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Historein, 2023

Open access at: https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/historein/issue/current

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The book's point of departure is that geography is not obvious, and that its significance changes... more The book's point of departure is that geography is not obvious, and that its significance changes in time, space, and geopolitical setting. Covering the whole of the Ottoman period of Cypriot history (1571-1878), it focuses on the age of revolutions and the decades between 1760 and 1840. The reflection of this global historical process ushered radical shifts in the relationship between people with space, as well as inter- and intra-communal relations. The book's approach is situated at the intersection of environmental, economic, social, and intellectual history, shifting the scale of observation between the local, Ottoman, Mediterranean, and global level. Its overall objective is to shed light upon the historical processes that lead to the ethno-religious conflict of the troubled twentieth century on the island.

"This study offers two important novelties: it situates Cyprus, a relatively quiet Ottoman province, in the age of revolutions, while it systematically employs the opportunities offered by the use of Geographic Information Systems for the purposes of historical analysis to study the Cypriot economy and society during a period of deep transformations. The book can function as a paradigm for the acculturation of researchers with these new analytical tools and for the inoculation of current modes of inquiry in global history in Greek and Cypriot historiography"
Socrates D. Petmezas, Professor of Modern Economic and Social History, University of Crete/Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas.

"Antonis Hadjikyriacou composed a history book in which he combines, with an audacious and original method, and a smooth and comprehensible language, a theoretical and historiographical problematique with the use of digital tools in archival research. This, however, is not a book that only concerns those interested in the history of Cyprus, as the conceptual axes of the Mediterranean, insularity, space, and the age of revolutions, which cross-section the book, and the author's overall methodological approach, render this a text that pushes the reader to contemplate on and reconsider broader historical and historiographical issues.

Antonis Anastasopoulos, Associate Professor of Ottoman History, University of Crete/Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Mediterranean
Chapter 2: People and the Environment
Chapter 3: Communities
Chapter 4: Space
Conclusion
Appendix I: An overview of the period 1760-1840
Appendix II: Samples of entries from the surveys

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.issue-1

POLITICAL THOUGHT AND PRACTICE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRΕ Halcyon days in Crete IX, 2019

Contrary to the traditional image of a stagnating, conservative state, innovation and reform seem... more Contrary to the traditional image of a stagnating, conservative state, innovation and reform seem to have been constant features of Ottoman administration throughout the empire’s long history. As the relevant treatises by Ottoman administrators and intellectuals reveal, reform and change became contested matters especially from the second half of the sixteenth century onwards: some authors felt the need for reform and advocated for it; others perceived changes as a challenge to the traditional order and suggested a return to what was considered the ‘Golden Age’ of the Empire. Eventually, in the grand narrative of Ottoman history, it is the Tanzimat which represents the climax of the process of transformation of the Empire. Even though it is often attributed to the influence (and pressure) of Western Europe, recent studies emphasise the internal dynamics of Ottoman society and administration rather than external factors, treating the developments of the seventeenth and the eighteenth century as a course towards modernity.

This volume aims to explore Ottoman political thought and seeks answers to questions such as those: Did Ottoman political thinkers precede policy-makers in proposing reform, or did political writers feel surpassed by developments with which they did not agree? What was the relation of religion-oriented ideological currents with like-minded reforms in the fiscal and landholding systems? What was the relation between European (and/or Iranian) thought and Ottoman political developments? Was there innovative political thinking that led to the radical reforms of the Tanzimat era?

Moreover, the volume seeks to investigate the relation of political ideas to the political praxis of their time: i.e. to examine the nature of political power in the various stages of the Empire, the developments that led particular groups to advocate specific reforms, the power networks at the administrative and political levels, the reception of political reform in Istanbul and the provinces, the participation of various political actors in state policy-making and its legitimisation, and so forth.

Islands of the Ottoman Empire, (Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2018), 2018

Reprint of the special issue of Princeton Papers, 18 (2017) entitled Insularity in the Ottoman Wo... more Reprint of the special issue of Princeton Papers, 18 (2017) entitled Insularity in the Ottoman World.

Islands have no single obvious attribute, geographic or otherwise. Insularity, then, should not be taken literally and imply isolation; rather it is about what it means to be an island. This volume employs this concept analytically to study islands as a constituent part of the Ottoman world. Drawing attention to the interplay between the material and the mental, it explores how historical actors experience, imagine, and project their engagements with, and within, the spatial setting of islands.

Islands are most commonly conceptualized as oscillating between connectivity and isolation. Contributions to this volume transcend this dichotomy by enquiring into alternative ways to understand insular space. Divided in three parts, the volume explores various historiographical conceptualizations of islands; the manifestations of violence and law in terraqueous spaces; and different ways in which the state has historically tried to regulate insular space.

Table of contents:

Antonis Hadjikyriacou, "Envisioning Insularity in the Ottoman World"

PART I: CONCEPTUALIZING INSULARITY

Spyros Asdrachas, "Observations on Insularity in the Greek World"

Eleftheria Zei, "The Historiography of Aegean insularity"

PART II: VIOLENCE AND LAW IN TERRAQUEOUS SPACE

Michael Talbot, "Separating the Waters from the Sea: The Place of Islands in Ottoman Maritime Territoriality during the Eighteenth Century"

Murat Cem Mengüç, "Maritime Warfare in the Aegean and Ionian Islandscapes: Safai’s History of the 1499 Lepanto Expedition"

PART III: REGULATING ISLANDS

Fatma Şimşek, "Blockading an Island: Collective Punishment, Islanders, and the State in the “Largest” Island at the End of the Nineteenth Century"

Kahraman Şakul, "The Ottoman Peloponnese before the Greek Revolution: “A Republic of Ayan, Hakim and Kocabaşı” in “the Sea of Humans and Valley of Castles”"

Islands have no single obvious attribute, geographic or otherwise. Insularity, then, should not b... more Islands have no single obvious attribute, geographic or otherwise. Insularity, then, should not be taken literally and imply isolation; rather it is about what it means to be an island. This volume employs this concept analytically to study islands as a constituent part of the Ottoman world. Drawing attention to the interplay between the material and the mental, it explores how historical actors experience, imagine, and project their engagements with, and within, the spatial setting of islands.

Islands are most commonly conceptualized as oscillating between connectivity and isolation. Contributions to this volume transcend this dichotomy by enquiring into alternative ways to understand insular space. Divided in three parts, the volume explores various historiographical conceptualizations of islands; the manifestations of violence and law in terraqueous spaces; and different ways in which the state has historically tried to regulate insular space.

