Petros (pelican) Petros (pelican) Petros was a great white pelican. It was the official mascot of the Greek island of Mykonos. In 1958, a wounded pelican was found off the coast of Mykonos by a local fisherman. The pelican was nursed to health and remained on the island supported by locals. It soon adopted the name "Petros", as a joke among locals, as "petro" in Greek means "rock" or "stone", but metaphorically "old and grumpy". Petros was hit and killed by a car in December 1985. Subsequently, three new pelicans took up residence around the main town of Mykonos. One, honorifically, was
Petros Pizanias Greek, French, and English in the journals: "Ta Istorika, The Greek Review of Political Science, Annales-Économies, Sociétés, Civilisation," etc. In 2015 he was nominated Emeritus Professor of History of the Ionian University. Petros Pizanias Petros Th. Pizanias was born in 1947, Athens. His parents were Theodore Pizanias, a tailor and Anastasia Pizanias, a housewife. They originally came from the island of Kalymnos and the city of Piraeus, respectively. He is married to Alice Vaxevanoglou, Dr. of History, researcher in the Academy of Athens and tutor of modern European history at the Hellenic Open University. They have a son, Stefanos Pizanias,