This paper discusses demographic engineering and the renaming of places as closely
interrelated policies of nationalising states seeking to increase their hold over contested …

Reference to identity is ubiquitous in archaeology. Even when identity is not part of the
questions driving research, assumptions about it affect interpretations of data; the terms …

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 …

Church History reveals that Christianity has its roots in Palestine during the first century and
was spread throughout the Mediterranean countries by the Apostles. However, despite …

This article focuses on the representations of Greek–Turkish relations among local political
elites in the Greek border region of Evros. The transition from competitive nationalism to …

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 …

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 …

Comparing political approaches toward Turkish/Muslim minorities in Bulgaria and Greece
became a necessity in order to examine the integration of minority groups under different …

Anderson notes that people are willing to kill or be killed for the sake of the nation. Billig
adds that people accept myths as history, or describe their feelings as patriotism, while they …

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the Greek state engaged in a campaign
that opted to present southern Macedonia as a genuinely Hellenic space. The goal was to …