"Organosis Konstantinoupoleos" (Organization of Constantinople) |
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The Organization of Constantinople ("Organosis Konstantinoupoleos") was founded in the beginning of 1908. Its founder was Athanasios Nikolaidis in cooperation with Ion Dragoumis. Having its seat in Constantinople (Istanbul) the organization aimed at confronting the Bulgarian national movement in Macedonia and Thrace and at achieving a political coordination of the Greeks in Constantinople. At the same time it promoted a cooperation between the peoples of the Balkans and Asia Minor. The... |
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Economic activities of the Greek-Orthodox of Constantinople in the 19th and 20th century |
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Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople, 1839-1923 |
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The period 1839-1923 marks for the Ecumenical Patriarchate a series of radical changes, which derive from the contemporary Tanzimat reforms, the most important of which was the validation of the General Regulations in 1860, an act which established new balances within the Patriarchate, but also from the conflict between Venizelist and monarchist Greeks during the 20th century. The former conflict established, in the place of the ecumenism, which was consolidated as the prevailing ideology of... |
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One of the most distinguished Phanariot families. After the Independence the family’s main branch settled to Athens. |
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Village on the European shore of the Bosporus with mixed population including Greek Orthodox, Jews, Muslims and Armenians. The Jewish presence in the settlement was important, while the Greek Orthodox population (the only inhabitants of the village until the arrival of Jews and Muslims in the 16th c.) increased considerably in the 19th c. before it finally declined in the 20th c. The Greek Orthodox community maintained schools and several clubs. |
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