Web sites / Blogs

Institutions:

• A newspaper article on the history of the Turco-British relations.
• The Anglican church at Alsancak, Izmir St John the Evangelist
• Crimean memorial Anglican church in Istanbul - Cannon Ian Sherwood
• 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
• Alex Med: The Alexandria and Meditteranean Research Centre
• 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
• 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

Bulletin:

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

Resources:

• The story of Maltese migrations
• The diaries of Gertrude Bell, who paid 3 visits to Smyrna meeting with the Levantines.
• Chios and beyond, families and stories & forum
• The Jews of Smyrna - research article / Sépharades du Levant
• The diary of Samuel Medley, butler to the Earl of Kinnoull, British ambassador to Constantinople, covering the dates 16 October, 1733 to 9 November, 1736
• Ambassador Morgenthau’s story, memoirs of the American ambassador in Istanbul between 1913-16.
• Travelogues: Travellers’ Views
• Ottoman Diplomats: Letters from the Imperial Legation in Brussels (1849–1914)
• Plan d’Assurance de Constantinople - Charles E. Goad maps of the city

Articles:

• Dragomans’ career change: change of status in some families connected with the British and Dutch embassies at Istanbul 1785-1829 – Alexander H. de Groot – Department of Turkish studies University of Leiden, Holland
• Galata and Pera 1: A Short History, Urban Development Architecture and Today - Afife Batur
• Cyrus Hamlin and the Founding of Robert College
• Concept of Westernisation and the role of foreign architects in 19th century Ottoman architecture – Ayşe Nasir
• Ottoman official attitudes towards American missionaries - Çağrı Erhan - research paper, Yale university
• The marble sarcophagus cover of Sir William Hussey, images
• Gli Italiani a Smirne nei secoli XVIII e XIX [The Italians in Smyrna during the 18th and the 19th centuries] - Marie-Carmen Smyrnelis
• History of the British colony at Smyrna by Hyde Clarke - 1862
• The Levant Company in Smyrna - Notes and Queries, 1915
• Smyrna in the seventeenth century - Blackwood magazine, vol CCXII July/Dec 1922- A.C. Wratislaw
• Licorice - John Uri Lloyd, 1929
• British Merchants at Alexandretta, 17th-18th Centuries - Major I. E. Gray - Genealogists’ Magazine, March 1945, vol 9, no:12
• Boudja past and present’ - Hilda Voltera Barff - ‘Candlesticks’ Izmir Anglican church magazine, winter 1951-52
• The million dollar bet (includes impresssions of Buck Whaley’s visit to Smyrna and Constantinople on his way to Jerusalem for a wager) - John Brinton, 1967 - Saudi Aramco world magazine on-line archive
• An American Judge in Egypt: Jasper Yeates Brinton - William Tracy, 1970 - Saudi Aramco world magazine on-line archive
• Italian-speaking communities in early nineteenth century Tunis - Alessandro Triulzi, 1971
• The Library of the Levant Company’s factory in Smyrna (1805) - Richard Clogg, the Gleaner v.11, 1974
• The Construction of the Smyrna-Aidin Railway in Southwestern Anatolia, 1856-1866 - Francisco Javier Valenzuela, 1975
• The Russells of Aleppo - John M. Munro, 1982 - Saudi Aramco world magazine on-line archive
• The Bonfils Story - William H. Rockett, 1983 - Saudi Aramco world magazine on-line archive
• A College on the Bosporus - Malcolm P. & Marcia R. Stevens, 1984 - Saudi Aramco world magazine on-line archive
• Vincentian Missions in the Islamic World - Charles A. Frazee, 1984
• European Views of Early 19th Century Izmir - Reinhold Schiffer, 1986
• İzmir Basınında Levantenler (XIX. Yüzyıl’in İkinci Yarısı [Levantines featured in the Izmir Press in the second half of the 19th century] - Şerife Yorulmaz, 1988 - segment
• The role of the tobacco trade in Turkish-American relations, 1923-29 - Robert Carey Goodman III, University of Richmond, 1988
• Orientalist Travelers - Michael Simpson, 1989 - Saudi Aramco world magazine on-line archive
• Carpet trade in Smyrna, 1990
• The Ethnic Structure of Galata - Eldem Edhem, Biennual Istanbul, 1992
• Smyrna in 1821: A Russian View - Theophilus C. Prousis, 1992
• Belgians of Egypt -Samir Raafat - Egyptian mail, 1995
• Les Arméniens catholiques de Smyrne aux XVIII et XIXème siècles - Marie-Carmen Smyrnelis, Revue du Monde Arménien Moderne et Contemporain, Société des Etudes Arméniennes, Paris, 1995-96
• Art and diplomacy in Ottoman Constantinople - Philip Mansel, 1996
• TB, a Levant Company Factor on Pilgrimage, 1669 - Jonathan Picarsic, 1997
