CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS IN AN OTTOMAN CITY: THE FORMATION OF THE SOCIETY OF EARLY OTTOMAN THESSALONIKI
CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS IN AN OTTOMAN CITY: THE FORMATION OF THE SOCIETY OF EARLY OTTOMAN THESSALONIKI
Author(s): Phokion KotzageorgisSubject(s): History, Sociology, Comparative history, Economic history, Local History / Microhistory, Social history, Middle Ages, Modern Age, Special Historiographies:, Social development, Demography and human biology, Rural and urban sociology, Economic development, 15th Century, 16th Century, The Ottoman Empire, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Институт за балканистика с Център по тракология - Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Thessaloniki; Tahrir Defteri; Early Ottoman City; Urban Development; Population
Summary/Abstract: Thessaloniki was the biggest city conquered by the Ottomans before Istanbul. Furthermore, it was conquered by force. Thus, this city is a good example for researchers to understand how the Ottoman state transformed a Byzantine metropolis into an Ottoman one, starting from a zero point – in terms of the population – in 1430. This paper, based on a meticulous analysis of the three extant Ottoman tax registers of the first Ottoman century and a variety of other sources, tries to discern the urban and demographic development until ca. 1530, when the Ottomanization process had been accomplished and Thessaloniki became an Ottoman metropolis, having, together with Edirne, the highest population in the Balkans.
Journal: Études balkaniques
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 423-456
- Page Count: 34
- Language: English
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