{"id":3354,"date":"2018-09-10T09:31:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T06:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kyreniamunicipality.com\/?page_id=3354"},"modified":"2025-02-24T10:29:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T08:29:22","slug":"background-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kyreniamunicipality.com\/en\/the-municipality\/mayor\/background-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Background Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='slider_back1'  class='avia-section av-1fo2i-0a8d78e4e730c84cd28dfd3d6cb3e95c main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-parallax av-minimum-height av-minimum-height-custom av-height-custom  container_wrap sidebar_left'   data-av_minimum_height_px='130'><div class='container av-section-cont-open' style='height:130px'><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-small units'><div class='post-entry 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srcset=\"https:\/\/kyreniamunicipality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC09842-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kyreniamunicipality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC09842-1-1030x580.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/kyreniamunicipality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC09842-1-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kyreniamunicipality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC09842-1-705x397.jpg 705w, https:\/\/kyreniamunicipality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC09842-1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Joseph Violaris<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mayor of Kyrenia<\/p>\n<p>He was born in Kyrenia in 1956.<\/p>\n<p>His parents, Miltiadis Violaris and Eleni Violaris, come from the family of the Metropolitan of Kyrenia and later Archbishop, Makarios II.<\/p>\n<p>He attended the Elementary School and then the High School of our city, from where he graduated in 1974.<\/p>\n<p>After serving in the National Guard, where he served as a reserve second lieutenant of Communications, he studied at the Dental School of the University of Athens, from which he graduated in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1982 he maintains a private dental practice in Nicosia, which was renamed in 2006 to &#8220;Implant Dentistry Centre at Nicosia&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 1996 he was trained at Faulkner Hospital in Boston, USA and in 2006 at the American Academy of Implant Dentistry in implantology.<\/p>\n<p>He served for many years as President of the Nicosia \u2013 Kyrenia Dental Association, Vice-President of the Pancyprian Dental Association and President of the Cyprus Dentists Disciplinary Council.<\/p>\n<p>From 2011 to 2021 he served as a volunteer dentist in a team of volunteer doctors of the Pancyprian Organization Against the Scourge of Hunger in various African countries such as Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Madagascar.<\/p>\n<p>He is married to Dentist Anastasia Pegiazi, from Kazafani, Kyrenia and has three children, Miltiadis, Lawyer, Morfo, Chartered Accountant and Eleni, 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