Table of contents:

Antonis Hadjikyriacou, "Envisioning Insularity in the Ottoman World"

PART I: CONCEPTUALIZING INSULARITY

Spyros Asdrachas †, "Observations on Insularity in the Greek World"

Eleftheria Zei, "The Historiography of Aegean insularity"

PART II: VIOLENCE AND LAW IN TERRAQUEOUS SPACE

Michael Talbot, "Separating the Waters from the Sea: The Place of Islands in Ottoman Maritime Territoriality during the Eighteenth Century"

Murat Cem Mengüç, "Maritime Warfare in the Aegean and Ionian Islandscapes: Safai’s History of the 1499 Lepanto Expedition"

PART III: REGULATING ISLANDS

Fatma Şimşek, "Blockading an Island: Collective Punishment, Islanders, and the State in the “Largest” Island at the End of the Nineteenth Century"

Kahraman Şakul, "The Ottoman Peloponnese before the Greek Revolution: “A Republic of Ayan, Hakim and Kocabaşı” in “the Sea of Humans and Valley of Castles”"

Articles and chapters in edited volumes by Antonis Hadjikyriacou

Confluences Méditerranée, 2024

What would a temporally and spatially macroscopic view of ethno-religious conflict in Cyprus look... more What would a temporally and spatially macroscopic view of ethno-religious conflict in Cyprus look like? It would firstly require an examination of factors not limited to the realm of ideas and culture, as existing approaches do, and incorporate the climatic, environmental, social, and economic dimensions. Secondly, it would necessarily adopt a vision that stretches far beyond the shores of the island to encompass, at the bare minimum, the broader Mediterranean setting. Thirdly, it cannot afford to ignore the global dimension. The recent efflorescence of studies in the history of capitalism provides ample material to reflect on the forms of engagement of Cyprus with this quintessentially global phenomenon.
Synthesising across various narratives of Mediterranean historiography, the present intervention proposes the consideration of six distinct, but overlapping and interconnected, Mediterranean-wide processes and their reflection in the Cypriot locality from the late medieval period to the mid-nineteenth century. By the end of the period under consideration, the combined effect of these processes created a milieu where ethno-religious conflict had accelerated, setting the stage for the much more troublesome and traumatic events of the twentieth century on the island.

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The present study examines some of the revolts and periods of extended turbulence in the Ottoman ... more The present study examines some of the revolts and periods of extended turbulence in the Ottoman Mediterranean during the second half of the eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century to demonstrate that they did not simply constitute premodern phenomena with traditional characteristics, but entailed certain modern elements of novelty. Differentiated from similar phenomena of the sixteenth and the seventeenth century, they functio- ned as a bridge between the early modern and the modern period. The fact allows their inclusion in the global phenomenon of the “age of revolutions” in the Ottoman world and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Where was 1821? Space and Territory in the Greek Revolution. Special Issue of Historein, Vol. 21/1, 2023

Evangelos Papadias, Vasileios Detsis, Antonis Hadjikyriacou, Christoforos Vradis, Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, and Christos Chalkias, "Long-Term Dynamics of Viticultural Landscape in Cyprus: Four Centuries of Expansion, Contraction and Spatial Displacement", Land, 12:1143 (2023), pp. 1-23.

Land, 2023

Viticulture has historically been an important part of the social and economic life in the Medite... more Viticulture has historically been an important part of the social and economic life in the Mediterranean, while wine is reckoned among the oldest documented trades. The aim of the study is to record, evaluate and analyze spatial data from historical sources in order to gain insights into the dynamics of the viticultural landscape from the beginning of the Ottoman period to the present day. The study was based on (a) three historical maps published in 1885, 1942 and 1969, (b) records from historical surveys—two from the Ottoman period (1572 fiscal survey, 1832/33 property survey) and the British agricultural census of 1931, (c) present-day records from the vineyard survey of 2009 carried out by the Republic of Cyprus. In the beginning of the study period the center of viticulture was well established within the area of the southern and eastern slopes of Troodos massif. The vineyards expanded mainly around the same growing area until WW2 when they gradually began to be relocated in southwest direction to lower altitudes. This long-term trajectory of spatial patterns was driven by external demand for the product but also by the interplay of environmental, topographic and cultural factors, as well as by the state’s policy framework which largely reflected long-term Mediterranean-wide patterns.

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Μνήμων, 2021

The article traces the intellectual and political concepts through which individual and collectiv... more The article traces the intellectual and political concepts through which individual and collective historical actors sought to give meaning to their actions and aspirations during the Greek Revolution of 1821. Historiography has amply demonstrated the role of the Enlightenment and modern ideas on statehood and national political organisation in revolutionary developments. At the same time, it has by and large emphasised ruptures in its effort to explain historical change. Understandable though this may be given that the modern Greek state emerged out of a revolution, continuities are rarely, if ever, explored. In seeking to understand the historical change effected by the revolution, we turn our attention at longer-term processes and phenomena that have long been dismissed as ‘traditional’ and ‘backward’ (usually the Ottoman side of the equation), and argue for their equally important role and contribution in the Greek transition to modernity. At the same time, we move away from an east/west or Europe/Asia framework that has long dominated the field to explore the transimperial and transnational context in which the Greek revolution developed as part of the age of revolutions. Dynamic and evolving during a period of change, political concepts and practices reveal a great deal about the ways in which the foundations of the modern Greek state were set.

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Riccardo Bavaj, Konrad Lawson, and Bernhard Struck (eds), Doing Spatial History (London and New York: Routledge), 2021

This chapter explores ways of visualizing economic data from pre-modern fiscal sources that are n... more This chapter explores ways of visualizing economic data from pre-modern fiscal sources that are neither comprehensive nor entirely reliable. It argues that spatial history opens up new vistas for historical analysis both at a conceptual level and at the level of data management and analysis. The case study used in this chapter is the first fiscal survey that the Ottomans conducted upon the conquest of Cyprus. Like any kind of fiscal data, Ottoman state documentation is notoriously limited and partial. To use the assessments of state officials to reconstruct trends and patterns in the economy requires a sustained consideration of the reliability of the data available. The chapter employs geographic information systems (GIS) methods, and uses an inverse distance weighted (IDW) interpolation to visualize economic trends and patterns in the face of the imperfections of the data.

