Family
Neoklis Kyriazis was born in 1877 in Nicosia. His father was George Kyriazis, one of five Greek brothers from Thessaly, who founded the cigarette empire Kyriazi Freres. His mother was Zafiro Odyssea Chasapoglou great granddaughter of Tselepis Hadji-Petrakis Kytherios (1770-1830), one of the richest landowners in Cyprus. Neoklis’ maternal grandmother, Maritsa Tano, was a descendant of the Tano family, belonging to the Italian nobility. He married Maria Pieridi (1871-1953), herself a descendant of another Italian nobility family (Cariddi).
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