Orthodox Christians, as well as other non-Muslims of the Ottoman Empire, have long been
treated as insular and homogenous entities, distinctly different and separate from the rest of …

Author Juraj Buzalka analyses the interplay between religion, politics and memory in the
context of postsocialist transformations in south-east Poland. He shows that two Catholic …

The Ottoman past remains one of the most controversial historical subjects across much of
the Balkans. Amid the violent state-building projects that emerged in Yugoslavia after the …

With contributions from several of the Balkan countries that once were united under the
aegis of the Ottoman Empire, this special issue proposes new theoretical approaches to the …

This book aims to contribute to the reconciliation of Greeks and Turks, the two neighbouring
countries of the Aegean that clashed in the first quarter of the twentieth century with the rise …

Faced with discrimination in Turkey, the Greeks of Istanbul and Imbros overwhelmingly left
the country of their birth in the years c. 1940–1980 to resettle in Greece, where they received …

Greece and Turkey are situated at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and
their inhabitants have had a long history of cultural interaction even though their languages …

This chapter focuses on loss as such an analytic frame for studying the Greek-Turkish
encounter in Cyprus. It examines a series of interviews with refugees who are members of …

The purpose of this dissertation is twofold; firstly, it focuses on the transformation of the
social identity of Orthodox Christians from religious to national in the region of Cappadocia …

Cappadocia was a place of co-habitation of Christians and Muslims, until the Greco-Turkish
Population Exchange (1923) terminated the Christian presence in the region. Using an …