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Proceedings of the International Cartographic Association, 3, 2021

The paper presents the preliminary results of an ongoing project that combines historical cartogr... more The paper presents the preliminary results of an ongoing project that combines historical cartographic and economic sources on Cyprus through the employment of geospatial analysis. The main sources are: the 1883 trigonometrical survey of the island by Horatio Herbert Kitchener; the 1572 fiscal survey and 1832/33 property survey by the Ottomans; and the 1931 British agricultural census. The Ottoman and British censuses, different though they are and separated by three and a half centuries, provide vital information on production, economic activity, population, and toponymy. The project correlates this data with the detailed recording of topographical, hydrological, and land use features of the Kitchener map, which constitutes an extremely close depiction of Ottoman conditions given that the transformation of the countryside witnessed during the British colonial period was not yet initiated. This allows the identification of certain constants in the Cypriot environment and landscape. The paper presents the interdisciplinary methodological challenges the project has encountered and proposes a framework for the combination of these different datasets and their analysis in order to better record and understand certain long-term patterns in the Cypriot economy, environment and landscape. It uses viticulture as a case study for the visualisation of data to determine the spatial distribution of vines in the historical long term. Finally, the paper situates its conclusions within broader historiographical discussions on the historical development of viticulture in the Mediterranean.

Turkish Historical Review, 2020

Chasing the Ottoman Early Modern, special issue of Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, eds Virginia H. Aksan, Boğaç A. Ergene and Antonis Hadjikyriacou, 2020

The conceptual tools associated with the historiography of early modernity have received scant at... more The conceptual tools associated with the historiography of early modernity have received scant attention. The lexicon for the study of this period currently includes concepts such as fluidity, ambiguity, adaptability, permeability, malleability, flexibility, accommodation, elasticity, pragmatism, exchange, or encounter. I will here discuss the context within which this trend emerged, and then shift attention to a recently popular term used to describe imperial rule: governance.

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Toplumsal Tarih, 2019

Osmanlı'da Çevre, İklim ve İnsanlar [People, climate and environment in the Ottoman Empire] Speci... more Osmanlı'da Çevre, İklim ve İnsanlar [People, climate and environment in the Ottoman Empire] Special Dossier curated by Önder Eren Akgül

Historein, 2023

Open access at: https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/historein/issue/current

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The book's point of departure is that geography is not obvious, and that its significance changes... more The book's point of departure is that geography is not obvious, and that its significance changes in time, space, and geopolitical setting. Covering the whole of the Ottoman period of Cypriot history (1571-1878), it focuses on the age of revolutions and the decades between 1760 and 1840. The reflection of this global historical process ushered radical shifts in the relationship between people with space, as well as inter- and intra-communal relations. The book's approach is situated at the intersection of environmental, economic, social, and intellectual history, shifting the scale of observation between the local, Ottoman, Mediterranean, and global level. Its overall objective is to shed light upon the historical processes that lead to the ethno-religious conflict of the troubled twentieth century on the island.

"This study offers two important novelties: it situates Cyprus, a relatively quiet Ottoman province, in the age of revolutions, while it systematically employs the opportunities offered by the use of Geographic Information Systems for the purposes of historical analysis to study the Cypriot economy and society during a period of deep transformations. The book can function as a paradigm for the acculturation of researchers with these new analytical tools and for the inoculation of current modes of inquiry in global history in Greek and Cypriot historiography"
Socrates D. Petmezas, Professor of Modern Economic and Social History, University of Crete/Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas.

"Antonis Hadjikyriacou composed a history book in which he combines, with an audacious and original method, and a smooth and comprehensible language, a theoretical and historiographical problematique with the use of digital tools in archival research. This, however, is not a book that only concerns those interested in the history of Cyprus, as the conceptual axes of the Mediterranean, insularity, space, and the age of revolutions, which cross-section the book, and the author's overall methodological approach, render this a text that pushes the reader to contemplate on and reconsider broader historical and historiographical issues.

Antonis Anastasopoulos, Associate Professor of Ottoman History, University of Crete/Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Mediterranean
Chapter 2: People and the Environment
Chapter 3: Communities
Chapter 4: Space
Conclusion
Appendix I: An overview of the period 1760-1840
Appendix II: Samples of entries from the surveys

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.issue-1

POLITICAL THOUGHT AND PRACTICE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRΕ Halcyon days in Crete IX, 2019

Contrary to the traditional image of a stagnating, conservative state, innovation and reform seem... more Contrary to the traditional image of a stagnating, conservative state, innovation and reform seem to have been constant features of Ottoman administration throughout the empire’s long history. As the relevant treatises by Ottoman administrators and intellectuals reveal, reform and change became contested matters especially from the second half of the sixteenth century onwards: some authors felt the need for reform and advocated for it; others perceived changes as a challenge to the traditional order and suggested a return to what was considered the ‘Golden Age’ of the Empire. Eventually, in the grand narrative of Ottoman history, it is the Tanzimat which represents the climax of the process of transformation of the Empire. Even though it is often attributed to the influence (and pressure) of Western Europe, recent studies emphasise the internal dynamics of Ottoman society and administration rather than external factors, treating the developments of the seventeenth and the eighteenth century as a course towards modernity.

This volume aims to explore Ottoman political thought and seeks answers to questions such as those: Did Ottoman political thinkers precede policy-makers in proposing reform, or did political writers feel surpassed by developments with which they did not agree? What was the relation of religion-oriented ideological currents with like-minded reforms in the fiscal and landholding systems? What was the relation between European (and/or Iranian) thought and Ottoman political developments? Was there innovative political thinking that led to the radical reforms of the Tanzimat era?

Moreover, the volume seeks to investigate the relation of political ideas to the political praxis of their time: i.e. to examine the nature of political power in the various stages of the Empire, the developments that led particular groups to advocate specific reforms, the power networks at the administrative and political levels, the reception of political reform in Istanbul and the provinces, the participation of various political actors in state policy-making and its legitimisation, and so forth.

Islands of the Ottoman Empire, (Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2018), 2018

Reprint of the special issue of Princeton Papers, 18 (2017) entitled Insularity in the Ottoman Wo... more Reprint of the special issue of Princeton Papers, 18 (2017) entitled Insularity in the Ottoman World.

Islands have no single obvious attribute, geographic or otherwise. Insularity, then, should not be taken literally and imply isolation; rather it is about what it means to be an island. This volume employs this concept analytically to study islands as a constituent part of the Ottoman world. Drawing attention to the interplay between the material and the mental, it explores how historical actors experience, imagine, and project their engagements with, and within, the spatial setting of islands.

Islands are most commonly conceptualized as oscillating between connectivity and isolation. Contributions to this volume transcend this dichotomy by enquiring into alternative ways to understand insular space. Divided in three parts, the volume explores various historiographical conceptualizations of islands; the manifestations of violence and law in terraqueous spaces; and different ways in which the state has historically tried to regulate insular space.