• The “Arabick” Interest of the Natural Philosophers in Seventeenth-Century England - The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1997; Saliba, George
• The West and the Middle East - Bernard Lewis - Foreign Affairs v. 76 (Jan./Feb. 1997) p. 114-30
• From Smyrna to Stewartstown, Ireland: A numistatist’s epigraphic notebook - a study of the work of Henry Perigal Borell (1795-1831) by David Whitehead - 1999
• Archives for the Protestant Cemetery of Feriköy - Mr Stier: The cultural Attaché, German Consulate, Taksim, Istanbul, 1999
• Struggles over the shore: building the quay of Izmir (1867-1875) - Sibel Zandi-Sayek, 2000
• Belgium in the Ottoman Capital, From the Early Steps to ‘la Belle Epoque’ - part 1, part 2, 2000
• A Levantine life: Giuseppe Donizetti at the Ottoman court - Emre Aracı, 2002
• ‘The Cultural Contributions of the Levantines of Izmir’ - İnci Kuyulu Ersoy, 2002
• The Bailo in Constantinople: Crisis and Career in Venice’s Early Modern Diplomatic Corps - Eric R. Dursteller, 2002
• The Role of the Ottomans and Dutch in the Commercial Integration between the Levant and Atlantic in the Seventeenth Century - Mehmet Bulut, 2002
• Smyrne à la fin de l’Empire Ottoman un cosmopolitism si voyant - Hervé Georgolin (vol. 67 Cashiers de la Méditerranée - 2003) - English summary
• The Ambassador, the Sultan and the Artist, an Audience in Istanbul” - archive information on an exhibition in Holland held in 2003 of the relationship between the Dutch envoy Cornelis Calkoen, the Sultan Ahmed III, ruler of the Ottoman Empire, and the painter the Frenchman Jean Baptiste Vanmour
• Ottoman Postal and Telegraph Services in the last quarter of the nineteenth century - Ayşegül Okan, 2003
• The Diplomatic Trinity: Ambassadors, Dragomans and the Porte - Aykut Gürçağlar, 2003
• English Dragomans and Oriental Secretaries: The Early Nineteenth Century Origins of the Anglicization of the British Drogmanat in Constantinople - G.R. Berridge - Diplomacy and Statecraft, volume 14, Dec. 2003, number 4, Frank Cass Journal, London
• Cosmopolitan imperialists and the Ottoman port cities: conflicting logics in the urban social fabric - Malte Fuhrmann, University of Berlin (vol. 67 Cashiers de la Méditerranée - 2003)
• Coexistences et réseaux de relations à Smyrne aux XVIII et XIX siècles - Marie-Carmen Smyrnelis (vol. 67 Cashiers de la Méditerranée - 2003)
• Russian Trade Prospects in Smyrna: An 1812 Consular Report - Theophilus C. Prousis, 2003
• Merchantile gentelman and inquisitive travellers: constructing the natural history of Aleppo - Janet C.M. Starkey - 2004
• Ottoman Territoriality Versus Maritime Usage: The Ottoman Islands and English Privateering in the Wars with France 1689-1714 - Colin Heywood, Insularites Ottoman, p. 145-173 - 2014
• Istanbul’s Vanished City of the Dead: The Grand Champs des Morts - Brian Johnson, 2005
• Development of railways in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey - Master’s Thesis, Sena Bayraktaroğlu, 2005
• The Logic of the Ottoman Capitulations - Timur Kuran, 2005
• Forgetting the Smyrna Fire - Biray Kolluoğlu Kırlı, 2005
• A short history of the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) in Turkey - Rıfat N. Bali, 2006
• Urban Transfomation of Ottoman Port Cities in the Nineteenth Century: Change from Ottoman Beirut to French Mandatory Beirut - thesis by Pelin Kihtir Öztürk, 2006
• Venetian Consuls in Egypt and Syria in the Ottoman Age - Maria Pia Pedani, 2006
• A study of Ottoman Modernisation on the City: The Sixth Municipal District of Istanbul (1858-1877) - Master’s Thesis, N. Işık Demirkan, 2006
• Levantine Heritage in Izmir - Onur İnal, MA Thesis, 2006
• La présence culturelle française dans l’Empire ottoman à l’âge de la compétition coloniale en Europe (1870-1914) - Paul Dumont (Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg), 2006
• The Tangled Ends of an Empire: Ottoman Encounters with the West and Problems of Westernization — an Overview - Engin Deniz Akarlı, 2006
• Comparison of the Turkish and European Quarters of Izmir of the nineteenth century - Master’s Thesis, Mustafa Demiralp, 2006
• A historical panaroma of an Istanbul neighbourhood: Cihangir from the late Nineteenth century to 2000s - Binnaz Tuğba Sasanlar, 2006
• Les Greco-Catholiques à Istanbul - Fr. Ange Michel, 2007
• Bedlam in Beirut: A British Perspective in 1826 - Theophilus C. Prousis, 2007
• Between stumbling and fall towards insolvency: The endeavours of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century - MA Thesis, Ekrem Karademir, 2007
• Information about the Greek educational institutions of Smyrna - George Vassiadis, 2007
  
