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Ioannis Karagiorgas

Falling numbers: Thymaina's plunging population shows Greece's demographic decline

"Let's go to war!" shouted six-year-old Giorgos at his older cousin, Minas, as the two chased each other with claw-like geranium stalks around the schoolyard on the tiny Greek island of Thymaina.

The two boys are the last primary school children on the far-flung eastern Aegean island, 40 kilometres from the Turkish coast.

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