Table of contents:

Antonis Hadjikyriacou, "Envisioning Insularity in the Ottoman World"

PART I: CONCEPTUALIZING INSULARITY

Spyros Asdrachas, "Observations on Insularity in the Greek World"

Eleftheria Zei, "The Historiography of Aegean insularity"

PART II: VIOLENCE AND LAW IN TERRAQUEOUS SPACE

Michael Talbot, "Separating the Waters from the Sea: The Place of Islands in Ottoman Maritime Territoriality during the Eighteenth Century"

Murat Cem Mengüç, "Maritime Warfare in the Aegean and Ionian Islandscapes: Safai’s History of the 1499 Lepanto Expedition"

PART III: REGULATING ISLANDS

Fatma Şimşek, "Blockading an Island: Collective Punishment, Islanders, and the State in the “Largest” Island at the End of the Nineteenth Century"

Kahraman Şakul, "The Ottoman Peloponnese before the Greek Revolution: “A Republic of Ayan, Hakim and Kocabaşı” in “the Sea of Humans and Valley of Castles”"

Islands have no single obvious attribute, geographic or otherwise. Insularity, then, should not b... more Islands have no single obvious attribute, geographic or otherwise. Insularity, then, should not be taken literally and imply isolation; rather it is about what it means to be an island. This volume employs this concept analytically to study islands as a constituent part of the Ottoman world. Drawing attention to the interplay between the material and the mental, it explores how historical actors experience, imagine, and project their engagements with, and within, the spatial setting of islands.

Islands are most commonly conceptualized as oscillating between connectivity and isolation. Contributions to this volume transcend this dichotomy by enquiring into alternative ways to understand insular space. Divided in three parts, the volume explores various historiographical conceptualizations of islands; the manifestations of violence and law in terraqueous spaces; and different ways in which the state has historically tried to regulate insular space.

Table of contents:

Antonis Hadjikyriacou, "Envisioning Insularity in the Ottoman World"

PART I: CONCEPTUALIZING INSULARITY

Spyros Asdrachas †, "Observations on Insularity in the Greek World"

Eleftheria Zei, "The Historiography of Aegean insularity"

PART II: VIOLENCE AND LAW IN TERRAQUEOUS SPACE

Michael Talbot, "Separating the Waters from the Sea: The Place of Islands in Ottoman Maritime Territoriality during the Eighteenth Century"

Murat Cem Mengüç, "Maritime Warfare in the Aegean and Ionian Islandscapes: Safai’s History of the 1499 Lepanto Expedition"

PART III: REGULATING ISLANDS

Fatma Şimşek, "Blockading an Island: Collective Punishment, Islanders, and the State in the “Largest” Island at the End of the Nineteenth Century"

Kahraman Şakul, "The Ottoman Peloponnese before the Greek Revolution: “A Republic of Ayan, Hakim and Kocabaşı” in “the Sea of Humans and Valley of Castles”"

Confluences Méditerranée, 2024

What would a temporally and spatially macroscopic view of ethno-religious conflict in Cyprus look... more What would a temporally and spatially macroscopic view of ethno-religious conflict in Cyprus look like? It would firstly require an examination of factors not limited to the realm of ideas and culture, as existing approaches do, and incorporate the climatic, environmental, social, and economic dimensions. Secondly, it would necessarily adopt a vision that stretches far beyond the shores of the island to encompass, at the bare minimum, the broader Mediterranean setting. Thirdly, it cannot afford to ignore the global dimension. The recent efflorescence of studies in the history of capitalism provides ample material to reflect on the forms of engagement of Cyprus with this quintessentially global phenomenon.
Synthesising across various narratives of Mediterranean historiography, the present intervention proposes the consideration of six distinct, but overlapping and interconnected, Mediterranean-wide processes and their reflection in the Cypriot locality from the late medieval period to the mid-nineteenth century. By the end of the period under consideration, the combined effect of these processes created a milieu where ethno-religious conflict had accelerated, setting the stage for the much more troublesome and traumatic events of the twentieth century on the island.

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The present study examines some of the revolts and periods of extended turbulence in the Ottoman ... more The present study examines some of the revolts and periods of extended turbulence in the Ottoman Mediterranean during the second half of the eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century to demonstrate that they did not simply constitute premodern phenomena with traditional characteristics, but entailed certain modern elements of novelty. Differentiated from similar phenomena of the sixteenth and the seventeenth century, they functio- ned as a bridge between the early modern and the modern period. The fact allows their inclusion in the global phenomenon of the “age of revolutions” in the Ottoman world and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Where was 1821? Space and Territory in the Greek Revolution. Special Issue of Historein, Vol. 21/1, 2023

Evangelos Papadias, Vasileios Detsis, Antonis Hadjikyriacou, Christoforos Vradis, Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, and Christos Chalkias, "Long-Term Dynamics of Viticultural Landscape in Cyprus: Four Centuries of Expansion, Contraction and Spatial Displacement", Land, 12:1143 (2023), pp. 1-23.

Land, 2023

Viticulture has historically been an important part of the social and economic life in the Medite... more Viticulture has historically been an important part of the social and economic life in the Mediterranean, while wine is reckoned among the oldest documented trades. The aim of the study is to record, evaluate and analyze spatial data from historical sources in order to gain insights into the dynamics of the viticultural landscape from the beginning of the Ottoman period to the present day. The study was based on (a) three historical maps published in 1885, 1942 and 1969, (b) records from historical surveys—two from the Ottoman period (1572 fiscal survey, 1832/33 property survey) and the British agricultural census of 1931, (c) present-day records from the vineyard survey of 2009 carried out by the Republic of Cyprus. In the beginning of the study period the center of viticulture was well established within the area of the southern and eastern slopes of Troodos massif. The vineyards expanded mainly around the same growing area until WW2 when they gradually began to be relocated in southwest direction to lower altitudes. This long-term trajectory of spatial patterns was driven by external demand for the product but also by the interplay of environmental, topographic and cultural factors, as well as by the state’s policy framework which largely reflected long-term Mediterranean-wide patterns.

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Μνήμων, 2021

The article traces the intellectual and political concepts through which individual and collectiv... more The article traces the intellectual and political concepts through which individual and collective historical actors sought to give meaning to their actions and aspirations during the Greek Revolution of 1821. Historiography has amply demonstrated the role of the Enlightenment and modern ideas on statehood and national political organisation in revolutionary developments. At the same time, it has by and large emphasised ruptures in its effort to explain historical change. Understandable though this may be given that the modern Greek state emerged out of a revolution, continuities are rarely, if ever, explored. In seeking to understand the historical change effected by the revolution, we turn our attention at longer-term processes and phenomena that have long been dismissed as ‘traditional’ and ‘backward’ (usually the Ottoman side of the equation), and argue for their equally important role and contribution in the Greek transition to modernity. At the same time, we move away from an east/west or Europe/Asia framework that has long dominated the field to explore the transimperial and transnational context in which the Greek revolution developed as part of the age of revolutions. Dynamic and evolving during a period of change, political concepts and practices reveal a great deal about the ways in which the foundations of the modern Greek state were set.

