Living in the Ottoman Realm. Empire and Identity, 13th to 20th Centuries

244 | The Province Goes to the Center dragoman and his associates managed to concentrate the vast majority of the island’s wheat ...

Hadjikyriacou | 245 Two years later, and with the memory of famine still fresh, rumors of grain hoarding coupled with extraordin ...

246 | The Province Goes to the Center no other Cypriot non-Muslim had walked before—that is, claiming authority over the island’ ...

Hadjikyriacou | 247 From “the Devoted Yorgaki, the Lord Dragoman” to “the Above-Mentioned Executed” As was typical in the punish ...

248 | The Province Goes to the Center A decision to that effect could not be taken lightly, and this may go a long way toward ex ...

Hadjikyriacou | 249 the Muslims and non-Muslims of Cyprus continued paying the debts incurred by the late dragoman long after hi ...

250 | The Province Goes to the Center regional powerful magnates came to claim their stake in imperial governance, even if he fu ...

Hadjikyriacou | 251 local economies and populations suffered under the excessive profit-seeking be- havior of regional magnates ...

252 | The Province Goes to the Center . Myrianthopoulos, Hatzēgeōrgakis Kornesios, 78–79. . Petition of the non-Muslims of Cyp ...

Hadjikyriacou | 253 May–June 1809, Cevdet Maliye 4454; January 11, 1815, Cevdet Maliye 4835; June 25, 1810, Cevdet Maliye 6521; ...

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pa rt I V th through th Centuries Modernity, Mass Politics, and Nationalism: From Empire to Nation-State The final century o ...

256 | Living in the Ottoman Realm restructuring the empire and transforming itself on all levels—administratively, fiscally, eco ...

19th through 20th Centuries | 257 population transfers, and multiple genocides. The events of the final years of the empire had ...

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 Ruler Visibility, Modernity, and Ethnonationalism in the Late Ottoman Empire Darin N. Stephanov World War I ended the Ottoman ...

260 | Ruler Visibility, Modernity, and Ethnonationalism Ruler Visibility Today, in the age of the internet and social networking ...

Stephanov | 261 with were ethnonational groups. In fact, such groups did not exist at the time. They simply had no basis in real ...

262 | Ruler Visibility, Modernity, and Ethnonationalism Mahmud II’s son Abdülmecid (r. 1839–1861) stayed the course politically ...

Stephanov | 263 realities of sultanic power in the capital. As the sultan proceeded quietly, how- ever, he showed none of his an ...