Meaning of Lesvian | Babel Free

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An inhabitant or a resident of Lesvos (Lesbos).

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“Mytilini, or Lesvos, as it is often called, is a large Greek lisland in a gulf formed by the Turkish coast in the northern corner of the Aegean Sea. Local residents refer to themselves as "Lesvians".”

“Among the Lesvians, Hjalmar Dahm and Georgios Sitaras offered invaluable logistical assistance and field help.”

“The move won us the sympathy and devotion of the Lesvians, especially the Mytilinians.”

“Dean, whose maternal grandparents migrated in the early twentieth century from the island of Lesvos to Lynn, Massachusetts, an industrial city north of Boston with a large population of Anatolian Greeks, plays the santouri, the trapezoidal hammered dulcimer that Lesvians consider the instrument most emblematic of their island's traditional music.”

“Hospitable Lesvians and refugees with smiling eyes, with longing, with hope, optimism, and desire to show us a piece of home.”

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