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Institutions: The British Embassy at Ankara, a good overview of the history of the British in Turkey & a newspaper article on the history of the Turco-British relations. The Anglican church at Alsancak, Izmir St John the Evangelist. Crimean memorial Anglican church in Istanbul - Cannon Ian Sherwood The Catholic St. Rosario church in Alsancak, Izmir The Baptist Church of Buca, Izmir, the former Anglican church of All Saints - web site. Venetian Museum – Della Rocca Barozzi - Naxos island, Greece - photos Documents pertaining to the Italian Consulate in Istanbul held at the Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Centre The Great Diary Project Alex Med: The Alexandria and Meditteranean Research Centre  Historical The story of Maltese migrations The diaries of Gertrude Bell, who paid 3 visits to Smyrna meeting with the Levantines. Chios and beyond, families and stories & forum Dragomans’ career change: change of status in some families connected with the British and Dutch embassies at Istanbul 1785-1829 – Alexander H. de Groot – Department of Turkish studies University of Leiden, Holland The Jews of Smyrna - research article Galata and Pera 1: A Short History, Urban Development Architecture and Today - Afife Batur Cyrus Hamlin and the Founding of Robert College. “Ghiaour Smyrna” Cultural Dialogues of the Encounter between British Mercantile Communities of Smyrna and Bournabat and Local Ethnicities in the 18th to Early 20th Century - Susan Heuck Allen - Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Providence College, Rhode Island. TB, a Levant Company Factor on Pilgrimage, 1669 - Jonathan Picarsic The diary of Samuel Medley, butler to the Earl of Kinnoull, British ambassador to Constantinople, covering the dates 16 October, 1733 to 9 November, 1736 Concept of Westernisation and the role of foreign architects in 19th century Ottoman architecture – Ayşe Nadir History of the British colony at Smyrna by Hyde Clarke - 1862 Ambassador Morgenthau’s story, memoirs of the American ambassador in Istanbul between 1913-16. The Levant Company of Smyrna - London Illustrated News, 1915 British Merchants at Alexandretta, 17th-18th Centuries - Major I. E. Gray - Genealogists’ Magazine, March 1945, vol 9, no:12 ‘Boudja past and present’ - Hilda Voltera Barff - ‘Candlesticks’ Izmir Anglican church magazine, winter 1951-52 Levantins - French Wikipedia article - ‘babelfish’ translation to English effort Ottoman official attitudes towards American missionaries - Çağrı Erhan - research paper, Yale university Smyrna in the seventeenth century - Blackwood magazine, vol CCXII July/Dec 1922- A.C. Wratislaw ‘Bosphorus Germans’ The marble sarcophagus cover of Sir William Hussey, images Gli Italiani a Smirne nei secoli XVIII e XIX [The Italians in Smyrna during the 18th and the 19th centuries] - Marie-Carmen Smyrnelis La Collectivita Italiana di Smirne [The Italian colony of Smyrna] - Livio Missir de Lusignan The million dollar bet (includes impresssions of Buck Whaley’s visit to Smyrna and Constantinople on his way to Jerusalem for a wager) - John Brinton, 1967 - Saudi Aramco world magazine on-line archive An American Judge in Egypt: Jasper Yeates Brinton - William Tracy, 1970 - Saudi Aramco world magazine on-line archive Italian-speaking communities in early nineteenth century Tunis - Alessandro Triulzi, 1971 The Construction of the Smyrna-Aidin Railway in Southwestern Anatolia, 1856-1866 - Francisco Javier Valenzuela, 1975 The Russells of Aleppo - John M. Munro, 1982 - Saudi Aramco world magazine on-line archive The Bonfils Story - William H. Rockett, 1983 - Saudi Aramco world magazine on-line archive A College on the Bosporus - Malcolm P. & Marcia R. Stevens, 1984 - Saudi Aramco world magazine on-line archive Vincentian Missions in the Islamic World - Charles A. Frazee, 1984 European Views of Early 19th Century Izmir - Reinhold Schiffer, 1986 İzmir Basınında Levantenler (XIX. Yüzyıl’in İkinci Yarısı [Levantines featured in the Izmir Press in the second half of the 19th century] - Şerife Yorulmaz, 1988 - segment Orientalist Travelers - Michael Simpson, 1989 - Saudi Aramco world magazine on-line archive The Ethnic Structure of Galata - Eldem Edhem, Biennual Istanbul, 1992 Smyrna in 1821: A Russian View - Theophilus C. Prousis, 1992 Belgians of Egypt -Samir Raafat - Egyptian mail, 1995 Les Arméniens catholiques de Smyrne aux XVIII et XIXème siècles - Marie-Carmen Smyrnelis, Revue du Monde Arménien Moderne et Contemporain, Société des Etudes Arméniennes, Paris, 1995-96 Art and diplomacy in Ottoman Constantinople - Philip Mansel, 1996. The “Arabick” Interest of the Natural Philosophers in Seventeenth-Century England - The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/1997; Saliba, George. The West and the Middle East - Bernard Lewis - Foreign Affairs v. 76 (Jan./Feb. 1997) p. 114-30 From Smyrna to Stewartstown, Ireland: A numistatist’s epigraphic notebook - a study of the work of Henry Perigal Borell (1795-1831) by David Whitehead - 1999. Archives for the Protestant Cemetery of Feriköy - Mr Stier: The cultural Attaché, German Consulate, Taksim, Istanbul, 1999 Struggles over the shore: building the quay of Izmir (1867-1875) - Sibel Zandi-Sayek, 2000 A Levantine life: Giuseppe Donizetti at the Ottoman court - Emre Aracı, 2002 ‘The Cultural Contributions of the Levantines of Izmir’ - İnci Kuyulu Ersoy, 2002 The Bailo in Constantinople: Crisis and Career in Venice’s Early Modern Diplomatic Corps - Eric R. Dursteller, 2002 The Role of the Ottomans and Dutch in the Commercial Integration between the Levant and Atlantic in the Seventeenth Century - Mehmet Bulut, 2002 Smyrne à la fin de l’Empire Ottoman un cosmopolitism si voyant - Hervé Georgolin (vol. 67 Cashiers de la Méditeranée - 2003) - English summary “The Ambassador, the Sultan and the Artist, an Audience in Istanbul” - archive information on an exhibition in Holland held in 2003 of the relationship between the Dutch envoy Cornelis Calkoen, the Sultan Ahmed III, ruler of the Ottoman Empire, and the painter the Frenchman Jean Baptiste Vanmour. Ottoman Postal and Telegraph Services in the last quarter of the nineteenth century - Ayşegül Okan, 2003 English Dragomans and Oriental Secretaries: The Early Nineteenth Century Origins of the Anglicization of the British Drogmanat in Constantinople - G.R. Berridge - Diplomacy and Statecraft, volume 14, Dec. 2003, number 4, Frank Cass Journal, London Cosmopolitan imperialists and the Ottoman port cities: conflicting logics in the urban social fabric - Malte Fuhrmann, University of Berlin (vol. 67 Cashiers de la Méditeranée - 2003) Coexistences et réseaux de relations à Smyrne aux XVIII et XIX siècles - Marie-Carmen Smyrnelis (vol. 67 Cashiers de la Méditeranée - 2003) Merchantile gentelman and inquisitive travellers: constructing the natural history of Aleppo - Janet C.M. Starkey - 2004 Istanbul’s Vanished City of the Dead: The Grand Champs des Morts - Brian Johnson, 2005 Development of railways in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey - Master’s Thesis, Sena Bayraktaroğlu, 2005 The Logic of the Ottoman Capitulations - Timur Kuran, 2005 Forgetting the Smyrna Fire - Biray Kolluoğlu Kırlı, 2005 The Man Who Put His Signature On Izmir: Raymond Charles Péré - Cenk Berkant, 2006 A short history of the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) in Turkey - Rıfat N. Bali, 2006 Urban Transfomation of Ottoman Port Cities in the Nineteenth Century: Change from Ottoman Beirut to French Mandatory Beirut - thesis by Pelin Kihtir Öztürk, 2006 Venetian Consuls in Egypt and Syria in the Ottoman Age - Maria Pia Pedani, 2006 A study of Ottoman Modernisation on the City: The Sixth Municipal District of Istanbul (1858-1877) - Master’s Thesis, N. Işık Demirkan, 2006 Levantine Heritage in Izmir - Onur İnal, MA Thesis, 2006 La présence culturelle française dans l’Empire ottoman à l’âge