«Venetians and Ottomans in the Southeast Peloponnese (15th-18th Century), Halil Inalcık Armağanı - I», Tarih Araştırmaları, Ankara, Doğu Batı, 2009, 168-204. (original) (raw)

The Early Ottoman Peloponnese: A study in the light of an annotated editio princeps of the TT10-1/14662 Ottoman taxation cadastre (ca. 1460-1463)

The Gingko Library, 2019

In this book, Georgios C. Liakopoulos presents a unique insight into late Byzantine Peloponnese society and its economy, and how these were incorporated into the Ottoman Empire, using as reference the cadastre compiled immediately after the Ottoman conquest. What makes this study imperative is the fact that no similar Byzantine document of the period has survived. The author offers a thorough analysis of the demography of the Peloponnese and its categorisation into urban/rural and sedentary/nomadic, concentrating on the Albanians, the second largest ethnic group after the Greeks. A detailed presentation of the level of agricultural production, livestock, fishing and commerce is illustrated with tables and charts. The book is complemented with a diplomatic edition of the transcribed Ottoman text and facsimiles of the cadastre.

Elias Kolovos, "An Ottoman Register of Venetian Candia", in Venetians and Ottomans in the Early Modern Age (=Hilâl: Studi Turchi e Ottomani 6), Venezia 2018, 75-85

2018

The paper is a preliminary study of the register Tapu Tahrir 798 located in the Ottoman Archives (Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi) in Istanbul. In 1669 it surveys the newly conquered town of Candia (Crete) in great detail, from quarter to quarter and from building to building. The register provides rich information for the Venetian Candia, since it includes the public buildings of the town that passed to the Ottomans, as well as the names of the previous owners of the town dwellings, who had evacuated the town after its surrender, and the names of the current owners. Thus, this source provides us with the tools to study the spatial transformation of the town during the transition from the Venetian to the Ottoman rule, the settlement patterns of the religious and social groups, and the social use of space.

The Ottoman Mediterranean and the Renaissance Venetian Isolarii

Studii şi Materiale de Istorie Medie , 2015

The main contention of this article is that from the very beginning of the genre to its very end, the Venetian isolarii viewed the Levant as a network of islands fractured by the Ottomans’ conquest. Cartographical narratives of a historical trauma, the Venetian isolarii adopted different strategies for tackling a highly sensitive topic. As the Ottomans were steadily advancing along the Eastern Mediterranean archipelagos, the Venetian cartographers, such as Bartolomeo dalli Sonetti and Benedetto Bordone, were carefully editing the content of their isolarii, expecting from their readers to mentally map the invisible confrontation between the Sultan’s army and the Serenissima. The Lepanto victory brought a radical change of tone, and the mapmakers, such as Tomasso Porcacchi, Giovanni Camocio or Simon Pinargenti, manifestly joined the choir of those who were looking forward to the Venetian resurgence in the Levant. The fracture of the Eastern Mediterranean space was no longer suggested, but visibly exposed. However, it was only a change of tone, as the mapmakers continued to convey the same fundamental ideas. Thus, the Venetian isolarii display a remarkable continuity through time, from its beginnings to the post-Lepanto era and illustrate both the enduring format of this cartographic genre and its adaptability.

Giakoumis K. (2002), ‘The Ottoman Campaign to Otranto and Apulia (1480-1481)’, in The Turks, edited by H. C. Güzel, C. C. Oğuz and O. Karatay, Ankara, v. 3 (Ottomans), pp. 189-197.

The Turks, 2002

My purpose in this study is to examine the Ottoman invasion of Otranto and Apulia in relation to the social condition of the Ottoman Empire in the seventh and eighth decade of the 15th Century, to reconsider the irrefutable contribution of the 1481 rebellions of western provinces in Epiros and Albania , and to piece a few relevant Greek sources together with the Italian and Ottoman ones.

Α “Resurrection of building lots”, or the possibility of reconstructing the parcellation of Venetian Candia, based on the 1669 Ottoman Register TT-798 and questions on its transformation up until 1901.

2024

The Ottoman Register TT-798 was compiled in 1669, immediately after the capture of Venetian Candia in Crete, Greece. The dissertation proposes a theoretical framework and a practical methodology in order to leverage the purely textual information of the Register in reconstructing the lot structure of Candiaʼs city blocks. In other words, it presents a method for converting textual information into graphic spatial data with enhanced analytical power. This approach also helps in formulating important questions about how the parcellation pattern of the late Venetian city evolved under Ottoman rule, up until 1901. An attempt is made to reconstruct specific city blocks, highlighting and addressing the challenges posed by intratextual limitations and logical inconsistencies within the Register. Given the radical changes to the city's street plan during the 20th century, General H.R. Werdmüllerʼs reliable map from the final years of the Great Siege of Candia, along with the 1901 city map, provide the essential cartographic background for this study. Post-graduate Thesis University of Crete-School of Letters Department of History and Archaeology and IMS-FORTH, Joint Master’s Program in Ottoman History (The original title of this dissertation in Greek is H δυνατότητα ανασύστασης της οικοπεδικής δομής του βενετικού Χάνδακα με βάση την καταγραφή του οθωμανικού απογραφικού καταστίχου TT 798 του 1669. It is available on E-Locus: the University of Crete Institutional Repository https://elocus.lib.uoc.gr/)

Elias Kolovos, Border(is)lands: The Ottoman-Venetian Frontier of the Ionian Islands (Late Fifteenth to Late Seventeenth Century)

Ο Νέος Ελληνισμός, οι κόσμοι του και ο κόσμος: αφιέρωμα στην Όλγα Κατσιαρδή-Hering, 2021

The paper explores the frontier between the Ottoman territories and the Venetian islands in the Ionian Sea between the late fifteenth and the late seventeenth century. The paper focuses on the fortress of Aya Mavra, which became the Ottoman military stronghold in the “Wild West” of their provinces, and the island of Lefkada. Following the historiography of the frontiers and the borderlands, the paper aims both at describing the military character of the Ottoman-Venetian frontier and at analyzing its permeability. In this context, islands like Lefkada, became border(is)lands, within the larger and more complex historical maritime frontiers.

Precursors of scientific mapping of Peloponnese: two early 18 th century rare Venetian maps

2014

Summary: The importance of the Peloponnese, due to its geographic position, is well known in History. The key-position in the Mediterranean was reflected into the great number of cartographic representations in the course of mapping history. Almost a century before the “semi-topographical” military maps, 1 of French, British and Austrian origin representing Greece and the surrounding areas in the early 19 th century, with Peloponnese dominant in these representations, the Venetians had performed surveying and mapping works in Peloponnese. Actually from the late 17 th to the early 18 th century the Venetian surveyors, civil and military, were active in fieldwork all over their possessions in the Morea for the construction of general medium-scale regional maps and of a number of local cadastral plans. The Venetian mapping of the Peloponnese was so less-known in the current cartographic historiography, compared to the very well known a century later relevant maps by the French, Austria...

Venetians and Ottomans in the Early Modern Age

Hilâl, 2018

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