Patterns of factional strife in Greece and the Eastern Question : the story of Ioannis Velentzas (1821 1840)
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2023
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Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2023.
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Th e p urpose of this t hesis is to investigate how regional networks of political patronage and violence within the Ottoman p rovincial admin- istration in the Peloponnese and Rumeli have adapted to the new politi- cal environment after 1821, and continued to dominate the p olitical do- main in Greece after its independen ce from the Ottoman Empire. Additionally, while aiming to show how the factions that have emerged during the Greek war of independence have been built on personal rela- tionships prior to 1821, this thesis also attempts to show how each of these factions in Greece became entangled with a specific European power, and thus, was indirectly influenced by the broader political devel- opments in post Vienna Congress Europe. This s tudy follows the partic- ular patron client relationship of the two Rumeliot men, Ioannis Ve- lentzas and Ioannis Kolettis throughout the years following the outbreak of the war of independence. The purpose is to explore how the two men have formed their alliance thanks to the violent circumstances p rovided by the war, the process that made Kolettis’s Rumeliot faction labelled as the French party, and ultimately to see how through his relationship with Kolettis, Velentzas’ irredentist foray in 1840 to Ottoman territories could be seen as a scheme desi gned to involve Greece into the politics of the Eastern Question.