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Riccardo Bavaj, Konrad Lawson, and Bernhard Struck (eds), Doing Spatial History (London and New York: Routledge), 2021

This chapter explores ways of visualizing economic data from pre-modern fiscal sources that are n... more This chapter explores ways of visualizing economic data from pre-modern fiscal sources that are neither comprehensive nor entirely reliable. It argues that spatial history opens up new vistas for historical analysis both at a conceptual level and at the level of data management and analysis. The case study used in this chapter is the first fiscal survey that the Ottomans conducted upon the conquest of Cyprus. Like any kind of fiscal data, Ottoman state documentation is notoriously limited and partial. To use the assessments of state officials to reconstruct trends and patterns in the economy requires a sustained consideration of the reliability of the data available. The chapter employs geographic information systems (GIS) methods, and uses an inverse distance weighted (IDW) interpolation to visualize economic trends and patterns in the face of the imperfections of the data.

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Proceedings of the International Cartographic Association, 3, 2021

The paper presents the preliminary results of an ongoing project that combines historical cartogr... more The paper presents the preliminary results of an ongoing project that combines historical cartographic and economic sources on Cyprus through the employment of geospatial analysis. The main sources are: the 1883 trigonometrical survey of the island by Horatio Herbert Kitchener; the 1572 fiscal survey and 1832/33 property survey by the Ottomans; and the 1931 British agricultural census. The Ottoman and British censuses, different though they are and separated by three and a half centuries, provide vital information on production, economic activity, population, and toponymy. The project correlates this data with the detailed recording of topographical, hydrological, and land use features of the Kitchener map, which constitutes an extremely close depiction of Ottoman conditions given that the transformation of the countryside witnessed during the British colonial period was not yet initiated. This allows the identification of certain constants in the Cypriot environment and landscape. The paper presents the interdisciplinary methodological challenges the project has encountered and proposes a framework for the combination of these different datasets and their analysis in order to better record and understand certain long-term patterns in the Cypriot economy, environment and landscape. It uses viticulture as a case study for the visualisation of data to determine the spatial distribution of vines in the historical long term. Finally, the paper situates its conclusions within broader historiographical discussions on the historical development of viticulture in the Mediterranean.

Turkish Historical Review, 2020

Chasing the Ottoman Early Modern, special issue of Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, eds Virginia H. Aksan, Boğaç A. Ergene and Antonis Hadjikyriacou, 2020

The conceptual tools associated with the historiography of early modernity have received scant at... more The conceptual tools associated with the historiography of early modernity have received scant attention. The lexicon for the study of this period currently includes concepts such as fluidity, ambiguity, adaptability, permeability, malleability, flexibility, accommodation, elasticity, pragmatism, exchange, or encounter. I will here discuss the context within which this trend emerged, and then shift attention to a recently popular term used to describe imperial rule: governance.

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Toplumsal Tarih, 2019

Osmanlı'da Çevre, İklim ve İnsanlar [People, climate and environment in the Ottoman Empire] Speci... more Osmanlı'da Çevre, İklim ve İnsanlar [People, climate and environment in the Ottoman Empire] Special Dossier curated by Önder Eren Akgül

The French Revolution as a Moment of Respatialization, eds, Matthias Middell and Megan Maruschke, 2019

Marinos Sariyannis, (ed.), Ottoman Political Thought and Practice. Halcyon Days in Crete IX (Rethymno: Crete University Press), 71–96, 2019

Journal of Modern Hellenism, 36, 2024

Review of: Ada Dialla, The Russian Empire and the Greek World: Local, European, and Global Histo... more Review of:
Ada Dialla, The Russian Empire and the Greek World: Local, European, and Global Histories in the Age of Revolutions. Athens: Alexandreia, 2023. 327 pages (in Greek).
Antonis Hadjikyriacou, Peninsular Island: The Mediterranean and Cyprus in the Ottoman Age of Revolutions. Thessaloniki: Psifides, 2023. 438 pages (with 63 maps and 7 tables) + 1 map (in Greek).
Michalis Sotiropoulos, Liberalism after the Revolution: The Intellectual Foundations of the Greek State, c. 1830-1880. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 300 pages.

This study analyses the evolution of Cyprus under Ottoman rule from a geopolitical as well as soc... more This study analyses the evolution of Cyprus under Ottoman rule from a geopolitical as well as social-economic perspective. The author makes use of a Braudelian conceptualization of the islands in the Mediterranean as ‘insular’ spaces and ‘miniature continents,’ but he also endeavors to show the place of the island in Ottoman and Mediterranean history by drawing on the literature on centralization vs. decentralization in the eighteenth-century-Ottoman world and center-periphery relations. Hadjikyriacou establishes the island’s three distinct settings: Mediterranean (Part I, chs. 1, 2), Ottoman (Part II, chs. 3, 4) and local (Parts III, 5, 6, 7). Accordingly, Cyprus was a microcosm of the empire, reflecting the general trends in social-economic, administrative and fiscal developments both in the empire and the Mediterranean world. Read the full review at: http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/9161

MedIns is a comparative spatial history of Ottoman Cyprus and Crete during the early modern perio... more MedIns is a comparative spatial history of Ottoman Cyprus and Crete during the early modern period. Based on data from the conquest fiscal survey registers of Cyprus (1572) and Crete (1669-70), the project employs G.I.S. methods and digital cartographic tools to map the patterns of economic production of the two islands. By employing Geographic Information Systems (G.I.S.) tools and methods, it sets these two fiscal snapshots of the countrysides of the two islands against the backdrops of the rural landscape, geomorphology, water resources, climate, and environment. Through this mode of inquiry, the project constitutes an attempt to make the concept of insularity more tangible by exploring the articulation of material conditions in the spatial setting of an island, and more specifically in two quintessential Braudelian 'miniature continents'.

Funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Intra-European Fellowship for career development under the Seventh Framework Programme (project reference: 630030), the first phase of the project lasted from September 2014 and was sucessfully completed in August 2016. It was hosted at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FO.R.T.H.).

“Histories of a Sea” aims to familiarize students with the long debates and different conceptuali... more “Histories of a Sea” aims to familiarize students with the long debates and different conceptualizations of the Mediterranean as a historical space. It traces the genealogy of the historiography of the Mediterranean by looking at the different explanations for the connecting factors behind the unity of the Mediterranean, or conversely what brought the end of that unity. Trade, culture, or the environment were the main explanations behind the movement of people, goods, and ideas. Each weekly seminar will thoroughly examine one approach, exploring the main trends in the different visions of the Mediterranean. The course will thus examine the key themes and processes that forged the Mediterranean world, whether one sees it as united, divided, or united-in-diversity.
By the end of the course students will: be able to think and work with big analytical categories; move between different scales of analytical thinking, e.g. local, regional, imperial, global; appreciate the shared and overlapping historical processes across or in parts of the Mediterranean; have the capacity to critically evaluate the political connotations of various conceptualizations of the Mediterranean; have synthesized between different approaches to the Mediterranean.

