Web sites / Blogs / Podcasts

Institutions:

• İzmir Akdeniz Akademisi [Izmir Mediterranean Academy]
• Crimean memorial Anglican church in Istanbul - Cannon Ian Sherwood
• Crimean Memorial Cemetery in Istanbul - Edwin La Fontaine
• The Catholic St. Rosario church in Alsancak, Izmir
• Venetian Museum – Della Rocca Barozzi - Naxos island, Greece - photos
• Documents pertaining to the Italian Consulate in Istanbul held at the Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Centre
• Salt Research Collections - history of the Ottoman Bank
• Alex Med: The Alexandria and Meditteranean Research Centre
• Description of Alexandria
• Livorno delle Nazioni cultural association - Leghorn Merchant Networks Project
• Astene: The Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East
• Pera Museum Istanbul on Google Cultural Institute
• Casa Garibaldi / Società Operaia, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
• Hrant Dink Foundation, Revealing and Advocating the Multi-Cultural Heritage of Anatolia Project Interactive Map Beta Version
• BiblioPera: Integrated 9 libraries Beyoğlu Research Centres Network
• French Institute of Anatolian Studies, Istanbul - own collection of archive book restoration project through crowd funding, 2016
• Cercle du Levant blog
• Edward Whittall Garden, Bornova - Brian Giraud
• EIEAD - European Institute for the EurAsian Dialogue - info - historical article by Leonardo Manzari and Laura Ebreo
• Orient-Institute, Istanbul
• Istanbul Urban Database
• Istanbul’s living libraries
• Nordic Perspectives on the Mediterranean and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1900
• The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Archival Collections
• The Mediterranean Seminar - University of Colorado
• Akdeniz Dünyası Araştırmaları
• French Research Institute of Anatolian Studies online library search
• Istanbul Research Institute online library search
• Istanbul University online library search
• Istanbul Boğaziçi University digital archives
• European Research Library network online search
• Ataturk library, Istanbul
• Middle East Technical University Library online search
• Turkey Council of Higher Education Thesis centre
• SOAS Research Online
• British Library main catalogue
• British Library Newspaper Collections
• Internet Library of Early Journals
• Farabi Digital Library - Ottoman official newspaper etc.
• The National Archives of UK and on-line 1901 etc. census records - sample returns
• Bibliothèques d’Orient
• The New Levant Initiative
• The Feriköy Protestant Cemetery Initiative

Bulletin:

• Nuovo Levantino [Online Italian magazine for Italians of Izmir and region]

Podcasts

• Producing Pera - Ottoman History podcast with Nilay Özlü, 2013
• Dr. Philip Mansel: Friend or foe? The Ottoman Empire and Europe, from Mehmed II to Wilhelm II - Lecture at the Orient-Institut Istanbul, 24 October, 2013
• Galata and the Capitulations - Ottoman History podcast with Fariba Zarinebaf, 2014
• Dr. Carole Woodall: ‘Constan Town’ Jazz: A guide to 1920s Beyoğlu - Lecture at the Orient-Institut Istanbul, 10 November 2014
• Precursors to the Prince, the grand tour in the Ottoman Empire, Dr Philip Mansel, December 2014 - transcript:
• Venetian Physicians in the Ottoman Empire - Ottoman History podcast with Valentina Pugliano, 2016
• Landscapes of the Eastern Question - Ottoman History podcast with Paolo Girardelli, 2016
• German Expatriates in Late Ottoman Istanbul - Ottoman History podcast with Philipp Wirtz, 2016
• Diplomacy and culture at the Ottoman Court, with Tracy Sowerby, Maxwell Hudson, Aneliya Stoyanova, Talitha Schepers, 2017
• Izmir & Thessaloniki: from Empire to Nation-State - Ottoman History podcast with Kalliopi Amygdalou, 2017
• Nationality and Cosmopolitanism in Alexandria - Ottoman History podcast with Will Hanley, 2018
• French Child Ambassadors in the East - Episode 103, 15 minute history, February 2018
• The Incredible Life of Antoine Köpe - Ottoman History podcast with Nefin Dinç, October 2018
• Local Capitalists in the Late Ottoman Levant - Ottoman History Podcast with Kristen Alff, 3 December 2019
• Ottomans, Orientalists, and 19th-Century Visual Culture - Ottoman History Podcast with Mary Roberts, 19 January 2020
• Mementos from Habsburg Life in Ottoman Istanbul - Ottoman History Podcast with Robyn Dora Radway, 5 July 2020
• Travel Images Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire - Ottoman History Podcast with Elisabeth Fraser, 25 August 2020
• Italian Empire and the Dodecanese - Ottoman History Podcast with Valerie McGuire, 13 September 2020

