An Ottoman Pompeii

At the outbreak of what would become known as the Greek Revolution, what Ottoman authorities cond as a Greek insurgency, Istanbul bme the stage for a crisis that would reshape the Ottoman Empire the eastern Mediterranean. An Ottoman Pompeii: The Greek Revolution the Limits of Conviviality in 1821 Istanbul uncovers this moment through an extraordinary population register compiled in spring early summer 1821, just as rebellion, reprisal, suspicion, imperial surveillance converged in the capital.Christine Philliou treats this register as a time capsule: a granular record of more than 13,000 non-Muslim residents—Orthodox Christians, Armenians, Jews—whose world emerges above all through Istanbul’s hans their rooms, as well as through their neighborhoods, cupations, origins, networks. Like Pompeii, preserved by catastrophe, the register freezes an urban world at the instant of rupture. It reveals not only the violence fear surrounding the imperial response to revolt, but also the everyday coexistence, labor, migration, sol intimacy that still bound Istanbul’s communities together. By including a verbatim transliteration of the register, An Ottoman Pompeii also opens this remarkable source to further research, enabling scholars to trace new patterns of urban life, labor, migration, coexistence, rupture in the Ottoman capital.Moving between Ottoman imperial history the emergence of Greek national history, An Ottoman Pompeii offers a new way of seeing the city before modern categories hardened: as a dense, fragile, interconnected world whose traces were recorded at the very moment its foundations were beginning to fracture.Christine Philliou is Professor in the Department of History at University of California Berkeley Director of the Modern Greek/Hellenic Studies Turkish, Ottoman Post-Ottoman Studies (TOPOS) programs there.Transliteration Editor: Elias KolovosData analysis visualizations: Firuzan Melike SümertaşÜrün Adı: An Ottoman PompeiiÜrün Kodu: 9786258520835Yazar: Christine PhilliouBasım Yılı: 2026Kapak Türü: Karton KapakSayfa Sayısı: 424Kağıt Cinsi: 2. HamurÇevirmen: