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Philliou: Interpreting the Ottoman Past through the National Present [a9e01cbd]

Tags: turkey, europe, ottoman, Post-Ottoman Near East

Talks about the Ottoman legacy of the Balkans and the Middle East via Mursus Pasha and his patron

  • booming business of land deeds of families in Greece written in Ottoman
  • Talks about the status of dragomans - a translater/interpreter/political analyst all combined into one

Concludes talking about how the legacy of Ottoman Turkish archives has only just begun to be researched, does recent neo-Ottoman and Turkey/Greek detant revolve around parallel national imaginations?

1. Mursus Pasha

  • Ambassador to the Kingdom of Greece, then Switzerland, then London

  • Married the daughter of Stephanos Vogorides

    • Both were in the circles of the imperial ottoman court
    • Vogorides was the nominal prince of a small island
    • Engaged in weekly correspondence between 1830's-1850's
    • both engaged in promulgation of the tanzimat

  • Spoke Greek, didn't quite master Ottoman Turkish

    • Greek was the language of the Orthodox Christian Church, and largest non-Muslim group in the empire
  • Nation of greece was the first independent successor-state to the Ottoman empire