The course introduces students to some of the methods and skills of digital humanities with parti... more The course introduces students to some of the methods and skills of digital humanities with particular emphasis to spatial history. It will illustrate the use of particular programs and applications which allow them to visualize or cartographically represent historical data. The main one will be Recogito, an online application which maps place names from any given text. The course will teach students to think about the benefits and shortcomings of digital methodologies, as well visualization and mapping methods.

Insularities Connected is a major international conference dedicated to the study of islands as a... more Insularities Connected is a major international conference dedicated to the study of islands as a constituent part of seascapes, imperial contexts or any other conceptual framework. Going beyond mere typologies of islands, or the study thereof as a distinct object of inquiry, we invite conference participants to consider the spatial attributes of islands in different historical coordinates. In other words, how insularity, i.e. the condition of being an island, changes over time, place, and context. The study of islands as a spatial category situated within a bigger analytical whole has offered new perspectives in Mediterranean, Caribbean or Indian Ocean studies; we aspire to bring the insights gained by those approaches in a trans-regional dialogue of global scope. The conference therefore enquires into what can be gained by looking at islands not as scattered parts of a regional maritime story, but scans the horizon from the vantage point of islands themselves to find broader, less obvious connections. 2. Conference rationale The conference brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from different fields of study, and invites them to consider the spatial attributes of islands in different historical coordinates. Moving away from the value-laden connotations of the literal definition of insularity, we propose an alternative conceptualization as the condition of

Insularities Connected is a major international conference dedicated to the study of islands as a... more Insularities Connected is a major international conference dedicated to the study of islands as a constituent part of seascapes, imperial contexts or any other conceptual framework. Going beyond mere typologies of islands, or the study thereof as a distinct object of inquiry, we invite conference participants to consider the spatial attributes of islands in different historical coordinates. In other words, how insularity, i.e. the condition of being an island, changes over time, place, and context. The study of islands as a spatial category situated within a bigger analytical whole has offered new perspectives in Mediterranean, Caribbean or Indian Ocean studies; we aspire to bring the insights gained by those approaches in a trans-regional dialogue of global scope. The conference therefore enquires into what can be gained by looking at islands not as scattered parts of a regional maritime story, but scans the horizon from the vantage point of islands themselves to find broader, less obvious connections.

Turkish Historical Review, Jan 1, 2010

Η οικονομική εξουσία σπανίως αποτελεί θέμα δημόσιας συζήτησης. Στις δε περιπτώσεις που αυτό γίνετ... more Η οικονομική εξουσία σπανίως αποτελεί θέμα δημόσιας συζήτησης. Στις δε περιπτώσεις που αυτό γίνεται, η θεματολογία αφορά συνήθως «σπουδαίους» άνδρες, και ενίοτε γυναίκες, με την εξουσία να ερμηνεύεται ως προσωπική επιβράβευση ατομικών ορθολογικών επιλογών. Ταυτόχρονα, η υλική διάσταση του πλούτου και της οικονομικής επιτυχίας γεννά συνειρμούς που παραπέμπουν σε πολύτιμα αντικείμενα, χρήμα, εντυπωσιακά κτίρια και μια κουλτούρα αίγλης και μεγαλοπρέπειας. Πέρα από αυτές τις άμεσες συνδέσεις όμως, η οικονομική εξουσία πολύ συχνά εδράζεται σε λιγότερο εκθαμβωτικές και μη ορατές υλικότητες. Για παράδειγμα, στην περίπτωση της οθωμανικής Κύπρου το σιτάρι, το κριθάρι και το βαμβάκι αποτελούν κάποιες από εκείνες τις όχι και τόσο ορατές υλικότητες που συνιστούν το υπόβαθρο της οικονομικής εξουσίας. Η ιστορική έρευνα καταδεικνύει μια πιο σύνθετη κατάσταση από εκείνη που προσφέρουν τα κυρίαρχα αφηγήματα: οι τακτικές και οι επιλογές ιστορικών προσώπων στην κορυφή της κοινωνικής πυραμίδας αποκλίνουν από την εξιδανικευμένη εικόνα που συχνά αυτοπροβάλλει η εξουσία. Η έρευνα πάνω στην οποία βασίζεται η εγκατάστασή μας αντλεί έμπνευση από το πρόσφατο παγκόσμιο ιστοριογραφικό ενδιαφέρον για τη μετάβαση στον καπιταλισμό ως ιστορική διεργασία – μια μετατόπιση που είναι αποτέλεσμα της οικονομικής κρίσης. Παράλληλα, εντάσσει το θέμα σε ένα ευρύτερο Μεσογειακό πλαίσιο. Στην εγκατάσταση, εξετάζουμε την κυπριακή έκφανση της σχέσης οικονομίας και εξουσίας κατά την οθωμανική περίοδο (1571 – 1878) και εστιάζουμε σε τρεις Κύπριους μεσάζοντες που έπαιξαν κυρίαρχο ρόλο στην οικονομία και κοινωνία του νησιού κατά τη μετάβαση από το 18 ο στο 19 ο αιώνα – μια περίοδο κατά την οποία εντοπίζονται φαινόμενα που συνδέονται με τον καπιταλισμό. Αποφεύγοντας νοητικές και αυστηρά ακαδημαϊκού τύπου διασυνδέσεις μεταξύ εξουσίας και καθημερινής εμπειρίας, η μουσειολογική προσέγγιση της εγκατάστασης απευθύνεται στις υλικότητες στις οποίες εδράζονται οι πιο πάνω ιστορικές διαδικασίες. Ενθαρρύνει έτσι, σωματικές, ακουστικές και απτικές αντιδράσεις στο ζήτημα της εξουσίας τόσο κατά την Οθωμανική, όσο και κατά τη σύγχρονη εποχή. Έχοντας ως αφετηρία την πρώτη Οθωμανική φορολογική απογραφή του 1572, η οποία παρουσιάζει τη φορολογήσιμη παραγωγή προϊόντων του κάθε χωριού της Κύπρου, εντοπίζουμε και φέρνουμε στο προσκήνιο εκείνα τα υλικά και προϊόντα που συνιστούν τη βάση της οικονομίας στην Οθωμανική Κύπρο. Κάποια από αυτά τα προϊόντα και υλικά παρουσιάζονται στις δύο προθήκες του ισογείου είτε σε ακατέργαστη μορφή, είτε μεταποιημένα. Ταυτόχρονα, οι επιλογές μας δεν περιορίζονται αυστηρά στις αναφορές της απογραφής αλλά επιδιώκουν, στη βάση της ιστορικής πάντα έρευνας, να προ(σ)καλέσουν συνειρμούς και να ενεργοποιήσουν το