de la compétition coloniale en Europe (1870-1914) - Paul Dumont (Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg), 2006 The Tangled Ends of an Empire: Ottoman Encounters with the West and Problems of Westernization — an Overview - Engin Deniz Akarlı, 2006 Comparison of the Turkish and European Quarters of Izmir of the nineteenth century - Master’s Thesis, Mustafa Demiralp, 2006 A historical panaroma of an Istanbul neighbourhood: Cihangir from the late Nineteenth century to 2000s - Binnaz Tuğba Sasanlar, 2006 Les Greco-Catholiques à Istanbul - Fr. Ange Michel, 2007 Bedlam in Beirut: A British Perspective in 1826 - Theophilus C. Prousis, 2007 Between stumbling and fall towards insolvency: The endeavours of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century - MA Thesis, Ekrem Karademir, 2007 Information about the Greek educational institutions of Smyrna - George Vassiadis, 2007 Remembering Smyrna / Izmir: Shared History, Shared Trauma - Leyla Neyzi - 2008 Sports activities of English in Izmir (last of 19th century, beginning of 20th century) - Hasan Mert, 2008 The German involvement in Ottoman economic development: banking, railways and other investments, 1888-1914 - MA Thesis, Halil Ege Özen, 2008 The reverberating space of Izmir: Levantines interpenetrating homes - Selin Ayşe Kaner, Thesis, 2008 The Fearless and Self-reliant Servant: The Life and Times of Sir Alfred Biliotti (1833-1915), and Italian Levantine in British Service - David Barchard, 2008 Communal Relations in Izmir / Symrna, 1826-1864: As seen through the prism of Greek-Turkish Relations - N. Feryal Tansuğ, 2008 A Delve into Displacement: Who imagines the Levantine identity? - Nikola Haddad-Edizel, 2009 Glass Bridges: Cross-Cultural Exchange between Florence and the Ottoman Empire - Reena Devi, University of Edinburgh, 2009 19. yüzyıl’da Amerikan Birleşik Devletleri’nin İzmir’deki konsolosluk faaliyetleri [Activities of the American consulate of Smyrna in the 19th century] - thesis by Onur Kırlı, 2009 Metamorfosi Urbane Mediterranee Salonicco e Smirne: costruzione e ricostruzione delle identità [Urban Mediterranean transformation in Salonica and Smyrna: Construction and reconstruction of identity] - Emiliano Bugatti, 2009 Interpreting Dragomans: Boundaries and crossings in the early modern Mediterranean - E. Natalie Rothman, 2009 Mersin Levanten Yapıları Üzerine Bir İnceleme [A study on Levantine buildings of Mersin] - thesis by Gülizar Açık Güneş, 2010 Down and out on the quays of Izmir: ‘European’ musicians, innkeepers, and prostitutes in the Ottoman port-cities - Malte Fuhrmann, 2010 Apparition et développement de la presse francophone d’Istanbul dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle - Seza Sinanlar Uslu, Université Technique de Yildiz, 2010 The building of Istanbul docks 1870-1910: Some new entrepreneurial and cartographic data - Vilma Hastaoglou-Martinidis, 2010 How to research archives in a Levantine context - Craig Encer, 2010 French Direct Investments in the Ottoman Empire Before World War I - V. Necla Geyikdağı, 2011 Cityscapes and Modernity: Smyrna Morphing into Izmir - Biray Kolluoğlu Kırlı, 2011 Nature of Levantine Identity: an interview - Axel Corlu, 2011 So who is a Levantine? A Layman’s Primer to Identity, Fiction, and Fact - Axel Corlu, 2012 Freemasonary in eighteenth-century Izmir? A critical analysis of Alexander Drummond’s travels (1754) - Maurits H. van den Boogert, 2012 A Modern Idea of Town: the Istanbul Pera-Beyoğlu District from Late Ottoman Period to 1930s (contribution summary to the Istanbul city portrait international conference, 2012) - Emiliano Bugatti 19th Century Painted Trays from Museum and Private Collections in Greece and Turkey - Dr. Myrto Hatzaki and Flavia Nessi Yazitzoglou, 2012 History of the St. Antonio Hospital in Izmir - Linda Tito, 2012 Hotel Huck Smyrna: Outstanding Hotel of the Glorious Port-City - Ali Özkan, 2012 Sydney La Fontaine’s Carpet Warehouse and Depot - Taylan