Greeks and Turks in the kaza of Monemvasia: ethnic identities, religion and their social aspects during the second Ottoman rule of the Peloponnese (1715-1821) with Petros Tsanglis

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Petros Tsanglis (University of Crete)

Greeks and Turks in the kaza of Monemvasia: ethnic identities, religion and their social aspects during the second Ottoman rule of the Peloponnese (1715-1821)

Summary of talk

Modern scholars usually focus on the study of “hot” historical subjects like the economy of thriving urban centres, the architecture of strong castles or the outcome and the consequences of great battles and palatial intrigues. Of course, such subjects are attractive and wealthy in evidence, thus more popular among the general public. On the other hand, though, this trend constantly tends to neglect and leave unexplored a whole past “world”, the world of the countryside. Fortunately, this academic perspective has been gradually changing during the last decades resulting in the emergence of useful information and clues about the life, the needs and the ordinary customs of the rural people, who lived on the sidelines of History. In this talk I will introduce the society, the economy and the interactions between the Greeks and the Turks in the rural areas of South-Eastern Laconia during the second Ottoman rule of the Peloponnese (1715-1821). The talk’s main evidence will be extracted from my most recently published monograph “Between Mani and Tsakonia” (“Graphi” publications, summer 2024) and is based mainly on old records and archival documents. Through this innovative approach I hope to demonstrate that everyday human necessities, worldviews and ambitions impose much more complicated relations among different peoples than just a constant hostility between the conqueror and the conquered and that even widely accepted notions like “homeland”, “nation”, “freedom” or “justice” can be sometimes subjective and blurry.    

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