• Italian Architects in Smyrna - Cenk Berkant, (The First International Conference on the presence of Italian Architects in Mediterranean Countries), 2007
• The Kampos of Chios: A Comparative Study of Multicultural Blend in Architectural Type and Urban Fabric - Emiliano Bugatti, 2007
• Remembering Smyrna / Izmir: Shared History, Shared Trauma - Leyla Neyzi - 2008
• Sports activities of English in Izmir (last of 19th century, beginning of 20th century) - Hasan Mert, 2008
• The German involvement in Ottoman economic development: banking, railways and other investments, 1888-1914 - MA Thesis, Halil Ege Özen, 2008
• The reverberating space of Izmir: Levantines interpenetrating homes - Selin Ayşe Kaner, Thesis, 2008
• Osmanlı/Türk Müzik Kültüründe Levanten Müzikçiler [Levantine Musicians in the Musical Culture of Ottoman Turks] - Seyit Yöre, Selçuk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. 24, pp. 413-437, 2008
• The Fearless and Self-reliant Servant: The Life and Times of Sir Alfred Biliotti (1833-1915), and Italian Levantine in British Service - David Barchard, 2008
• Modernleşme sürecinde Izmir’de Italyanlarin Eğitimi [The history education of Italians in Izmir] - Halil Özeçoğlu, 2008
• Communal Relations in Izmir / Symrna, 1826-1864: As seen through the prism of Greek-Turkish Relations - N. Feryal Tansuğ, 2008
• A Delve into Displacement: Who imagines the Levantine identity? - Nikola Haddad-Edizel, 2009
• Le Levant, une identité oubliée? [The Levant, a forgotten identity]- Marie-Carmen Smyrnelis, 2009
• Glass Bridges: Cross-Cultural Exchange between Florence and the Ottoman Empire - Reena Devi, University of Edinburgh, 2009
• Negotiating the field: American Protestant missionaries in Ottoman Syria, 1823 to 1860 - Christine Beth Lindner, 2009
• 19. yüzyıl’da Amerikan Birleşik Devletleri’nin İzmir’deki konsolosluk faaliyetleri [Activities of the American consulate of Smyrna in the 19th century] - thesis by Onur Kırlı, 2009
• Metamorfosi Urbane Mediterranee Salonicco e Smirne: costruzione e ricostruzione delle identità [Urban Mediterranean transformation in Salonica and Smyrna: Construction and reconstruction of identity] - Emiliano Bugatti, 2009
• Interpreting Dragomans: Boundaries and crossings in the early modern Mediterranean - E. Natalie Rothman, 2009
• Mersin Levanten Yapıları Üzerine Bir İnceleme [A study on Levantine buildings of Mersin] - thesis by Gülizar Açık Güneş, 2010
• Down and out on the quays of Izmir: ‘European’ musicians, innkeepers, and prostitutes in the Ottoman port-cities - Malte Fuhrmann, 2010
• Apparition et développement de la presse francophone d’Istanbul dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle - Seza Sinanlar Uslu, Université Technique de Yildiz, 2010
• From Capitulations to Unequal Treaties: The Matter of an Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in the Ottoman Empire - Eliana Augusti, 2010
• Maltese survivors of Smyrna - Henry Frendo, 2010
• The building of Istanbul docks 1870-1910: Some new entrepreneurial and cartographic data - Vilma Hastaoglou-Martinidis, 2010
• How to research archives in a Levantine context - Craig Encer, 2010
• French Direct Investments in the Ottoman Empire Before World War I - V. Necla Geyikdağı, 2011
• Kültürleşmenin Bir Parçası Olarak Osmanlı’da Operanın Görünümü [View of Opera in the Ottoman Empire as a Part of Acculturation] - Seyit Yöre, Zeitschrift für die Welt der Türken, Vol. 3, No.2, pp. 53-69, 2011