Zeybek, 2012 Smyrna Rest: The Birth of the Greek Evangelical Association in a Coffee House in Alsancak (1880-1913) - Funda Adıtatar, 2012 The story of the Izmir - Aydın Railway and the Walker family - Ali Özkan, 2013 Producing Pera: A Levantine family (Vallaury) and the remaking of Istanbul - Ottoman History Podcast, no: 90 - Nilay Özlü, 2013  Genealogical / Testimonial The Maltass & related Whittall, La Fontaine, De Cramer etc. family trees ‘I met a Turk’ by Katherine Creon Wilkin / Wilkinson etc partial family tree Aliotti family - photos The Joly and Hadkinson family Van Lennep family Cercle du Levant - authored by a descendant of Armenian-Catholic Mirzan family, with good overviews of many Levantine families. Roots web - Whittall, Maltass, La Fontaine etc. D’Andria family history research by Paul Ellis, synopsis of his upcoming book. Maxime Fidao’s recollections of the Smyrna years - segment - Grace Williamson’s diary of the September 1922 events in Smyrna, and that for the period 1914-20 A Potpourri of Sidelights and Shadows from Turkey – Alexander MacLachlan – 1938, segment of his diary covering his 36 years in Smyrna Ashe family of Boudja Autobiographical sketch by George C. McVittie, astronomer and scientist La Fontaine family Cramer family album Holton family Werry and Fraser family Keun family Langdon family Henry James Hanson Collection (1838-1935), family archives covering 3 generations ‘Tales of an old house and various family origins’ by Helena van der Zee - translated and compiled by Quentin Compton Bishop The Van Lennep Genealogy, Smyrna branch - Henrick van Lennep The national archives of uk and on-line 1901 census records - sample returns The reports of the Rev. Charles Dobson on the 1922 events of Smyrna Curriculum Vitae of Fernando Paolo Aliotti Un document Grec, écrit avec des caractèrs Latins, de la famille Missir - Livio Amedeo Missir, 1967 On Turkey as I knew it - Honorine Gout (1883 - 1986) The “de Andrias”, One specific branch of the “d’Andrias” - Jean-François de Andria, 2010 Barry family - information Imperiale family - information Rivans & Hadaway family information The big house history revealed - Caroline Zambrano (Steinbuchel) in 1994 Henri Zipcy (1873-1950) by Michèle Alfonsi translated to English by descendant Catherine Saiko Ghisi family Badetti family The Story Cooper / Lombardo / Faraon families of the Levant Levante family Morier family in Smyrna and in Constantinople during the late 18th and early 19th centuries - Henry McKenzie Johnston Hoyland and Heald families of Constantinople Cadoux and De Hochepied families of Smyrna Saalmüller & Bonfils family of Lebanon portraits Sykes family of Panderma [Bandırma] Procter family of Constantinople - Francesca Sorgato, 2012 Icard family of Izmir Seager family of Bebek The Story of Charles Missir, 1869-1927, Smyrna - Marian Verkerk, 2012 The Story of the Harty family of the Constantinople- Phyllis ‘Les’ Wells (nee Harty), 2012 Bon family of Izmir Notes on Susan Maltass - Sheila Thomas, 2013 Arachtingi, Missir etc. families  Smyrna heritage Edward Whittall Garden, Bornova - Brian Giraud The Tomb of Ludwik Michal Pac in St. Polycarp Church Ismeer, or Smyrna, and its British hospital in 1855, by a lady - Martha Nicol St. John’s the Evangelist Church in Izmir - Ft Ron Rogers, 1999 The gradual loss of Levantine identity - Alex Tahinci, 2000 A Survey of the Bornova Anglican Cemetery in Izmir, Turkey - Sally Gallia, 2000 Cultural Heritage: A Case Study of The Third Big City of Alsancak, İzmir, Turkey - Malike Özsoy, 2009 History of Yachting in Turkey - Brian Giraud, 2010 The Big House of Bornova, French version, Turkish version - Nedim Sönmez, 2010 The Story of the Edmund Giraud House, Bornova - Brian Giraud, 2012 Turkey: Catching Up with the Last of the Levantines - Rena Effendi, 2012 Analysis of the building history of the Agia Fotini Church by Okan Çetin, 2012 Antoine Pasquale hat  Church registry listings Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records