Video Presentations - those more recent:

• Some of them say Levanten to them by Ragıp Taranç and Gülnaz Saraçoğlu and Yrd. Doç. Dr. Dilek İmançer, 2005
• Levant’ın Aynasında Batılı Yansımalar [Western reflection in the mirror of the Levant] Yrd. Doç. Dr. Dilek İmançer, Ege University communications faculty, radio-TV-cinema section, 2005
• Between European and Ottoman: Turn of the 18th Century, Karen Leal, 2010
• Achielleas Chatziconstantinou giving his speech on the occasion of the Levantine Symposium held in Izmir on the 3rd November, 2010 on the subject: ‘The image of the Levantine as Portrayed in the late 19^th Century Travel Guides’.
• George Poulimenos giving his speech on the occasion of the Levantine Symposium on the subject of ‘Captain Miniotis’s Memoirs’, on the 3rd November 2010.
• Eda Kaçar Özmutaf giving her speech on the occasion of the Levantine Symposium on the subject of ‘A United Family from Three Roots: Belfante, Catoni and Beard’, on the 3rd November 2010.
• Willem Daniels giving his speech on the occasion of the Levantine Symposium held in Izmir on 3rd November 2010, entitled ‘The Vicissitudes of an expat family: The De Jonghs, 1812-1954’ - 3 November 2010.
• Dr Emre Aracı lecture on “The Ottoman Waltz: Tracing the history of the Turkish court’s passion for the music of Europe”, 22nd March 2011.
• Philip Mansel lecture on “What is a Levantine City? From Smyrna to Izmir”, based on his latest book, 4th May 2011.
• Video documentary info for Croatian TV, on the “Croatians on the Bosphorus”, Srdan Segaric, 2011
• The Italians of Egypt - Documentary, 80 minutes. Directed & Edited by: Sherif Fathy Salem, 2011 - trailer
• That Alexandria - Documentary, 77 minutes. Directed & Edited by: Sherif Fathy Salem, 2014 - trailer
• Levantine Cosmopolitanism, Myth and Reality -Edhem Eldem (Boğaziçi University)
• Groppi: From Switzerland to Egypt, Swiss TV documentary, 2009 - trailer
• Smyrna quay 1905 project & A Lexicon Of Smyrneika by George Vassiadis, George Poulimenos and George Galdies, 8 February 2013.
• Sir Alfred Biliotti and the end of Ottoman Crete, 1885–1899 by David Barchard, (BIAA) 2016
• Maltese Community of Izmir - Television Malta, February 2016
• In Diverso Stat Humanitas - Doğunun Italyanları [Italians of the East], Berna Aydın, 2016
• Gli Ulimi Levantini - Italiani all’ombra del sultano [The Last Levantines - Italians in the shadow of the Sultan] - Ilario Piagnerelli, Rai, 2017
• The Creation and Transfer of Knowledge: Ottoman Empire to France 1600-1800, Nelly Hanna, Eric Tagliacozzo and Aziz Rana - The Middle East, the Academy, and the Production of Knowledge, 2017
• Aliotti Family album Fernand tells his story (1898-1996), 25 April 2020
• Giovanni Scognamillo – Görsel Hafıza Projesi, (filmed 2005, published 2020)
• İzmir’in son Levantenleri: “Ne et ne balık, arada bir kişiyim” [The last Levantines of Izmir : “Neither meat nor fish, I am somebody in the middle”] - +90 (Deutsche Welle, VOA Türkçe, BBC Türkçe & France 24), 22-12-2020
• Casa Garibaldi. La Società Operaia di Mutuo Soccorso in Costantinopoli [Casa Garibaldi.The Workers' Mutual Aid Society in Constantinople] - Francesca Faiella, 2021