• Cityscapes and Modernity: Smyrna Morphing into Izmir - Biray Kolluoğlu Kırlı, 2011
• Une société hors de soi, identités et relations sociales à Smyrne aux XVIIIe et XIX siècles (Mélanie Turco) - Marie-Carmen Smyrnelis – (vol. 82 Cashiers de la Méditerranée - 2011)
• Freemasonary in eighteenth-century Izmir? A critical analysis of Alexander Drummond’s travels (1754) - Maurits H. van den Boogert, 2012
• A Modern Idea of Town: the Istanbul Pera-Beyoğlu District from Late Ottoman Period to 1930s (contribution summary to the Istanbul city portrait international conference, 2012) - Emiliano Bugatti
• 19th Century Painted Trays from Museum and Private Collections in Greece and Turkey - Dr. Myrto Hatzaki and Flavia Nessi Yazitzoglou, 2012
• History of the St. Antonio Hospital in Izmir - Linda Tito, 2012
• Hotel Huck Smyrna: Outstanding Hotel of the Glorious Port-City - Ali Özkan, 2012
• Sydney La Fontaine’s Carpet Warehouse and Depot - Taylan Zeybek, 2012
• Between Westernatization and Orientalism: Italian Architects and Restorers in Istanbul from the 19th Century to the Beginning of the 20th - Maurizio Boriani, 2012
• Smyrna Rest: The Birth of the Greek Evangelical Association in a Coffee House in Alsancak (1880-1913) - Funda Adıtatar, 2012
• Edouard Roditi and the Istanbul Avant-Garde - Clifford Endres, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 54, No. 4, Winter 2012, 471-493
• The story of the Izmir - Aydın Railway and the Walker family - Ali Özkan, 2013
• Osmanlı Dönemi’nde İzmir’de Bir Cemaat: İzmir’de Alman İzleri [The legacy of the Germans in Smyrna] 1752-1922 - İlhan Pınar, 2013
• The Protégé System and Beratli Merchants in the Ottoman Empire: The Price of Legal Institutions - Cihan Artunç, 2013
• Urban Transformation in Ottoman-Mediterranean Region: A comparative study of Hamiye and Alsancak - Günseli Gürel, 2014
• Venetian Vagabonds and Furious Frenchmen: Nationalist and Cosmopolitan Impulses among Europeans in Galata - Julia Anne Landweber, Osmanlı Araştırmaları / The Journal of Ottoman Studies, XLIV,2014
• The American Protestant Missionary Network in Ottoman Turkey, 1876-1914 - Devrim Ümit PhD, 2014
• Constantinople Confidential: News and Information in the Diary of Jean-Louis Rigo (c.1686-1756), Secretary of the Dutch Embassy in Istanbul - Rosanne Baars, 2014
• The Italians of Istanbul between 1873-1910 and their properties: An analysis through the property petitions addressed to the Italian Embassy - Zeynep Cebeci Suvari, 2014
• Rediscovering the 19th Century of a Port Town in Levant: Smyrna/Izmir - Burcu Tasci, Büke Özden, Fatma Davras, Hümeyra Birol Akkurt - Athens Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 2015
• Between Trade and Religion: Three Florentine Merchants in Mamluk Cairo - Giuseppe Cecere, 2015
• The Role of Dragomans in the Ottoman Empire - Elvin Abbasbeyli, 2015
• Sources for Levantine History - Lorans Tanatar Baruh, 2015
• Izmir’de yerel ve Levanten kültürünün duvar ve tavan resimlerine yansıması [The reflection of regional and Levantine culture on wall and ceiling paintings in Izmir], Prof. Dr. Selçuk Mülayim Armağanı Sanat Tarihi Araştırmaları, (Ed. A. Doğanay), Istanbul - İnci Kuyulu Ersoy, 2015
• Lingua Franca: a not so simple pidgin - Joanna Nolan, 2015
• England’s Forgotten Muslim History - Jerry Brotton, 2016
• Interview with Luca Orlandi part:1 The city and architecture - part: 2 The Levantine World, 2016

