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Chapter 4 refers to alternative representations of the emerging Ottoman historiography, namely biographies of Ottoman officials using fictional narrative devices. The chapter also examines the role of historical fiction in appropriating and interpreting the new awareness of Thessaloniki as (also) an Ottoman city.
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‘η ρωμαϊκή, η οθωμανική και η μελλοντολογική cyberΣαλονίκη ως θέμα και ως σκηνικό λογοτεχνήματος αποδεικνύεται, μέχρι σήμερα, αλεξίλεξη’.
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In 2016, Kakouri published yet another polemical book, The Two Vs [V for Venizelos and V for Vasilias, ‘king’ in Greek], on Greek history, this time giving her version of the clash between the Prime Minister Venizelos and the King Constantine to the favour of the latter.
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The book was first published in 2011 by a small publishing house, Dodoni, and then again in 2013, in a new edition, by another small publishing house, Epikentro (Gogolos 2013). Epikentro specializes in treatises in historiography and political science, in particular from a leftist point of view.
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Reported here: http://www.oanagnostis.gr/το-βιβλίο-του-γόγολου-στην-πόλη (accessed 12 December 2017), from an oral presentation by the author.
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http://www.oanagnostis.gr/το-βιβλίο-του-γόγολου-στην-πόλη (accessed 12 December 2017).
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After the completion of this manuscript, the novel The Legend of Aslan Kaplan by Thomas Korovinis (2018) was published. The action of the novel takes place in 1917, thus after Thessaloniki’s incorporation into the Greek Kingdom but before the 1923 population exchange that considerably changed the ethnic and religious composition of its population. It is not an Ottoman historical novel but a novel which draws heavily on the Ottoman legacy and highlights its rich cultural pluralism.
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Article by C. Christodoulou published in the newspaper Makedonia and reproduced here: http://www.zosimaia.gr/?page=article&id=147 (accessed 11 March 2016).
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The Dönmeh or Ma’min is a Muslim sect descending from Thessalonikean Jews who were followers of Rabbi Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676), who proclaimed to be the Messiah. When he converted to Islam while in Ottoman captivity his followers also converted yet remained close to the Jewish rituals and cultural traditions (Eden and Stavroulakis 1997).
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Christodoulou duly references Mazower and other English-, French- or Greek-language secondary literature.
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Willert, T.S. (2019). Cultivating Osmanalgia: Intersections of History and Fiction in Thessaloniki. In: The New Ottoman Greece in History and Fiction. Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93849-3_4
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