of the British Chapel, Smyrna - Turkey 1795 - 1832 The registers of the Smyrna Anglican Chaplaincy (1799-1840) held at the Manuscripts Section of Lamberth’s Palace, London  Database listings List of British Consular Officials Turkey (1581-1860) (v.3) - David Wilson, 2011 The listing of the Consuls of Çanakkale (v.4) - Graham Lee, 2011 The listing of the Consuls of Gallipoli (v.4) - Graham Lee, 2011 Listing of people who gave their birthplace as Smyrna, Turkey on the 1851 – 1901 UK censuses, Joyce Cully, 2011 Listing of a sample of Births, deaths and marriages in Smyrna (1864-1965) obtained from British newspapers, Joyce Cully, 2010 The Adami Group transcription of Maltese genealogical records The Dutch Historical Manuscripts Commission online database for the Levant trade 1590-1826 (six volumes of the Sources to the Levant Trade published between 1910 and 1966 each about 600 pages) - info Postal forwarding agents by cities (including some in the Levant) in the 19th century Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşiv Rehberi [Central Ottoman Archives register] Vincentian Catholic Archives - Salonica, St. Benoit, Istanbul 1583-1932: Catalogue F. GORLIN cm, Catalogue F-X. LOBRY cm, Middle East. Maltese surnames used at the Ionian Islands, part of an exhibition organised by Spyros Gauci, secretary of the Catholic Archibishop of Corfu, 2012  Historical trade Carpet trade in Smyrna The story of licorice trading History of the Oriental carpet manufacturers - old image Opium trade and the Dutch community of Izmir, 1820-1940, a review 1906 British Consular Report on Trade in Smyrna - segment History of the Ottoman bank - Ottoman bank archives and research centre The beginning of Dutch navigation and trade with the Levant - Daniel Koster Making Business between the Atlantic and Levant during the mercantilist ages - Mehmet Bulut England, the Ottomans and the Barbary Coast in the late sixteenth century - Dr Christine Woodhead Economic History Blog Capitulations and Negotiations: The Role of the Venetian Consul in Early Ottoman Egypt - Yutako Horii The Imperial Ottoman Bank: Actor or Instrument of Ottoman Modernization - Edhem Eldem Ottoman Financial Integration with Europe: Foreign Loans, the Ottoman Bank and the Ottoman Public Debt - Edhem Eldem Travelling to Jerusalem; TB, a Levant Company Factor on Pilgrimage, 1669 - Jonathan Picarsic - Seminar paper for the Colorado state university Anglo-French rivalry in the Levant from 1583 to 1612 - Arthur Leon Horniker - The Journal of Modern History, 1946 Some Aspects of English Trade with the Levant in the Sixteenth Century - T.S. Willan, 1955 The social basis of English commercial expansion, 1550-1650 - Robert Brenner (The Journal of Economic History) - 1972 The European merchants in Angora - R. D. Barnett - Anatolian studies annual academic journal 1974 The Role of British Capital in the Economic Development of Western Anatolia, 1850-1913 - Orhan Kurmuş, phd thesis, 1974 A Gift for the Sultan - Peter English, 1983 - Saudi Aramco world magazine on-line archive The history of the British Chamber of Commerce of Turkey - Desmond Whittall, 1987 Conditions of Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean: An Appraisal of Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Documents from Aleppo - R. Murphey, 1990 Trade practices in Aleppo in the middle of the 18th century: the case of a British merchant - Elena Frangakis-Syrett, 1991 A late eighteenth-century Austrian attempt to develop the Red Sea trade route - Middle Eastern Studies; 4/1/1994; Crecelius, Daniel. Commerce in the Eastern Mediterrenean from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries: The city-port of Izmir and its hinterland - Elena Fangakis-Syrett, 1998 The Profit Tax Rolls of Non-Ottoman Subjects at Izmir - Mübahat S. Kütükoğlu, Turkish historical society bulletin, December 1999. The economic activities of Ottoman and Western communities in eighteenth