ENTRY TYPE
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SUMMARY
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 the lower social classes, on the other hand, concerning control over communal matters. |
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