Database listings

• List of British Consular Officials Turkey (1581-1860) (v.3) - David Wilson, 2011
• The listing of the Consuls of Çanakkale (v.4) - Graham Lee, 2011
• The listing of the Consuls of Gallipoli (v.4) - Graham Lee, 2011
• Listing of people who gave their birthplace as Smyrna, Turkey on the 1851 – 1901 UK censuses, Joyce Cully, 2011
• Listing of a sample of Births, deaths and marriages in Smyrna (1864-1965) obtained from British newspapers, Joyce Cully, 2010
• The Adami Group transcription of Maltese genealogical records
• The Dutch Historical Manuscripts Commission online database for the Levant trade 1590-1826 (six volumes of the Sources to the Levant Trade published between 1910 and 1966 each about 600 pages) - info
• Postal forwarding agents by cities (including some in the Levant) in the 19th century
• Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşiv Rehberi [Central Ottoman Archives register]
• Vincentian Catholic Archives - Salonica, St. Benoit, Istanbul 1583-1932: Catalogue F. GORLIN cm, Catalogue F-X. LOBRY cm, Middle East.
• Maltese surnames used at the Ionian Islands, part of an exhibition organised by Spyros Gauci, secretary of the Catholic Archibishop of Corfu, 2012
• Anglo-American Cemetery Beirut, Lebanon
• Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records of the British Chapel, Smyrna - Turkey 1795 - 1832
• The registers of the Smyrna Anglican Chaplaincy (1799-1840) held at the Manuscripts Section of Lamberth’s Palace, London

