SemMod- Transforming Byzantine Urban Settlements


jeudi 30 mars 2023    
18:30-EEST
École française d'Athènes
Didotou 6, Athens, 10680
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Transforming Byzantine Urban Settlements into Early Ottoman in the late 14th century. The example of Evrenos Beg in Northern Greece

Dimitris Loupis Seminar of Ottoman Language & Paleography, IMXA-Institute for Balkan Studies
Respondent : Georgios Pallis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of History and Archaeology

Séminaire hybride / Υβριδικό σεμινάριο  / Hybrid seminar
=> Salle des conférences de l’EFA, Didotou 6  / Αίθουσα διαλέξεων της ΓΣΑ, Διδότου 6 / EFA Conference room, Didotou 6
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The Early Ottoman presence in Europe started in 1352, when military activities of expansion began in Thrace. Among other military leaders, Evrenos Beg has been very active in the expansion of Ottoman sovereignty against Byzantine, Serbian or other local powers over areas along Via Egnatia. Evrenos Beg through constant raids gradually secured Ottoman presence in the area of Thrace and Macedonia by making conquered urban settlements seats of his might as he was pushing the frontier towards the west. Komotini/Gümülcine, Serres/Siroz, and finally Gianitsa/Yenice-i Vardar were used as centers in that process of conquest. This paper discusses the procedure of transforming Byzantine settlements into Ottoman cities with the establishment of urban nucleuses around which Islamic presence was developed.

 

Programme 2023

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