CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
TWO LETTERS – TWO SEASONS
KAMPOS - IT’S GEOLOGIC STRUCTURE – IT’S RIVERS – TOURLITA’S HILL – THE ANCIENT CASTLE – TIRRINOS – THE LIFE OF KAMPOS
HISTORIC PLACEMENT OF THE VILLAGE - TANTALOS – TANTALIS – NAVLOHON – SMYRNE – THISEOS’S SETTLEMENTS – ANCIENT INSCRIPTION AT MOSQUE – THE REAL MELIS RIVER – HOMER’S CAVE
OTHER ROMAN ERA EPIGRAPH - BYZANTINE ERA – LEMVON ABBEY – ABBEY DOCUMENTS – PRINOVARIS
TURKISH ERA - NAME/APPELLATION OF THE VILLAGE – POPULATION – VARIOUS HISTORIC DATES
LINE TO SMYRNA – BOURNOVAS’S SCALE – BASMAHANES – THE FOUNT OF MOANS – KARAGIORGIS’ TRAGIC CASTLE – THE BRITISH CEMETERY
THE BEAUTY OF BOURNOVA’S WOMEN – THE STATION – RAHMIS’ (MAYOR OF SMYRNA) SON’S KIDNAPPING – OTHER KIDNAPPINGS - THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBORHOOD – CAMEL GAMES
ANGLICAN CHURCH - THE FIRST EUROPEAN HABITATS – THE OLD ARISTOCRATIC NEIGHBORHOOD – VITELAIOS (WHITTALL) FAMILY’S BIG HOUSE
THE MARKET/AGORA – THE BIG FIRE OF 1873 – THE BATHS – THE BIG MOSQUE
LOWER TSAI (ÇAY) - ARMENIAN CHURCH – KASTRAKI - LAMPADITIDES – DELIPETROS – GREEK MAYORS, MEMBERS AND MUHTARS – ALANAKI – THE ANTONIS FAMILY – UPPER TSAI (ÇAY)
PANAGIA CHURCH - LAY READERS – EVANGELISM HOLIDAY – EASTER –PANAGIA’S HOLIDAY
THE GREEK CEMETERY
MASGANAS’ URCHIN – MASGANAS – THE SMALL MOSQUE – VASILARAS – THE TAVERNS – JOHN GRIFFITH
COFFEEHOUSES – LOMVARDO’S – MS. SOFIANOPOULOU –SAINT GEORGE – PROKOPIOU FAMILY – HAVOUZA – THE THEATRE
BOURNOVA TYPES
BOURNOVA’S FESTIVAL
SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION
SPORTS
INDUSTRY – CRAFT – SMALL INDUSTRY AND OTHER PROFESSIONS
CRAFT GUILDS
HUNTING
BOURNOVA’S PROMINENT FOREIGN GUESTS
BOURNOVA’S FIGURES THAT APPEARED IN LATER YEARS
BOURNOVA’S FOREIGN SCHOLARS
BOURNOVA’S HEROES IN 1821
BOURNOVA’S LITERATURE AND FOLKLORE
LIVING IN BOURNOVA
THE LAST YEARS OF GREEK LIFE IN BOURNOVA
NOTE
OVERVIEW AND CORRECTIONS
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Note: Translation kindly provided by the currently Istanbul based student, Sophia Kompotiati from Athens.
