CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Gioftsios, Kyriakos |
|---|---|
| Title | Between Greek Nationalism and Ottomanism: Contested Loyalties of Ottoman Greeks in the Periodicals of Tanzimat Period (1869-1877) |
| Summary | The modern Greek identity is mostly known for the attachment to the Greek state. However, the identification of the significant number of Greek Orthodox people that used to live in the Ottoman Empire remain unobserved. This study sets the question of the Ottoman Greek identity formation by considering its’ role in the wide prism of the Ottoman imperial space. The thesis argues that during the Tanzimat period in Ottoman Empire started a process of Ottoman Greek identity formation which would intersect both the imperial and the communal levels. The perception of Ottoman Greek identity was mainly developed along with the attitudes of community toward the imperial power centers, Patriarchate and Sultan, and the Greek Kingdom. In order to investigate this identity perception and the common loyalty of Ottoman Greeks, discourse and content analysis of two leading periodicals of that time, Konstantinoupolis and Thraki, were employed. Hence, the main outcome of the research indicates that after the Bulgarian schism, the trans-ethnic Christian solidarity gradually transformed to an Ottoman Greek one. Important finding of the research also shows that in the process of forging an imperial identity for the Ottoman Greeks Anatolia played crucial role as fatherland. |
| Supervisor | Miller,Michael Laurence |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/gioftsios_kyriakos.pdf |
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