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E-mail: kolovos@uoc.gr

Tel.: 28310 77341 

Fax: 28310 77338   

Brief Biography

Elias Kolovos is Assistant Professor in Ottoman History at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete. He was born in Athens in 1971. He studied History and Archaeology in Thessaloniki. He received his Ph.D. from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2000. In his doctoral thesis he dealt with economic and social relations in the rural area of Thessaloniki under Ottoman administration (15th – 16th c.) and more specifically with the role of the Athonite monasteries. From 2002 to 2004 he worked as a researcher in Ottoman History at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation for Research and Technology. In 2006 he taught as a visiting Lecturer at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris and at the University of Boğaziçi in Istanbul. He has published in Greek, English, French and Turkish on peasant history (15th-18th c.), on the history of monasteries under Ottoman administration, and on insular societies in the Ottoman Empire.  

Books

• 2006, H νησιωτική κοινωνία της Άνδρου στο οθωμανικό πλαίσιο: Πρώτη προσέγγιση με βάση τα οθωμανικά έγγραφα της Καϊρείου Βιβλιοθήκης [The Insular Society of Andros in Ottoman Context: A Preliminary Approach based on the Ottoman Documents from the Kaireios Library], Publisher Kaireios Library, Andros
• 2007, edited (with Antonis Anastasopoulos), Ottoman Rule and the Balkans, 1760-1850: Conflict, Transformation, Adaptation, Proceedings of an international conference held in Rethymno, Greece, 13-14 December 2003, University of Crete, Department of History and Archaeology, Rethymno

  Articles

• 1997, «Νέα στοιχεία για την ιστορία του Καθολικού της Μονής Ξηροποτάμου [New Evidence on the History of the Katholikon of Xeropotamou Monastery]», Klironomia 29, 121-153
• 1997, «Osmanlı tahrir defterlerine göre 15. ve 16. yüzyıllarda Selanik [Thessaloniki in the Ottoman Tahrir Registers, 15th-16th c.]», Tarih ve Toplum 168, 7-14
• 2003, « Les documents ottomans de la bibliothèque Kaïreios d’Andros (Grèce) », Turcica 35, 317-321
• 2004, “A Biti of 1439 from the Archives of the Monastery of Xeropotamou (Mount Athos)”, Hilandarski Zbornik 11, 295-306
• 2004, “Reayas and Frenks Before the Gate of the Sultan: The Society of the Island of Andros in 1564 and the Ottoman Central Administration” (in Greek), Agkyra, Bulletin of the Kaireios Library of Andros 2, 55-88
• 2005, “Negotiating for State Protection: Çiftlik-Holding by the Athonite Monasteries (Xeropotamou Monastery, Fifteenth-Sixteenth C.)”, Colin Imber, Keiko Kiyotaki and Rhoads Murphey (eds), Frontiers of Ottoman Studies: State, Province, and the West, I.B. Tauris, London, New York, 197-209
• 2005, «Το Άγιον Όρος και η συγκρότηση της Οθωμανικής Αυτοκρατορίας [Mount Athos and the Formation of the Ottoman Empire]», Tonia Kioussopoulou (ed.), 1453: Η άλωση της Κωνσταντινούπολης και η μετάβαση από τους μεσαιωνικούς στους νεώτερους χρόνους [1453: The Fall of Constantinople and the Transition from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period], Crete University Press, Herakleio, 107-119
• 2005/06, «The Saints in the Sultan’s Dream», Archivum Ottomanicum 23, 205-218
• 2006, «Ο ναχιγιές του Μυλοποτάμου το 1671: τα νέα δεδομένα της οθωμανικής κατάκτησης [The Province of Mylopotamos (Crete): The New Realities of the Ottoman Conquest]», E. Gavrilaki and G. Z. Tzifopoulos (eds), Πρακτικά Διεθνούς Συνεδρίου Ο Μυλοπόταμος από την Αρχαιότητα ως Σήμερα: Περιβάλλον, Αρχαιολογία, Ιστορία, Λαογραφία, Κοινωνιολογία [Mylopotamos from Antiquity to the Present: Environment, Archaeology, History, Folklore, Sociology], vol. VI: Βενετοκρατία-Τουρκοκρατία [Venetian Rule-Turkish Rule], Historical and Folklore Society of Rethymno, 151-173