Blogs

• İzmir ve Levanten dünya [Izmir and the Levantine world] - A blog site summarising Daniel Goffman’s book.
• ‘Following Miss Gertrude Bell’ treck 2015, Pat Yale.
• S. Harlow: An American chaplain in Smyrna; the history behind the NATO base.
• Economic History Blog
• Old postcards from the Levant etc. (in German)
• Noisybrain: Jim Scobie’s selfieblog
• From Lancs to the Levant

News articles:

• Izmir’s Past Revisited through the Old Bornova Houses - Denise Braggiotti, Turkish Daily News, 1 August 1999
• Turco-British relations in all dimensions Turkish Daily News, 21 July 2001
• İki şehrin levantenleri [Levantines of two cities] - Sibel Arna - Hürriyet 12 July 2003 - translation
• Eddie geçmişini İstanbul’da arıyor [Eddie is searching for his past in Istanbul] - Aslı Ulusoy Pannuti - Hürriyet 24/1/2004 - translation
• Hatıra defteri sahibini buldu [The diary has found its owner] - Tuba Akyol - Milliyet 12/5/2004
• Geçmişten Günümüze Esintiler: Milas Levanten Evleri [Traces of the past today: The Levantine houses of Milas] - Nevzat Çağlar Tüfekçi (Press and public relations officer of the council of Milas) - Bodrum haber 26/10/2004 - translation & photos
• Kiliseler ve İzmir [The Churches and Izmir] - Sabri Yetkin (vice deacon of the history department in the 9^th September University in Izmir) - Milliyet 19/12/2004
• “Ben İzmirliyim” [I am an Izmirian - Mario Sponza interview] - Yeni Asır 25-1-2005.
• O şimdi emekli [He, Hendrich Dutilh, is now retired] - Milliyet 9/8/2005
• Bornova’daki Maltass evini restore edip ailesiyle taşındı - Kocaoğlu’na tarihi ev [Izmir Municipal head, Aziz Kocaoğlu restored the historic Maltass house in Bornova, and has moved in with his family] - Yeni Asır, 20 August 2005
• Bazıları; onlara Levanten diyor [Some call them Levantines] - Sabah, 2-10-2005 [contains some incorrect assertions]
• Arkaslar bu yıl da ailece rekortmen [The Arcas family are again top tax payers of Izmir this year (2006), Lucien Arcas the highest, his son Bernard 6th, and daughter Claire 7th] - Milliyet 4 April 2007
• Gizli Aristokrasi [Secret Aristocracy] - an article on 3 Levantine families of Izmir, Whittall, Giraud, Aliberti - Marie Claire, September 2010
• Fotoğraflarla Levanten İzleri [Traces of Levantines through photographs] - Milliyet 15 December 2010
• Maltese Survivors of Smyrna, Henry Frendo - The Malta Historical Society, 2010.
• Izmir Municipality, postulated future projects some supported by Unesco, breakdown - summary - a personal view by Alex Baltazzi:
• Levantine businessman boasts world’s most extensive Ottoman postcard collection - Fatih Vural - Turkish News, 30 October 2011
• Benim Levanten’im: Stanley Clarke [My Levantine: Stanley Clarke] - Yaşar Aksoy - Hürriyet, 12-2-2012
• Turkey: Catching Up with the Last of the Levantines - Rena Effendi, Eurasianet.org, 20 April 2012
• Bavuldan çıkan unutulmus mimar [The forgotten architect to emerge from a suitcase - the files of De Nari] - Radikal, 23-3-2013
• The Amateur Levantine Theatre: New generation Levantines continue their ancestors’ tradition - Izmir magazine, issue 21, March-April 2013 - flyers and group photos
• Levantine culture to open to tourism in Aegean - Hürriyet Daily News, 23-7-2013
• İzmir’e demiryolunu ve ışığı getiren İskoçlar [The Scots who brought the railways and lighting to Izmir] - Sabah Pazar, 9-2-2014
• An Exotic Community in the Ottoman Empire: The Levantines - Daily Sabah, 28-3-2014
• Les Derniers Levantins de Turquie - Le Petit Journal, 28-1-2015
