Theophrastos Georgiadis
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Theophrastos Georgiadis (Greek: Θεόφραστος Γεωργιάδης, 1885-1973) was a Greek author and teacher. His work about the once prosperous urban center of Moscopole, today a small mountain village in southeastern Albania, is considered of great value since it concerns the period before the town's destruction in 1916.[1]
Two of the five surviving churches in Moscopole described by Georgiadis before the 1916 destruction: Church of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel (left), Church of the Holy Virgin (right).
Georgiadis was born in Moscopole, modern Albania, then part of the Ottoman Empire. He was a teacher and director in the local Greek school until 1916.[2] When Moscopole was ravaged by irregular bands during World War I, and most of its cultural buildings were destroyed, he was compelled to leave.[3]