Photographic archives

• Pascal Sebah’s (1823-1886) photos of the Levant
• The Blatchford Collection of Photographs at the American University of Beirut, including those of Rubellin, Bonfils
• Chusseau Flaviens - active 1890s-1910s
• University of Pennsylvania Library photo archive collection
• The US Library of Congress photo collection - Abdul-Hamid II Collection (list view)
• Middle East Image Archive
• The Fouad Debbas Collection
• Gertrude Bell Archive
• Thessaloniki 1900-1930
• Travelogues.gr

Archive trade catalogues

• Oriental Carpet Manufacturers
• The C.J. Giraud company founded in 1914 by Charlton James Giraud (1869-1955)
• Indicateur Commerciales - Smyrna trade registry of 1891, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1898-1899 and 1920
• Indicateur des Professions Commerciales & Industrielle de Smyrne, de l’Anatolie etc. - Smyrna trade registry of 1895 (3rd year)
• Annuaire Oriental du Commerce de l’industrie, de l’administration et de la magistrature pour Turquie, Russie, Greece, Roumanie, Bulgarie par Cervati Frères & Cie, 1891
• Indicateur Égyptien: Administrative et Commercial, 1897
• 1888 Smyrna Guide (in Greek translated to English) - arrangement according to profession, George Poulimenos, 2011 - in excel format: 1888: Originally in Greek, published by Amalthea in Smyrna - 1891: Originally in French, published by Cervati in Constantinople - 1893: Originally in French, published by Nalpas and d’Andria in Smyrna - courtesy of George Poulimenos ()
• Adnan Bilget ‘Son Yüzyilda İzmir Şehri: 1849-1949’ [Izmir in the last century: 1849-1949], 1949 - sample
• Lettercovers
• Norwich Union archives
• American Chamber of Commerce for the Levant, journals, 1911-1931

Podcasts

• Landscapes of the Eastern Question - Ottoman History podcast with Paolo Girardelli
• Producing Pera - Ottoman History podcast with Nilay Özlü
• Galata and the Capitulations - Ottoman History podcast with Fariba Zarinebaf
• German Expatriates in Late Ottoman Istanbul - Ottoman History podcast with Philipp Wirtz
• Diplomacy and culture at the Ottoman Court, with Tracy Sowerby, Maxwell Hudson, Aneliya Stoyanova, Talitha Schepers

Video Presentations - those more recent:

• ‘From Indifference and Contempt to Love and Hate. The Perception of ‘Franks’ in Ottoman Culture’ - Edhem Eldem, Bogazici University, 2007
• 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.
• 2005 video documentary productions by Ragıp Taranç and Gülnaz Saraçoğlu and Yrd. Doç. Dr. Dilek İmançer
• 2011 video documentary by Srdan Segaric for Croatian TV, on the “Croatians on the Bosphorus”.
• 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
• 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

Blogs

• İzmir ve Levanten dünya [Izmir and the Levantine world] - A blog site summarising Daniel Goffman’s book.
• Doğu Akdeniz’de liman kentleri (1800-1914) [Port cities of the Eastern Meditterenean] - Ayşen Anadol - blog site reviewing book.
• ‘Following Miss Gertrude Bell’ treck 2015, Pat Yale.
• S. Harlow: An American chaplain in Smyrna; the history behind the NATO base.

In the news in Turkey:

• Izmir’s Past Revisited through the Old Bornova Houses - Denise Braggiotti, Turkish Daily News, 1 August 1999
• 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.
• 1729 Sokak, St. Helen Kilisesi [The Roman Catholic church of St. Helena in Karşıyaka, Izmir]
• 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
• Izmir Municipality, postulated future projects some supported by Unesco, breakdown - summary - a personal view by Alex Baltazzi:
• 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
• İzmir’in saklı tarihinin peşinde [In search of the hidden history of Izmir - the research of Andrew Simes] - Tolga Albay, Hürriyet, 23-2-2016
• 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