Institute for Mediterranean Studies

Locating, transcribing, translating and commenting of Ottoman constitutional documents of the Principality of Samos

Locating, transcribing, translating and commenting of Ottoman constitutional documents of the Principality of Samos

The aim of the project, which forms part of a wider project of The Hellenic Parliament Foundation for Parliamentarism and Democracy, directed by Sophia Laiou (Ionian University), is to contribute to a forthcoming volume on the constitutional documents of the Principality of Samos (1834-1912).

This action forms part of a wider project of The Hellenic Parliament Foundation for Parliamentarism and Democracy, directed by Sophia Laiou (Ionian University), on the constitutions of the autonomous Principality of Samos (1834-1912). On behalf of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, researcher Marinos Sariyannis located and collected the relevant documents from Istanbul, prepared a full transcription and translation of them, and contributed a chapter on the political vocabulary used in them. The volume is forthcoming by the Hellenic Parliament Foundation.