| Magdalini Pavlidou | |
 Magdalini Pavlidou (aged 107) in May 2023 | |
| Birth: | 28 June 1915 Pontus, Ottoman Empire (present-day Samsun Province, Turkey) |
| Death: | 20 June 2024 Charitomeni, Drama, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Greece |
| Age: | 108 years, 358 days |
| Country: |  TUR GRE
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| Centenarian | |
Magdalini Pavlidou [Greek: Μαγδαληνή Παυλίδου] (28 June 1915 – 20 June 2024) is a Turkish-born Greek centenarian who was one of the last surviving witnesses of the Pontian genocide in 1922. At the time of her death, she was the oldest known living person in Greece.
Biography[]
Magdalini Pavlidou was born in Pontus, Ottoman Empire (present-day Black Sea Region, Samsun Province, Turkey) on 28 June 1915. In 1922, at the age of seven, she moved to Greece due to the genocide. She gave birth to a total of nine children.
She became the oldest known living person in Greece, following the death of 109-year-old Kallistheni Meleonitou on 12 November 2023.
Magdalini Pavlidou died in the village of Charitomeni, Drama, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Greece on 20 June 2024 at the age of 108 years, 358 days. Following her death, then 108-year-old Paressa Orfanidou became the oldest known living person in Greece.
References[]
- Η Γενοκτονία των Ελλήνων του Πόντου μέσα από τα μάτια της υπεραιωνόβιας Μαγδαληνής Παυλίδου OPEN on YouTube, 19 May 2022
- Μαγδαληνή Παυλίδου: Μία από τις τελευταίες μάρτυρες της Γενοκτονίας των Ποντίων Pontos News, 20 May 2022
- Magdalini Pavlidou: 107-year-old Pontian survivor of the Greek Genocide recounts her horrors Greek City Times, 21 May 2022
- Όσα τ' ομμάτια' μ είδαν, και ο νούς-ι-μ 'κι ανασπάλλ Φανή Δημητριάδου on Facebook, 26 May 2023
- Magdalini Pavlidou - 108 World Supercentenarian Forum, 28 June 2023
- Death mention Soula Pavlidou on Facebook, 20 June 2024
| Greece's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (V • E) |
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Ekaterini Zacharopoulos • Anastasia Athanassoulas • Elpida Moschopoulos • Konstantinos Papadamis • Maria Papakyriakou • Panagiota Kraniou • Lambis Kounoupas • Eugenia Vranti • Haido Katsara • Ioanna Proiou-Dimitriadou • Kallistheni Meleonitou • Magdalini Pavlidou • Paressa Orfanidou |