Antonis Hadjikyriacou & Ali Yaycıoǧlu: Mapping Ottoman Epirus: Space, Power, and Empire Video

The Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) hosts Antonis Hadjikyriacou (Boğaziçi University) and Ali Yaycıoǧlu (Stanford University) for their talk entitled "Mapping Ottoman Epirus: Space, Power, and Empire."

Filmed April 18, 2017.

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In the 18th and and 19th centuries, the Ottoman Empire, from the Greece to Crimea, from Anatolia to Egypt, (including tens of islands in the Mediterranean), was divided into regional orders under the leadership of various provincial dynasties. These dynasties established fiscal and administrative contactual relations with the Empire, built diverse mechanisms for agricultural economy, taxation, trade, transportation and communication, and initiated architectural and technological infrastructure with natural resources and local expertise.

This project aims to map the political and economic landscape of Greece during the Ottoman period, focusing on the 18th and 19th centuries. More specifically, the main purpose of the project is to construct a GIS-based digital and interactive map of Ottoman Greece and to designate urban and village settlements, agricultural and pastoral landscapes, transportation webs and monuments, mercantile and intellectual networks, the structure of governance and administrative setting, and accumulation of power and wealth in Western and Central Greece. In doing so, we integrate complex and multifaceted data gathered from archival documents in Ottoman-Turkish and Greek (as well as French, Russian, and English), topographic data derived from our field trips and geo-historical sources, and historical maps as well as other visual material.

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