Registering Life in a Multicultural City. Late Ottoman Nicosia

Abstract

The book is a product of the “Ottoman Cyprus” Research Project, which was launched in 2010 as part of the Programm of Ottoman Studies at the Institute of Historical Research (National Hellenic Research Foundation). The priority and main concern is to publish archival material and original studies which deal with topics from the Ottoman period on the island. Volume II2 presents aspects of the history of Nicosia from seven censuses (1839, 1842, 1843, 1884, 1845, 1847-8, 1877). These are included in twelve population registers that have been discovered to date in the Osmanlı Başbakanlık Arşivi (Istanbul) and the National Archives of Kyrenia. They consist partly of a regular population registration system introduced by the Tanzimat Reforms.