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The paper presents the preliminary results of an ongoing project that combines historical cartographic and economic sources on Cyprus through the employment of geospatial analysis. The main sources are: the 1883 trigonometrical survey of the island by Horatio Herbert Kitchener; the 1572 fiscal survey and 1832/33 property survey by the Ottomans; and the 1931 British agricultural census. The Ottoman and British censuses, different though they are and separated by three and a half centuries, provide vital information on production, economic activity, population, and toponymy. The project correlates this data with the detailed recording of topographical, hydrological, and land use features of the Kitchener map, which constitutes an extremely close depiction of Ottoman conditions given that the transformation of the countryside witnessed during the British colonial period was not yet initiated. This allows the identification of certain constants in the Cypriot environment and landscape. The paper presents the interdisciplinary methodological challenges the project has encountered and proposes a framework for the combination of these different datasets and their analysis in order to better record and understand certain long-term patterns in the Cypriot economy, environment and landscape. It uses viticulture as a case study for the visualisation of data to determine the spatial distribution of vines in the historical long term. Finally, the paper situates its conclusions within broader historiographical discussions on the historical development of viticulture in the Mediterranean.

Greeks had experience of representation and political participation under Ottoman rule. They were also exposed to shifting currents in European thought, in the context of the ‘Greek enlightenment’, study and commercial activity abroad, and revolutionary/Napoleonic conflicts. Both traditions shaped their behaviour when they designed republican institutions in the context of their war of independence from 1821. When they accepted a king from Bavaria as the price for international recognition in 1833, limits were set to their ability to shape their own destiny. Nonetheless, intellectuals continued to synthesize ideas about politics and government for local use, and constitutional revolution in 1843 established a formal context for participatory politics. ‘Democracy’ in Greek did service for both ‘republic’ and ‘democracy’, but, by the time a new revolution prompted a change in dynasty in 1864, the term was being used both to reflect on Greece’s problems and to outline possible solutions.

‘Few spectacles would be more ludicrous than that of an English historian – and, moreover, one manifestly self-incriminated of empirical practices – attempting to offer epistemological correction t...

18. yüzyıl ortalarından 19. yüzyıl ortalarına kadarki dönemde Osmanlı taşrasındaki servet ve iktidarın yeniden dağıtılmasına ilişkin tartışmalara katkı yapmayıamaçlayan bu makalede, üç mahalli seçkin üzerine odaklanılmaktadır: Kıbrıs tercümanı Hadjiyorgakis Kornesios (Acı Yorgaki), muhassıl Hacı Abdülbaki Ağa, Ermeniasıllı tüccar ve aynı zamanda elçilik tercümanlığı yapan Sarkis. Çalışmada, katı birmerkez-çevre ikileminin ötesine geçen analitik kategoriler aranmış, imparatorlukcoğrafyasını daha iyi anlamak ve şimdiye kadar daha çok idari teşkilat üzerindentanımlanan mekânsal tahayyülün ötesine geçmek için alternatif bir yaklaşım denenmiştir. Braudel’in “minyatür kıtalar” kavramı kullanılarak Kıbrıs’taki yalıtılmış mekânolgusunu tasavvur etmek mümkün olmuş, bu sayede daha genel bağlamda ekonomikilişkilerin doğası, üretim biçimleri ve taşradaki artıdeğerin birikimi daha iyi anlaşılabilmiştir. Burada incelenen üç yerel aracı, bu türden bir yaklaşımı araştırmacı içinkolaylaştıran ve hatta teşvik eden ideal vakalar sunmuşlardır., Contributing to the discussions on the reconfigurations of wealth andpower in the Ottoman Empire between the mid-eighteenth and the mid-nineteenthcentury, this article considers the cases of three provincial notables in a provincialsetting: Hadjiyorgakis Kornesios, dragoman of Cyprus; the muhassıl (tax-farminggovernor) Hacı Abdülbaki Ağa; and the Armenian consular dragoman-cum-merchantSarkis. Seeking analytical categories that move beyond a rigid center/province dichotomy, this article makes an initial attempt towards articulating an alternative schemefor understanding imperial space, and move beyond a spatial imagination confined toconventional administrative organization. Utilizing the Braudelian concept of ‘miniature continents’ allows an envisioning of the Cypriot insularity that sheds light on thenature of economic relations, modes of production, and patterns of concentration ofthe rural surplus. The three local intermediaries examined here are ideal case studiesthat can facilitate, or indeed instigate, this sort of inquiry.