Economic power is rarely addressed in public discourse. When is, this is done by focusing on 'gre... more Economic power is rarely addressed in public discourse. When is, this is done by focusing on 'great' men, and occasionally women, while power is understood as a reward due to personal rational choices. At the same time the materiality of wealth and of economic success is associated with valuable goods, money, grandiose buildings and a culture of glamour. Beyond these immediate associations however, economic power very often rests within materialities that are less spectacular and less visible. For example, in the case of Ottoman Cyprus, wheat, barley and cotton are some of those not-so-visible materialities which constitute the foundation of economic power. Historical research points to a much more complicated picture than the one dominant narratives offer: the tactics and choices exhibited by historical actors at the top of the social pyramid diverge significantly from the idealized image that power itself projects. The research on which our installation is based draws inspiration from the recent shift in international historiographical interest towards the study of the transition to capitalism as a historical process – a shift related to the economic crisis. At the same time, it situates the topic within a broader Mediterranean framework. Our installation investigates the manifestations of the relationship between economy and power in the context of Ottoman Cyprus (1571 – 1878) and focuses on three Cypriot intermediaries who had a prominent role in the economy and society of the island during that transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century – a period when phenomena related to capitalism become visible. In challenging cognitive and strictly academic-like connections between power and real life experience, the museological approach of the the installation addresses those materialities on which the above historical processes were founded. It thus invites corporeal, acoustic, and haptic involvements with the issue of power in the Ottoman, as well as the present-day lived experience. Our starting point is the first Ottoman fiscal survey register of 1572, which presents us with the taxable production for each village of Cyprus; we thus locate and bring to the fore those materials and products which form the basis of Cypriot economy in the Ottoman era. Some of these products and materials are presented in the two display cases at the ground floor either in their raw or processed form. At the same time, our choices are not strictly limited to the items of the register: while still being informed by historical research, they aim to invite (and instigate) associations and mobilize imageries over the wider cultural and trade commercial contacts of Cyprus during the whole of the Ottoman period. We also present the transcribed 1572 register showing the agricultural production of the island village by village, as well as maps illustrating the distribution of particular goods.

Presentation at the Işık kitabevi book fair, for the panel entitled 'Coğrafya kader mi?', 30 Augu... more Presentation at the Işık kitabevi book fair, for the panel entitled 'Coğrafya kader mi?', 30 August 2019

Digital Ottoman Platform workshop -Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, N.J. June 2015

Halcyon Days in Crete IX: Ottoman Political Thought Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Foundat... more Halcyon Days in Crete IX: Ottoman Political Thought
Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas
8-11 January 2015.

Useful as the concept of millet may have been to historians and social scientists studying the tr... more Useful as the concept of millet may have been to historians and social scientists studying the transition to the nation-state in the post-Ottoman realms, it is often perceived as the vital link between pre-modern and modern structures of power and authority within communities on their path to nationhood. Yet, the debates among Ottomanists on the nature of the millet system have not yet had an impact to scholars outside the immediate field. In this context, religion is often perceived as the main, if not only, cohesive element that defined the internal organization of local communities. An important new corpus of studies on communities throughout the empire has shed considerable light on the mechanics of collective representation, legitimacy, and the fiscal and administrative functions of communal organization. Despite the fact that the Ottoman legal system did not recognize corporate entities, Ottoman bureaucrats and legal scholars proved pragmatic enough to work round this conundrum. Thus, the evolution of structures of representation largely took place along the grey zone that lay between formally recognized and actually functioning modes of communal organization. This interplay between the de facto and the de jure is vividly encountered in the bureaucratic parlance and official nomenclature created and manipulated by provincial and imperial actors. Delineating the patterns of communal representation illustrates that neither clerical nor lay officials held any exclusive right over the leadership of the community despite their claims to, and projection of, an institutional identity at different points in time. In an attempt to elucidate these issues, this lecture examines local and imperial documentation in an attempt to understand the multiple layers of the complex interaction between center and province in a Mediterranean island setting.

Contributing to the discussions on the reconfigurations of wealth and power in the Ottoman Empire... more Contributing to the discussions on the reconfigurations of wealth and power in the Ottoman Empire between the mid-eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth century, this article considers the cases of three provincial notables in a provincial setting: Hadjiyorgakis Kornesios, dragoman of Cyprus; the muhassıl (tax-farming governor) Hacı Abdülbaki Ağa; and the Armenian consular dragoman-cum-merchant Sarkis. Seeking analytical categories that move beyond a rigid center/province dichotomy, this article makes an initial attempt towards articulating an alternative scheme for understanding imperial space, and move beyond a spatial imagination confined to conventional administrative organization. Utilizing the Braudelian concept of ‘miniature continents’ allows an envisioning of the Cypriot insularity that sheds light on the nature of economic relations, modes of production, and patterns of concentration of the rural surplus. The three local intermediaries examined here are ideal case studies that can facilitate, or indeed instigate, this sort of inquiry.

Öz 18. yüzyıl ortalarından 19. yüzyıl ortalarına kadarki dönemde Osmanlı taşra-sındaki servet ve iktidarın yeniden dağıtılmasına ilişkin tartışmalara katkı yapmayı amaçlayan bu makalede, üç mahalli seçkin üzerine odaklanılmaktadır: Kıbrıs tercü-manı Hadjiyorgakis Kornesios (Acı Yorgaki), muhassıl Hacı Abdülbaki Ağa, Ermeni asıllı tüccar ve aynı zamanda elçilik tercümanlığı yapan Sarkis. Çalışmada, katı bir merkez-çevre ikileminin ötesine geçen analitik kategoriler aranmış, imparatorluk coğrafyasını daha iyi anlamak ve şimdiye kadar daha çok idari teşkilat üzerinden tanımlanan mekânsal tahayyülün ötesine geçmek için alternatif bir yaklaşım denen-miştir. Braudel'in " minyatür kıtalar " kavramı kullanılarak Kıbrıs'taki yalıtılmış mekân olgusunu tasavvur etmek mümkün olmuş, bu sayede daha genel bağlamda ekonomik ilişkilerin doğası, üretim biçimleri ve taşradaki artıdeğerin birikimi daha iyi anlaşı-labilmiştir. Burada incelenen üç yerel aracı, bu türden bir yaklaşımı araştırmacı için kolaylaştıran ve hatta teşvik eden ideal vakalar sunmuşlardır. This article examines three provincial intermediaries in Cyprus during the closing decades of the eighteenth century. It considers these cases as examples of some of the groups of Ottoman subjects who came to benefit in more ways than one from the redistribution of wealth and power in the Ottoman Empire during the period between 1750 and 1850. In this era, Ottoman imperial governance

