Course Content (Syllabus)
Modern History of the Greeks of Anatolia
The objective of the Course is to study the History of the Greeks of Anatolia beginning from the Fall of Constantinople to the early 20th century. Topics to be examined: the economic and political emergence and development of the Asia Minor Hellenism, the historical similarities and dissimilarities/differences between Ionia, Pontus and Cappadocia, the Rum millet during the Tanzimat Reforms, the European Great Powers’ penetration into the Asia Minor, the Young Turks Movement and the minorities’ fate in the Ottoman Empire, the relations between the Greeks and the other ethnic groups/minorities of the Ottoman Empire.
Introduction, Course Topics. Information about the students’ duties, course outline and exams. Optional essay grading. Reference to the importance of the relevant sources and the most significant Archives inland and abroad. Historical Approach.
Particularities and differences between Ionia, Pontus and Cappadocia. Geomorphology. Traffic networks
People. Demographic evolution
The Greek Orthodox communities of Asia Minor west coast and Smyrna
The Greek Orthodox communities of the inland parts of Asia Minor. Special reference to Cappadocia
Pontus and its most important cities
The Reforms (Tanzimat) and the Rum millet
The communities. The Community Regulations. The paradigm of Smyrna
The Rum millet/ “The Unredeemed Greeks” and the independent Greek State
Parallel lives of Christians and Muslim-non Turkish people inside the Ottoman Empire
European presence and penetration into the Asia Minor
The Rum millet and the Young Turks Movement. The Consequences of Balkan Wars and World War I on the Greeks of the East (Anatolia)
The End of the Greek presence in Asia Minor (1922). Greece and her Refugees
Keywords
Asia Minor, Asia Minor Hellenism, Greeks of Anatolia, Ottoman Empire, Rum millet, Uprooting, Exodus