Central Committee of Smyrna |
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Communal Organization, Cappadocia |
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The Orthodox communities were organized on the basis of two parallel administrative mechanisms: the provincial administration of the Empire and the Orthodox ethno-religious community (millet). An important role in the case of Cappadocia was played by migration and the resulting parallel operation of community institutions in Cappadocian settlements and the areas where immigrants settled. |
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Conflict within the Greek Orthodox Community of Smyrna (early 19th c.) |
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The Orthodox community of the city of Smyrna was convulsed in 1809-1819 by fierce controversies concerning ideological and social matters. As regards ideology, the supporters of the earlier educational tradition of the city bitterly conflicted with the movement of the Enlightenment emerging at the time in Smyrna. The result was the establishment of the Philological Gymnasion. As regards society, there were controversies between the ‘bourgeois’ social classes, on the one hand, and the guilds and... |
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The oldest club of Smyrna founded in 1770; was an important social institution of the city. |
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Greek Orthodox communities in Ottoman Asia Minor |
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According to the foundation myth of the Kusadasi Orthodox community, the founder of the community was Manolakis Benli Oglou in the mid-18th century; this happened thanks to the special privileges that were given to him. This account bears significant similarity with the story relating the foundation of Aivali (Ayvalik). |
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