Greek-born oldest woman in Czech Republic dies at 109

The oldest woman in the Czech Republic, Greek-born Evangelia Čarasová, died on Friday at the age of 109. She had been living in Osoblažsko in the very east of the country for over six decades. Born in February 1904, she was one of over 10,000 Greeks who were admitted to Czechoslovakia after fleeing the civil war in Greece at the end of the 1940s. Though she understood Czech, she only spoke Greek.

Author: Ian Willoughby