1st Edition
Those Who Stayed, 1922 Political Transitions and Minority Strategies of Endurance in the Eastern Mediterranean
Introduction: Minority Forms of Resilience in the Post-Ottoman World
Part 1: Shifting Grounds for Transient Minorities
Chapter 1
Civilising Mission or Reproduction of the Ottoman Governance? Minorities and Greek Imperial Formation in the Occupied Territories of Trabzon and Smyrna (1916-1922)
Lukas Tsiptsios
Chapter 2
Catholic Entrenchment, Political Incertitude and Global Relief in Occupied Istanbul (1918-1923)
Gabriel John Doyle
Part 2: Survival Beyond the State
Chapter 3
Entrenchment of the Armenian Genocide: Memorialisation by the Patriarchate of Jerusalem as Diasporic Identity Politics
Arman Khachatryan
Chapter 4
Enduring a Transition: Cretan Jews in Post-Ottoman Hania
Katerina Anagnostaki
Part 3: Resilience Within the Nation-State
Chapter 5
“Let’s Found the Jewish Secondary School This Year”: A Debate on Schooling and Language in Hellenising Salonika (1926-1928)
Defne Özözer
Chapter 6
The Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Minorities in South Serbia
Klara Volaric
Chapter 7
Economic Nationalism and Non-Muslims in Early Republican Turkey: The Limitations of Exclusion
Semıh Gökatalay
Epilogue
Language of Politics, Politics of Language
Alexis Wick
Biography
Angelos Dalachanis is a Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), based at the Institute of Early Modern and Modern History in Paris. His research focuses on migration, labor and the Greek diaspora in the modern Eastern Mediterranean. He is the author of The Greek Exodus from Egypt: Diaspora Politics and Emigration, 1937–1962 (2017) and co-author of Monde rêvé, monde collectionné: la Méditérannée orientale d’Antonis Benakis (1900-1931) (2025). He co-directs the journal Diasporas. Circulations, migrations, histoire, and co-leads two research projects at the Ecole française d’Athènes on post-Ottoman minorities (with Alexis Rappas) and object circulation (with Mercedes Volait).
Alexis Rappas is Associate Professor of History, and Associate Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Koç University in Istanbul. His research focuses on the impact of European colonialism in post-Ottoman settings. He is the author of the Runciman award shortlisted book Cyprus in the 1930s: British Colonial Rule and the Roots of the Cyprus Conflict (2014). His subsequent research has focused on the entanglement between property and sovereignty in British Cyprus, the Italian Dodecanese and French Mandate Syria. He is in addition co-directing (with Angelos Dalachanis) an Ecole française d’Athènes five-year research project on minorities in the post-Ottoman Mediterranean.
