The Christian Population of 16th-Century Ottoman Anatolia
An Overview and Preliminary Observations on Its Location and Numbers in the 1520s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21822764 |
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| Authors | Κωνσταντίνος Μουστάκας (0000-0002-1721-7121, University of Crete), Konstantinos Moustakas (0000-0003-1301-2484, Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, Department of History and Archaeology, https://dx.doi.org/37777University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece), Aikaterini Konstantina Kontopanagou (Ionian University), Petros Kastrinakis (University of Crete) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 107-133 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-08 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Turkish Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1877-5454 • E-ISSN: 1877-5462 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/18775462-bja10064 |
| OpenAlex | W4394817585 |
| Language | EN |
By the 15th century, the transformation of Anatolia into a region with a large Muslim majority had been completed. By then the Christian population in most of Anatolia was either small—in absolute numbers as well as in comparison to Muslims—or non-existent. This general picture has long been known to scholarship, yet no effort has been made to date to provide a systematic overall perspective of the Christian presence in Ottoman Anatolia. This article offers a preliminary overview of the location and relative strength or weakness of that presence in the different parts of Anatolia, based on data from Ottoman fiscal registers that reflect the situation in the 1520s
Ancient history · Art · Geography · Ottoman empire · Political science · Population · Scholarship · Sociology · Byzantine Studies and History · Demography · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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