Department of History and Archaeology

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Antonis Anastassopoulos was born in Athens in 1969. He studied History and Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He completed his M.Phil. and doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Oriental Studies. He has been teaching Ottoman history at the Department of History and Archeology of the University of Crete since 1999, and is also affiliated with the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas. In January 2010 he taught a cycle of four seminars at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Section des Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, in Paris, and in the spring semester of the academic year 2015-2016 he taught Greek and Balkan History at the Department of History of the Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. He has edited or co-edited five volumes of collected essays, and has published more than 30 articles in academic journals, collective volumes and encyclopaedias.

Research interests: Τhe Ottoman provinces with an emphasis on political relations in the eighteenth century; Islamic tombstones of the Ottoman period; history of water management.

Recent publications:

Antonis Anastasopoulos, ‘The Ottoman Legacy in the Historiography, Literature, and Built Environment of Modern Greece’, in Stefanos Katsikas (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek History (online edition, Oxford Academic, 22 May 2025), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197759523.013.0022, (uploaded 22 July 2025).

Antonis Anastasopoulos, ‘Ο μαχαλάς και το δικαστήριο του καδή. Η συνοικία του Χατζί Αλί Πασά στο Ηράκλειο’ [The town quarter and the kadı court: the mahalle of el-Hac Ali Paşa in Heraklion], in Sophia Kanaki (ed.), Ο μίτος της Αριάδνης. Ξετυλίγοντας την ιστορία της πόλης του Ηρακλείου. Δεύτερος κύκλος – είκοσι χρόνια μετά. Δεκέμβριος 2016-Μάιος 2017 [Ariadne’s thread: unraveling the history of the city of Heraklion twenty years later], Heraklion: Herakleia Protovoulia, 2025, 197-218.

Antonis Anastasopoulos, ‘Επισκόπηση της πρόσφατης βιβλιογραφίας για την Κρήτη των ετών 1821-1898’ [Survey of recent literature on Crete of the years 1821-1898], Cretica Chronica, 44 (2024), 17-29.

Antonis Anastasopoulos, Luisa Andriollo, Cédric Brélaz, ‘Shifting Imperial Policies towards Provincial Elites in the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Balkans and Asia Minor’, Études Balkaniques, 60 (2024), 628-686.

Antonis Anastasopoulos, ‘Η Οθωμανική: μια “μοντέρνα” αυτοκρατορία;’ [The Ottoman: a ‘modern’ empire?], in Anna Machaira, Stratis Bournazos and Leda Papastefanaki (eds), Το πνεύμα, πρωτοξάδελφος του γιακωβινισμού… Κείμενα αφιερωμένα στον Χρήστο Χατζηιωσήφ [The spirit, first cousin of Jacobinism… Texts dedicated to Christos Hadziiossif], Heraklion: Crete University Press, 2023, 733-753.