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-//Kilimi// was a self-managed social space in Limassol, which operated for a short period in the early 1980s. It is considered as the first anarchist social space in Cyprus, and the first appearance of the anarchist milieu in Limassol.
+//Kilimi// (lit. //Kilim//) was a self-managed social space in Limassol, which operated for a short period in the early 1980s. It is considered as the first anarchist social space in Cyprus, and the first appearance of the anarchist milieu in Limassol.
 ===== Space Identity =====
-<blockquote>Already in Limassol the "space" had undergone a radical transformation from leftism to a diffused anti-authoritarian-alternative mentality, from the early 1980s in a short-lived but decisive series of gatherings in a gallery called the kilimi...(([[el:magazines:traino:no_11:anexartisia|Γενιές Ανεξαρτησίας - The Post-colonial Human]], Magazine Train in the City, Issue 11, 1994, p. 38-45.))
+<blockquote>Already in Limassol the "space" had undergone a radical transformation from leftism to a diffused anti-authoritarian-alternative mentality, from the early 1980s in a short-lived but decisive series of gatherings in a gallery called kilimi...(([[en:magazines:traino:no_11:anexartisia|Independence Generations - The Post-colonial Human]], Magazine Train in the City, Issue 11, 1994, p. 38-45.))
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 The story of [[en:groups:xrisallida|Chrysallida]] begins in the summer of
-'81, a few meters up the road, in an old house,
+'81, a few meters up, on the same street, in an old,
-big house on the north corner of Agios Andreas,
+large house on the northern corner of Agios Andreas Street,
 which was rented by some Limassol painters and
-used its large rooms as studios.
+used its large rooms as a studio.
-When at some stage some of them left, the
+When at some point some left,
-the others responded positively to the proposal of a group of people
+the rest responded positively to a group's proposal
-to use two of the rooms for their own use.
+to be given two of the rooms to use as a meeting place. Slowly,
-to use as a meeting place. Little by little the
+the circle grew and became a meeting point for several
-circle grew and became a meeting point for several
+people, from different areas, who in the end
-people from different places who in the end
+became an even larger group. So the summer ends and almost everyone leaves for studies. The next episode finds many in Lyon, France, where another hangout is created, another large group, in a house that for a while functions as a kind of commune. It is there that the one and only issue of the magazine [[en:magazines:mavrespinelies|'Mavres Pinelies']] (Black Brushstrokes) is printed in photocopies and circulated from hand to hand, which is important, not so much for its content, but for the fact that it is the first, as far as we know, publication of the Cypriot anarchist-autonomous milieu, in the sense that, although the entire effort was made abroad, it was made mainly by Cypriots.(([[https://archive.org/details/entropia15|Entropia Magazine, Issue 15, July 2019, p.22]]))</blockquote>
-became an even bigger group. So the summer is coming to an end and almost the whole
-people leave to study. The next episode
-finds a lot of people in Lyon, France, where
-another sort of hangout is created, a
-another big group, in a house that for some reason
-for a while, a kind of commune. It is there that is photocopied and circulated by hand
-the one and only issue of the magazine
-[[en:magazines:mavrespinelies|'Mavres Pinelies']] (Black Brushstrokes), which is important, not so
-for its content, but for the fact that it is the
-the first, to our knowledge, publication of the Cypriot
-anarchist-autonomous space, in the sense that, despite the fact that, as far as we know
-the whole effort was made abroad, it was made primarily by Cypriots
-(([[el:magazines:entropia:no_15|Entropia magazine, Issue 15, July 2019, p.22]]))</blockquote>