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Settlement Pattern Change in the Morea (Peloponnisos), c.A.D. 1700-1830

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Elena Frangakis  and
Malcolm Wagstaff
Elena Frangakis
Affiliation:
University of Southampton, City University of New York
Malcolm Wagstaff
Affiliation:
University of Southampton, City University of New York
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The historiography of the Ottoman period (Tourkokratia) in what is now the state of Greece contains many untested propositions about both the nature and the consequences of Turkish rule (Hatzidimitriou 1982). Amongst these is the notion that during the Ottoman occupation the Christian population — or at least a sizeable proportion of it — was driven into the mountains. Our paper sets out to test the hypothesis — for such it is — using readily available published information on the settlements of the Morea (Peloponnisos) dating from c.1700 and c.1830. First, though, we specify the hypothesis and indicate the types of evidence which appear to give it support.

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Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , Volume 11 , 1987 , pp. 163 - 192
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Copyright © The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham 1987

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