Phokion Kotzageorgis- Professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Phokion Kotzageorgis
- Professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
About
18
Publications
2,395
Reads
How we measure 'reads'
A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. Learn more
32
Citations
Introduction
Current institution
Additional affiliations
Publications
Publications (18)
Greeks have left a powerful imprint on the history of civilization over the centuries. Their overall presence appears at times intense or weak. Greece’s contemporary territory is the latest cartographic expression of this long continuum.
Picturing Greek lands is initially a matter of managing the rules of cartography. The area covered by Hellenism...
This article discusses a newly found Ottoman document. It concerns the oldest—to date—patriarchal diploma of investiture ( berat ), which was issued for Patriarch Raphael i (1475–76). This and the other two known berat s from that epoch constitute a successive set of such documents, and give scholars the opportunity to study the mechanisms of produ...
The paper discusses the Ottoman documents kept in the monasteries of Mount Athos,
focusing on those dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The paper comprises three parts and an appendix. The first part provides an overview of the publication and study of this material, presenting the specialists who have worked on it, from the 1930s t...
Thessaloniki was the biggest city conquered by the Ottomans before Istanbul. Furthermore, it was conquered by force. Thus, this city is a good example for researchers to understand how the Ottoman state transformed a Byzantine metropolis into an Ottoman one, starting from a zero point-in terms of the population-in 1430. This paper, based on a metic...
The paper aspires to contribute to the issue of mobility within the Ottoman Empire. The research is based on an analysis of the Ottoman probate inventories of Thessaloniki, the most important port in the Ottoman Balkans in the 18th century. From a total of 4,000 probate inventories, the research focuses on a sample of more than 600 cases of both Sa...
By examining the fortunes of the 57 richest Muslims in Thessaloniki in the eighteenth century, this paper aims to contribute to the discussion on wealth accumulation in Ottoman lands. Basing our research on the probate inventories of the city, we attempt to delineate the profile of the rich in Thessaloniki. Our conclusions underline the role of cre...
The article presents an unknown woman copyist of the 16th century. Euphrosyne from Xanthi was a typical example of a woman copyist of the early modern era in the Greek peninsula. She had developed close relations with the monastic circles of the area, but she was not a nun. We are not aware of her ability in copying, because her unique manuscript h...
