George Zorbas

George Zorbas
Γεώργιoς Ζορμπάς
The grave of Zorbas in Skopje
Born
Georgios Zorbas

1865
Katafygio, Ottoman Empire (now Pieria, Greece)
DiedSeptember 16, 1941(1941-09-16) (aged 75–76)
Skopie, Kingdom of Bulgaria
(present-day North Macedonia)
OccupationMiner

Georgios Zorbas (Greek: Γεώργιoς Ζορμπάς; 1865 – September 16, 1941) was a Greek miner upon whom Nikos Kazantzakis based Alexis Zorbas, the protagonist of his 1946 novel Zorba the Greek.

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