Greek personal names and the question of personal identification in the late Ottoman Empire: a social historical approach

Ozil, Ayşe (2022) Greek personal names and the question of personal identification in the late Ottoman Empire: a social historical approach. Turkish Historical Review, 13 (3). pp. 399-417. ISSN 1877-5454 (Print) 1877-5462 (Online)

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Abstract

The Ottoman state, Greek communal authorities and Greek individuals used various forms and renditions of Greek personal names across imperial and communal spaces, sometimes simultaneously. Based on how these names were written in Ottoman and Greek documentation, this article focuses on the implications of the variations in personal names to explore Greek personal identification in the late Ottoman Empire. Concentrating on Istanbul and its environs in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the article is concerned with one of the results of increasing literacy and formal education, the growing dominance of modern bureaucracies and efforts for national linguistic formalization. It examines the Ottoman usage of colloquial Greek, practices of linguistic standardization by Greek administrative/literate circles and the intersection of the two practices. The article demonstrates how variations in personal names reflected and also contributed to the shaping of a multiplicity of forms of personal identification for Ottoman Greeks.
Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: community; formal education; imperial bureaucracy; katharevousa/demotic; linguistic standardization; literacy; modernization; Ottoman Greeks; personal names
Subjects: D History General and Old World > DF Greece > DF701-951 Modern Greece
D History General and Old World > DR Balkan Peninsula > DR0401-741.22 Turkey > DR401-419 General
D History General and Old World > DR Balkan Peninsula > DR0401-741.22 Turkey > DR431-435 Antiquities. Social life and customs. Ethnography
D History General and Old World > DR Balkan Peninsula > DR0401-741.22 Turkey > DR556-567 1789-1861. 19th century
D History General and Old World > DR Balkan Peninsula > DR0401-741.22 Turkey > DR568-575 1861-1909. War with Russia, 1877-1878
D History General and Old World > DR Balkan Peninsula > DR0401-741.22 Turkey > DR716-739 Istanbul (Constantinople)
Divisions: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Academic programs > History
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Depositing User: Ayşe Ozil
Date Deposited: 07 Sep 2023 15:32
Last Modified: 07 Sep 2023 15:32
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/47817

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