Gennadius
Library (Athens)
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Gennadius
is the most efficient research library in Greece. It belongs to "The American School of Classical Studies at Athens." The collection numbers more than 100 thousand volumes and they keep purchasing new publications.
Gennadius formed the best collection in the world of travel accounts on Greece and neighbouring countries.
Gennadius is a closed stack library. You have to fill out the request form and wait for the librarian to bring the material. Photocopies are allowed as long as the book is in good shape. A page of photocopy costs 40 Euro-cents. You can also get the M. Alison Frantz fellowship and have free access to the stacks and make free copies for a year.
Along with very rare books, Gennadius shelters several archival collections that may interest an ottomanist; like those of Tepedelenli Ali Pasha, Athanasios Souliotis (1878-1945), Ion Dragoumis (1878-1920) , Konstaninos Mousouros (1801-1897).
Tepedelenli collection
consists of 1500 public and private documents, about religious, legal, financial, community, administrative and family matters, as well as various military campaigns (1802-20). I have looked at several documents out of curiosity. They are in Greek and the script is very difficult. Fortunately, I was told that XXX Panayotopoulos of KNE is going to publish the documents very soon.
The papers of Mousouros, son-in-law of the Governor of Samos Stephanos Vogoridis and Ottoman ambassador in Athens, consist of official documents relating to state affairs of the Ottoman Empire and of Greece and other European countries, documents pertaining to Samos, letters, correspondence between Mousouros and St. Vogoridis (1838-59) and between P. and K. Mousouros (1841-79), photographs, sketches (25 folders, 5700 documents).
I have found the Souliotis papers most interesting. Along with Ion Dragoumis, Athanasios Souliotis was the founder of a secret Greek organization in the Istanbul of the Young Turk period. 'Organosis Konstantinoupoleos' enrolled most of the Greek MPs in the Ottoman Parliament and played a major role in the affairs of Ottoman Greek communities until WWI.
posted by H. Şükrü Ilıcak
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Address: The Gennadius Library; 61 Souidias Street, GR-106 76 Athens, Greece;
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