• Vivre-ensemble : le modèle « levantin » [Living together: the Levantine model] - Alexandre De Grauwe-Joignon, Aujourd’hui la Turquie, 11-2-2015
• Casa Garibaldi, una storia levantina - LaStampa.it, 28 September 2015
• İzmir’in saklı tarihinin peşinde [In search of the hidden history of Izmir - the research of Andrew Simes] - Tolga Albay, Hürriyet, 23-2-2016
• Interview: Despina Vlami on ‘trading with the Ottomans’, William Armstrong, Hürriyet, 23-4-2016
• The Levantines: Refugees who preferred the East instead of the West - Gila Benmayor, Hürriyet Daily News, 27 September 2016
• İstanbul’da bir İtalyan [An Italian in Istanbul: Miguel Selvelli] - Reportare, Sinan Dirlik, 2-10-2016
• Beyoğlu’nda Levantenler nasıl buharlaştı? [How did the Levantines of Pera fade away?] - Sanatatak, Korhan Gümüş, 3-10-2016
• Beyoğlu’nda bir garip mülkiyet davası [A strange inheritence case in Beyoğlu] - Hürriyet, 30 November 2016
• The Consulate of Malta in Istanbul organizes a get-together for the small Maltese Community in Izmir - Foreignaffairs.gov.mt, 22 February 2017
• Gaziemir’de Tarihi Botanik Bahçesi [The historical botanical garden in Gaziemir] - Akad Haber, 13 April 2017
• Boğaziçi’nin İtalyan mimarları [Italian architects of the Bosphorus] - Şerif Yenen, Hürriyet, 22 May 2017
• Loren Edizel’le Söyleşi: Smyrna’nın İzinde Bir Romancı [Interview with Loren Edizel: A novelist in search of old Smyrna] - Altuğ Akın, İzmir Akdeniz Akademisi Dergisi, No. 1, Yaz 2017
• Ship in a Bottle - Hürriyet Daily News, Aylin Öney Tan, 8 January 2018
• Football passion: Introduced by foreigners became a national pride - Erhan Afyoncu, Daily Sabah, 1 April 2018
• One of Turkey’s Germans: Portrait of the Orientalist Friedrich Schrader - Ceyda Nurtsch, Qantara.de, 22-6-2018
• Les Levantins, vestiges chrétiens de l’Empire ottoman - Mélinée Le Priol, La Croix, 30-8-2018
• How an Ottoman diplomat captured Levantine ‘glitterati’ in caricatures - Giuseppe Mancini, Al-Monitor, 8 January 2019 - images:
• Türkiye’nin son Levantenleri kültürlerini yaşatmaya çalışıyor [The last Levantines of Turkey work to keep their culture alive] - Öncü Şehir, 23-1-2019
• Last Levantines of Turkey working to keep their culture alive - Daily Sabah, 28-1-2019
• Istanbul’s Italian heritage: a legacy of the cosmopolitan past - Jane Akatay, The Guide Istanbul, 22 April 2019
• 1885-1920 yıllarındaki Adalar bu sergide [The Prince’s Islands between 1885-1920 is in this exhibition] - Sözcü, 22 September 2019
• İstanbul’da Bir Fotoğraf Stüdyosunun Hikayesi [The Story of a Photographic Studio in Istanbul], Fabrizio Casaretto - Adalı, 3 October 2019
• Why Picasso continues to inspire Levant, Nazlan Ertan - Al-Monitor, 3 November 2019
• Des Français en Turquie, l’histoire de famille d’une Renaisonnaise - L’aventure par l’écrit, 5 December 2019
• Did You Know? … This Ground-Breaking Turkish Sportsman lived in Tarrytown, Gareth Winrow - River Journal, 10 February 2020
• ‘İzmir Levantenleri’ sergisi APİKAM’da açıldı - Birgün, 11-2-2020
• The Scars of Ottoman San Stefano: Traces of a Contested Past in Istanbul’s Yeşilköy, Gabriel Doyle - Ajam Media Collective, 7 March 2020
• Napolyon’un generali: Kont Louis Michel Pac [The general of Napoleon: Count Louis Michel Pac] - Bedri Cumhur Doğu, 11-5-2020
• Smyrna: The Essence of my Spirit, Greg Vickas, 1-9-2020
• Forbes Köşkü “Levanten Kültür Merkezi” Olur Mu? [Could the Forbes Mansion be a “Levantine Cultural Centre”?], Saadet Erciyes - Kent Yaşam, 1-9-2020 (on paper 17-9-2020)
• Vatikan arşivlerinde bir Türk [A Turk in the Vatican archives], Fatih Çekirge - Hürriyet, 13-9-2020