Table of contents for Journal of Mediterranean Studies 25.1 (2016), special issue on 'Othello and... more Table of contents for Journal of Mediterranean Studies 25.1 (2016), special issue on 'Othello and his Islands: Papers from the First Three Othello's Island Conferences'

Greeks had experience of representation and political participation under Ottoman rule. They were... more Greeks had experience of representation and political participation under Ottoman rule. They were also exposed to shifting currents in European thought, in the context of the ‘Greek enlightenment’, study and commercial activity abroad, and revolutionary/Napoleonic conflicts. Both traditions shaped their behaviour when they designed republican institutions in the context of their war of independence from 1821. When they accepted a king from Bavaria as the price for international recognition in 1833, limits were set to their ability to shape their own destiny. Nonetheless, intellectuals continued to synthesize ideas about politics and government for local use, and constitutional revolution in 1843 established a formal context for participatory politics. ‘Democracy’ in Greek did service for both ‘republic’ and ‘democracy’, but, by the time a new revolution prompted a change in dynasty in 1864, the term was being used both to reflect on Greece’s problems and to outline possible solutions.

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Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association

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Viticulture has historically been an important part of the social and economic life in the Medite... more Viticulture has historically been an important part of the social and economic life in the Mediterranean, while wine is reckoned among the oldest documented trades. The aim of the study is to record, evaluate and analyze spatial data from historical sources in order to gain insights into the dynamics of the viticultural landscape from the beginning of the Ottoman period to the present day. The study was based on (a) three historical maps published in 1885, 1942 and 1969, (b) records from historical surveys—two from the Ottoman period (1572 fiscal survey, 1832/33 property survey) and the British agricultural census of 1931, (c) present-day records from the vineyard survey of 2009 carried out by the Republic of Cyprus. In the beginning of the study period the center of viticulture was well established within the area of the southern and eastern slopes of Troodos massif. The vineyards expanded mainly around the same growing area until WW2 when they gradually began to be relocated in so...

POLITICAL THOUGHT AND PRACTICE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRΕ Halcyon days in Crete IX, 2019

Contrary to the traditional image of a stagnating, conservative state, innovation and reform seem... more Contrary to the traditional image of a stagnating, conservative state, innovation and reform seem to have been constant features of Ottoman administration throughout the empire’s long history. As the relevant treatises by Ottoman administrators and intellectuals reveal, reform and change became contested matters especially from the second half of the sixteenth century onwards: some authors felt the need for reform and advocated for it; others perceived changes as a challenge to the traditional order and suggested a return to what was considered the ‘Golden Age’ of the Empire. Eventually, in the grand narrative of Ottoman history, it is the Tanzimat which represents the climax of the process of transformation of the Empire. Even though it is often attributed to the influence (and pressure) of Western Europe, recent studies emphasise the internal dynamics of Ottoman society and administration rather than external factors, treating the developments of the seventeenth and the eighteenth century as a course towards modernity. This volume aims to explore Ottoman political thought and seeks answers to questions such as those: Did Ottoman political thinkers precede policy-makers in proposing reform, or did political writers feel surpassed by developments with which they did not agree? What was the relation of religion-oriented ideological currents with like-minded reforms in the fiscal and landholding systems? What was the relation between European (and/or Iranian) thought and Ottoman political developments? Was there innovative political thinking that led to the radical reforms of the Tanzimat era? Moreover, the volume seeks to investigate the relation of political ideas to the political praxis of their time: i.e. to examine the nature of political power in the various stages of the Empire, the developments that led particular groups to advocate specific reforms, the power networks at the administrative and political levels, the reception of political reform in Istanbul and the provinces, the participation of various political actors in state policy-making and its legitimisation, and so forth.

Turkish Historical Review, 2021

Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, 2020

The conceptual tools associated with the historiography of early modernity have received scant at... more The conceptual tools associated with the historiography of early modernity have received scant attention. The lexicon for the study of this period currently includes concepts such as fluidity, ambiguity, adaptability, permeability, malleability, flexibility, accommodation, elasticity, pragmatism, exchange, or encounter. I will here discuss the context within which this trend emerged, and then shift attention to a recently popular term used to describe imperial rule: governance.

Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 2016

Abstract: Examining the century-long period of the incorporation of Cyprus into the Ottoman Empir... more Abstract: Examining the century-long period of the incorporation of Cyprus into the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of the conquest of 1571, the article identifies the multiple processes that characterised the Ottomanisation of the island. It examines specific instances of turmoil due to the transitional nature of a period characterised by reconfigurations and realignments. Conceptualising Cyprus as a ‘contact zone’, the article demonstrates that developments observed on the island are reflections of larger processes that were under way on a Mediterranean scale. Finally, the article proposes the notion of insularity as an alternative means to envision historical space, in order to go beyond a state-centric spatial imagination.

Doing Spatial History, 2021

Greeks had experience of representation and political participation under Ottoman rule. They were... more Greeks had experience of representation and political participation under Ottoman rule. They were also exposed to shifting currents in European thought, in the context of the ‘Greek enlightenment’, study and commercial activity abroad, and revolutionary/Napoleonic conflicts. Both traditions shaped their behaviour when they designed republican institutions in the context of their war of independence from 1821. When they accepted a king from Bavaria as the price for international recognition in 1833, limits were set to their ability to shape their own destiny. Nonetheless, intellectuals continued to synthesize ideas about politics and government for local use, and constitutional revolution in 1843 established a formal context for participatory politics. ‘Democracy’ in Greek did service for both ‘republic’ and ‘democracy’, but, by the time a new revolution prompted a change in dynasty in 1864, the term was being used both to reflect on Greece’s problems and to outline possible solutions.

Proceedings of the ICA, 2021

forthcoming in Doing Spatial History, Bernhard Struck, Riccardo Bavaj and Konrad C. Lawson, eds (London: Routledge, 2020), 2020

Dear colleaugues, This is my first paper on tahrir defterleri. I would appreciate any feedback, s... more Dear colleaugues, This is my first paper on tahrir defterleri. I would appreciate any feedback, suggestions and ideas. Warm regards, Antonis

Mediterranean Historical Review, 2014

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The French Revolution as a Moment of Respatialization

The French Revolution as a Moment of Respatialization

Turkish Historical Review, 2010