Ειδήσεις για την Ελληνική κοινότητα της Προύσας (15ος-17ος αι.)
Part of : Δελτίο Κέντρου Μικρασιατικών Σπουδών ; Vol.7, 1988, pages 9-50
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The Greek community of Bursa (15th-17th centuries)
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Some new literary and documentary sources permit us to complete therather scarce pieces of information heretofore available about the Greek communityof Bursa during the 15th-17th centuries. More specifically, these newhistorical sources, edited and commented in this paper, are: 1) A register ofsubscribers to the Holy Sepulchre, dated from the years 1565-1567, and includingsome 57 subscribers from Bursa (Cod. Hierosol.-Patriarc. 496). 2) Twoliturgical texts (synaxaries) composed by the well known scholar Manuel Corinthios(15th/16th century), and referring to two —unknown so far— Greekneo-martyrs coming from Bursa (Cod. Athon. - Iviron 512). 3) Two lettersdated from Bursa, 1565, and addressed to a certain Stathis Karamanlis inRome (Cod. Vatic, gr. 2124).The information deriving from the above mentioned texts —in combinationwith that of the already published sources— refer mainly to the demographicfluctations of the Greek population of Bursa during the early post-Byzantine era, to the orthodox bishopric of Bursa, to the ethnic compositionof the Christian population of the town, and to various events relating to thehistory of the Greek community of Bursa during the period under consideration.In treating of these questions, some more general problems are alsodiscussed, such as the islamization of Christian populations of Asia Minor, theso-called Gelali rebellion in late 16th and early 17th centuries, the migratorymovement from Greece proper to Asia Minor, the massive immigration ofArmenians from eastern and central Anatolia westward during the first halfof the 17th century.
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