| Athena Manoli | |
| Birth: | 3 October 1886? Paphos area, Ayia Varvara (present-day Cyprus) |
| Death: | fl.21 November 1999 Kouklia, Cyprus |
| Age: | 113 years, 49+ days? |
| Country: |  CYP
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| Longevity claimant | |
Athena Manoli (3 October 1886? – fl.21 November 1999) was a Cypriot supercentenarian claimant whose age is curently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). If her age is true, she would be the oldest Cypriot ever.
Biography[]
Manoli claimed that she was born in Paphos area in the then Greek and Turkish Cypriot mixed village of Ayia Varvara on 3 October 1886. Her family moved to Kouklia village, also in Paphos, when she was 10 where she began work as a farm labourer and later as a reaper in Mesaoria. She was married at 18 and has had five children (three of whom are now dead), 16 grandchildren, 34 great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren.
Her husband died in 1940 and Manoli began to work at a Vassilia monastery in return for food and shelter for her and her three orphaned grandchildren.
Following the Turkish invasion, Manoli returned to Kouklia, where she still lives as of 1999 in a Turkish Cypriot-owned house with one of her children and their family. In 1999 she was reported as almost totally deaf and confined to her bed. She was taken care of by her daughter Maria and the Welfare and Social Services Department.
Manoli was last confirmed alive on 21 November 1999 at the claimed age of 113 years, 49 days. If her age is true, she was at this time the fifth-oldest living person in the world behind Sarah Knauss, Eva Moriss, Marie Bremont and Luce Maced.
References[]
- Millennium Manoli- the oldest citizen of Cyprus Cyprus Mail, 21 November 1999