century Izmir - Elena Fangakis-Syrett, 1999 Ottoman Perceptions of the Capitulations 1800-1914 - Feroz Ahmad, Journal of Islamic Studies, 2000 Belgium in the Ottoman Capital, From the Early Steps to ‘la Belle Epoque’ - part 1, part 2, 2000 Making of an Ottoman port: The quay of Izmir in the nineteenth century - The Journal of Transport History - Mar 2001 - Elena Fangakis-Syrett Public space and urban citizens: Ottoman Izmir in the remaking, 1840-1890 - thesis by Sibel Zandi-Sayek, 2001 The Danish Flag in the Mediterranean Shipping and Trade, 1747-1807 - Dan H. Andersen - University of Copenhagen 2001 php thesis Beyond the Northern invasion: the Mediterranean in the seventeenth century, Past and Present, 174, 41-70 - Molly Greene, 2002 - summary Russian Trade Prospects in Smyrna: An 1812 Consular Report - Theophilus C. Prousis, 2003 Risky Business: Russian Trade in the Ottoman Empire in the Early Nineteenth Century - Theophilus C. Prousis, 2005 The Dutch Merchants and their activities between the Atlantic and Levant during the mercantilist ages - Mehmet Bulut, 2006 Ottoman Imports in the Eighteenth Century: Smyrna (1771–72) - A. Mesud Küçükkalay & Numan Elibol, 2006 Class and cosmopolitanism: the historiographical fortunes of merchants in Eastern Mediterranean ports - Athanasios Gekas, 2009 The Case of Currants: The Levant Company Monopoly as a Stimulus for Bristol’s Illicit Trade 1590-1666 - Charlie Gent, 2010. A Business Alla Turca? Levant Trade and the Representation of Ottoman Merchants in Eighteenth Century European Commercial Literature - Mathieu Grenet, 2011 Corporate Identity and Entrepreneurial Initiative: the British Levant Company in the Ottoman Empire (1790s-1820s) - Dr. Despina Vlami, 2012  Archive trade catalogues Oriental Carpet Manufacturers The C.J. Giraud company founded in 1914 by Charlton James Giraud (1869-1955) Indicateur Commerciales - Smyrna trade registry of 1896, 1898-1899 and 1920 Indicateur des Professions Commerciales & Industrielle de Smyrne, de l’Anatolie etc. - Smyrna trade registry of 1895 (3rd year) Annuaire Oriental du Commerce de l’industrie, de l’administration et de la magistrature pour Turquie, Russie, Greece, Roumanie, Bulgarie par Cervati Frères & Cie, 1891 Indicateur Égyptien: Administrative et Commercial, 1897 1888 Calendar & Smyrna Guide (in Greek translated to English) - arrangement according to profession, George Poulimenos, 2011 Adnan Bilget ‘Son Yüzyilda İzmir Şehri: 1849-1949’ [Izmir in the last century: 1849-1949], 1949 - sample Lettercovers Norwich Union archives  Photographic archives Pascal Sebah’s (1823-1886) photos of the Levant The Blatchford Collection of Photographs at the American University of Beirut, including those of Rubellin, Bonfils Chusseau Flaviens - active 1890s-1910s University of Pennsylvania Library photo archive collection The US Library of Congress photo collection - Abdul-Hamid II Collection (list view) Middle East Image Archive The Fouad Debbas Collection Gertrude Bell Archive Thessaloniki 1900-1930  Conference / workshops (date order) Izmir au miroir des voyageurs français et de l’histoire - Smyrne, la France et Malte au XVIIIe siècle - Alain BLONDY (Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)) - audio web site ‘Izmir and France (1600-1900) - 3 centuries of privileged relations’ - in French [info in Turkish] - French Cultural Centre, Izmir, Turkey 18-19-20 Oct. 2006 ‘The Italians of Istanbul and the Italian Labour Society of Mutual Aid, representative nucleus of the Comunity. From the nineteenth-century reforms (Tanzimat) to the Turkish Republic (1839-1923)’, Casa d’Italia, Istanbul, 18-19-20 Oct. 2006 - in Italian with simutaneous Turkish translations, Click for details here: The Late Ottoman Port Cities and Their Inhabitants: Subjectivity, Urbanity,and Conflicting Orders’, directed by Malte Fuhrmann & Vangelis Kechriotis, 22-24 March 2007, 8th Mediterranean Research Meeting Christians Missionaries in the Middle East: