It would seem that with the reopening of the taverns in 1827, everything was back to normal. The night in the capital assumed its old, familiar form, allowing what the day forbade. But, with the eradication of the janissaries and the final marginalization of the Bektaşis, the forces that had pushed back against the incursion of sultanic authority into the night and kept it as a space of ambivalence and ambiguity, but also of much violence and insecurity, were finally gone. The night would now be gradually colonized by an increasingly centralizing government promoting more orthodox Islam.1