks fought on behalf of the United States. These immigrants continued to feel strong political allegiances to Greece and organized several attempts to affect American foreign policy in Greece's favor.

In Soviet Russian after the October Revolution of 1917, Greeks engaged in trade or other occupations that marked them as class enemies of the Bolshevik government and were exposed to a hostile attitudes. This was exacerbated due to the participation of a regiment from Greece, numbering 24,000 troops, in Crimea among the forces intervening on the White Russian side in the Civil War of 1919. About 50,000 Greeks emigrated between 1919 and 1924.

Meanwhile in Turkey, the government of the Ottoman Empire instigated a violent campaign against the Greek population. The campaign included massacres, forced deportations involving death marches, and summary expulsions. The Greco-Turkish War began in 1919 and continued until the Great Fire of Smyrna in 1922, atrocities perpetrated by both the Hellenic and Turkish armies. At the end of the war, Greeks remaining in Turkey were transferred to Greece. The criteria for the population exchange was not exclusively confined to ethnicity or mother language, but on religion as well.

The 1920s marked the start of a new age for Hellenism in America. The American government curtailed immigration policy and quotas, commencing an extensive campaign to 'Americanize' the immigrants and assimilate the millions of immigrants who had arrived in the previous two decades, particularly those from Eastern and Southeastern Europe. ^{[6] [7] [8] [9] [10]}

1930 - 1960

Athenian society was in a state of confusion and the misery felt across broad areas of society. However, the social life of the upper social classes continued undisturbed. Urban centers became the concentrated meeting points of many population classes from different backgrounds. The city became a network of communication through which the messages of modernity spread to the whole of Greek society.

The involvement of Greece in the Second World War began when the Greek-Italian War started 28 October 1940. Greek-Americans mobilized in support of Greece, and Greeks were viewed in a particularly positive light by American popular opinion. Greece was liberated in October 1944, it was immediately succeeded by the impasse of domestic political conflicts. By the end of the war the fate of the Dodecanese islands were decided and they were conceded to Greece (1947 by the Treaty of Paris). This was the last territorial annexation in the long process of establishing the modern Greek state.

The 1950s saw the coming of age of the second generation of Greek-Americans, and with it social improvement for them and further integration of the Greek dispersion into American society from their homeland. ^{[11] [12]}

1960 - 1999

The beginning of the 1960s saw the so-called "revival of ethnicity," which entailed the widespread dissemination and acknowledgement of the cultural roots and traditions of each ethnic community, including the Greek-Americans. At the same time, the climate of radicalism and reflection in America at that time helped the new generation of Greeks abroad, and in particular women, break free of traditional, patriarchal family structures within the Greek-American family.

By 1964, in Turkey, the Greek-Turkish Treaty of Friendship was renounced and over a thousand of Greeks were expelled. Another 10,000 by September when Turkey discontinued renewing residence permits and by October t was reported that 30,000 Turkish nationals of Greek descent had left permanently. The only thing that has changed in Turkey from the previous years and decades is that there are now few Greeks left in Constantinople, Imbros, and Tenedos.

In 1965 the number of Greek immigrants began to increase, as a result of the 1965 Immigration Act which ended the national-quota system and gave preference to family members wishing to be reunited with those already in America. Between 1965 and 1975 alone, more than 142,000 people came to the United States from Greece. The turn towards Hellenism became all the stronger with the arrival of new immigrants after World War II while the reputation acquired by Greeks in America strengthened the sense of pride in their Greek roots. Immigration flows increased during this period leading to the establishment of 'Greek town' in the Astoria area of New York.

In Greece, the international oil crisis 1973 led to a general increase of goods and a two-figure inflation. High recession affected sectors of activity, such as building and construction, while emigrant and foreign travel exchange had been temporarily reduced. In 1974, the Monarchy was formally abolished. The Tatoi Palace and 10,000 acre estate was seized by the republic following the 1974 referendum.

In the United States, the 1980s can be characterized as the start of a return to historical memory, a review of the path taken by Greeks in America.

The stability and economic prosperity of Greece had grown and Greece joined the European Union in 1981. New infrastructure, funds from the EU and growing revenues from tourism, shipping services, light industry and the telecommunications industry have brought Greeks an unprecedented standard of living and this continued through the end of the millennium. ^{[13] [14] [15] [16]}

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