Re-Thinking Colonial Encounters, North Carolina State University on May 4 & 5, 2007 Migration and Urban Institutions in the Late Ottoman Reform Period, May 10-11, 2007 - Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin Precarious neighborhood: Interconfessional Relations in Southeastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean 1854-1923: Local Constraints and International Power Games - hosted by the French School of Athens, 26 - 28 September 2007 Constantinople/Istanbul: Destination, Way-Station, City of Renegades, Faculty Weekend Seminar at the Folger Shakespeare Library Washington, DC, 28-29 September, 2007 Italian Architects in Southern and Eastern Mediterranean: the role of Italians in the South of the Mediterranean and North Africa - Alex-Med (The Alexandria & Mediterranean Research Center), Alexandria, Egypt, 15-16 November, 2007 - (in association with the ‘Architectures modernes en Méditerranée groupment de recherche international’) The Minorities of Cyprus: Past, Present and Future - 24 & 25 November 2007 - Cyprus College , Nicosia Cosmopolitanism in the Ottoman Empire and Beyond - Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar, Oct 29 2007 - June 16 2008, ZMO-EUME-Colloquium, Berlin Cognitive approaches to the concept of food in the Mediterranean cultures, Girne American University, Cyprus, an international symposium - 7th – 8th May 2008 Europe and Turkey in the Eighteenth Century: Annual Conference of the German Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (DGEJ), October 9-11, 2008, Bonn Migrant Communities and Urban Space in the Mediterranean ports, 17th-19th centuries - 10th International Conference on urban History, Ghent 1st-4th September 2010 Colloquium on ‘Mediterranean Cities: Antiquity as Future?’ - Mersin, October 20-22, 2011 - programme: basic - detailed Beit Ghazaleh Research Project, Aleppo, 2010-11 report Photographic and documentary exhibition on ‘Smyrna of the Greeks’ (July 5 - August 26 2012) at the National History Museum, Athens, Greece - examples of exhibits: ‘Yaşamak, İnşa Etmek, Korumak: Şehirlerin Sorunları’ [To live, to construct, to preserve: A city’s problems] - Symposium organised by the French Cultural Institute, 12 - 16th November 2012, Izmir - video of opening presentation by Marie Carmen Smyrnelis ‘International Symposium on Alsancak: Past, Present and Future of a District of Friendship between Communities and Religions’ - Izmir Meetings of Archaeology and Cultural History no: 1, November 28, 2012 - info: - programme: ‘Smyrna: The Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City 1900-1922’, 28th January - 10th February 2013, the Hellenic Centre of London with a photographic exhibition held earlier in the year at the Benaki Museum in Athens and screenings of the documentary film by Maria Iliou with the same title. In addition, Friday 8 February, Great Hall, Hellenic Centre: ‘Smyrna’s Living Heritage’, George Vassiadis talk about the Station Square, a surviving district of Old Smyrna. George Galdies and George Poulimenos, authors of A Lexicon of Smyrneika together with Alex Baltazzi, present the only dictionary of Smyrna’s historic Greco-Levantine dialect, written in Frangohiotika and translated into English, Turkish and Greek - Hellenic Centre Events flyer - Smyrna events programme - press release - video of presentation. Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda ve modern Türkiye’de İtalyan inşaatçılar ve mimarlar, 1780-2000 [The Italian developers and architects of Ottoman and Modern Turkey, 1780-2000] - 8-9 March 2013 Italian Cultural Centre, Istanbul and 10 March 2013 Boğaziçi University - details: - programme / in Turkish: Sociétés urbaines méditerranéennes et levantines. Histoire et anthropologie - Institut interdisciplinaire d’anthropologie du contemporain, Paris - Jan - June 2013 H-Net discussion networks on Turkey & the Levant & the Mediterranean  Video presentations ‘From Indifference and Contempt to Love and Hate. The Perception of ‘Franks’ in Ottoman Culture’ - Edhem Eldem, Bogazici University, 2007 Achielleas Chatziconstantinou giving his speech on the occasion of the Levantine Symposium held in Izmir on the 3rd November, 2010 on the subject: ‘The image of the Levantine as Portrayed in the late 19th Century Travel Guides’. George Poulimenos giving his speech on the occasion of the Levantine Symposium on the subject of ‘Captain Miniotis’s Memoirs’, on the 3rd November 2010. Eda Kaçar giving her speech on the occasion of the Levantine Symposium on the subject of ‘A United Family from Three Roots: Belfante, Catoni and Beard’, on the 3rd November 2010. Willem Daniels giving his speech on the occasion of the Levantine Symposium held in Izmir on 3rd November 2010. The title of his speech was: ‘The Vicissitudes of an expat family: The De Jonghs, 1812-1954’ - 3 November 2010. Dr Emre Aracı lecture on "The Ottoman Waltz: Tracing the history of the Turkish court's passion for the music of Europe", 22nd March 2011. Philip Mansel lecture on “What is a Levantine City? From Smyrna to Izmir”, based on his latest book, 4th May 2011. 2005 video documentary productions by Ragıp Taranç and Gülnaz Saraçoğlu; and Yrd. Doç. Dr. Dilek İmançer 2011 video documentary by Srdan Segaric for Croatian TV, on the “Croatians on the Bosphorus”. The Italians of Egypt - Documentary, 80 minutes. Directed & Edited by: Sherif Fathy Salem, 2011 - trailer There are a few archived web newspaper articles in worthy of note here, some of the Turkish ones with translation provided here. In order of date of publication:  Izmir’s Past Revisited through the Old Bornova Houses - Denise Braggiotti, Turkish Daily News, 1 August 1999  İki şehrin levantenleri [Levantines of two cities] - Sibel Arna - Hürriyet 12 July 2003 - translation  Eddie geçmişini İstanbul’da arıyor [Eddie is looking for his past in Istanbul] - Aslı Ulusoy Pannuti - Hürriyet 24/1/2004 - translation  Hatıra defteri sahibini buldu [The diary has found its owner] - Tuba Akyol - Milliyet 12/5/2004  Geçmişten Günümüze Esintiler: Milas Levanten Evleri [Traces of the past today: The Levantine houses of Milas] - Nevzat Çağlar Tüfekçi (Press and public relations officer of the council of Milas) - Bodrum haber 26/10/2004 - translation & photos  Kiliseler ve İzmir [The Churches and Izmir] - Sabri Yetkin (vice deacon of the history department in the 9th September University in Izmir) - Milliyet 19/12/2004  İzmir ve Levanten dünya [Izmir and the Levantine world] - A blog site summarising Daniel Goffman’s book.  Doğu Akdeniz’de liman kentleri (1800-1914) [Port cities of the Eastern Meditterenean] - Ayşen Anadol - blog site reviewing book.  “Ben Izmirliyim” [I am a Izmirian - Mario Sponza interview] - Yeni Asır 25-1-2005.  1729 Sokak, St. Helen Kilisesi [The Roman Catholic church of St. Helena in Karşıyaka, Izmir]  O şimdi emekli [He, Hendrich Dutilh, is now retired] - Milliyet 9/8/2005  Bornova’daki Maltass evini restore edip ailesiyle taşındı - Kocaoğlu’na tarihi ev [Izmir Municipal head, Aziz Kocaoğlu restored the historic Maltass house in Bornova, and has moved in with his family] - Yeni Asır 20 August 2005  Bazıları onlara Levanten diyor [Some call them Levantines] - Sabah 2-10-2005 [contains some incorrect assertions]  Arkaslar bu yıl da ailece rekortmen [The Arcas family are again this year (2006) top tax payers of Izmir, Lucien Arcas the highest, his son Bernard 6th, and daughter Claire 7th] - Milliyet 4 April 2007 Gizli Aristokrasi [Secret Aristocracy] - an article on 3 Levantine families of Izmir, Whittall, Giraud, Aliberti - Marie Claire, September 2010 Fotoğraflarla Levanten İzleri [Traces of Levantines through photographs] - Milliyet 15 December 2010 Izmir Municipality, postulated future projects some supported by Unesco, breakdown - summary - a personal view by Alex Baltazzi: Bavuldan çıkan unutulmus mimar [The forgotten architect to emerge from a suitcase - the files of De Nari] - Radikal, 23-3-2013