Istanbul was one of the great crossroads of the world, and \u00dcsk\u00fcdar was home to a mixture of Muslims, Jews, and Greek and Armenian Christians. The court records occasionally note that a petitioner is Jewish (yahudiye) or Christian (nasraniyye), but more often they simply note that the person is a zimmi, a catchall term for non-Muslim citizens of the Empire. Most often, the records say nothing at all, and leave the reader to deduce the petitioner’s religion from their names.<\/p>\n
The translations are generally to modern versions of Greek names, since I lacked a resource for contemporary Greek names.<\/p>\n
Confusingly, some of the women’s names are in male form.<\/p>\n
Arondasina Arondasina The Turkish transliterations frequently leave off the Greek endings, possibly because speakers substituted Turkish case endings for Greek case endings.<\/p>\n Dimitri (Dimitri<\/em>) Istanbul was one of the great crossroads of the world, and \u00dcsk\u00fcdar was home to a mixture of Muslims, Jews, and Greek and Armenian Christians. The court records occasionally note that a petitioner is Jewish (yahudiye) or Christian (nasraniyye), but more often they simply note that the person is a\u2026<\/p>\n
\nErine, Erini, \u0130reni, \u0130rini, \u0130rina (Eireni<\/em>)
\nHarsi
\nHesna (possibly the Arabic name Hasnaa, the feminine of Hasan<\/em>)
\nKofana? (the translator was unclear about the transliteration of the name<\/em>)
\nKomonini, Komini (Komnene?<\/em>)
\nMariya, Marya (Maria<\/em>)
\nMarula (Maroula, a nickname for Maria<\/em>)
\n\u00d6dege
\n\u00d6deki
\nPanayot (Panagiotis, a male name; or Panayot, an Eastern European variant<\/em>)
\nSofyani, Sofi
\nTerani
\nTodora (Theodora<\/em>)
\nTrandafiloz (Triantafyllos, a male name meaning “rose”<\/em>)
\nTrani, Drani (possibly a nickname for Trandafiloz<\/em>)
\nVasilini (Vasilini<\/em>)
\nZoyi (Zoe<\/em>)<\/p>\nRaw Data<\/h3>\n
\nDrani bt. \u0130strati, also called Drani bt. \u0130stirati
\nErine bt. Dimitri
\nErine bt. Kosta
\nErini
\nErini bt. Yorgi
\nHarsi bt. Nikefor
\nHesna bt. Kosta
\n\u0130reni bt. Saru
\n\u0130rina bt. Todoroz, zimmi
\n\u0130rini bt. Yorgi
\nKofana? bt. Yusuf
\nKomonini bt. Todora, also called Komini bt. Todora
\nMariya bt. Kosta
\nMarula bt. Manol
\nMarula bt. Sari, zimmi
\nMarya bt. Mavridi
\nMarya bt. Mihal
\n\u00d6dege bt. Nikola
\n\u00d6deki bt. Todora
\nPanayot bt. Yani
\nSofyani bt. Manol, also called Sofi bt. Manol
\nTerani bt. Dimitri
\nTodora
\nTodora bt. Dimitri
\nTodora bt. \u0130stafanoz, zimmi
\nTodora bt. Yani
\nTrandafiloz bt. Kiregoz
\nTrani bt. Dimitri
\nTrani bt. Solak
\nVasilini bt. Manol
\nZoyi bt. Mikedil<\/p>\nMale Names<\/h3>\n
\n\u0130stafanoz (Istefanos<\/em>)
\n\u0130strati, \u0130stirati (Istratis<\/em>)
\nKiregoz (possibly a variant of Karag\u00f6z, “dark eyes,” a Turkish name used by non-Muslims as well as Muslims<\/em>)
\nKosta (Kostas<\/em>)
\nManol (Manolis<\/em>)
\nMavridi (Mavridis<\/em>)
\nMihal (Mihalis<\/em>)
\nMikedil
\nNikefor (Nikephoros<\/em>)
\nNikola (Nikolaos<\/em>)
\nSari (a Turkish nickname meaning “yellow” or “fair-haired,” also used as a name element in Greek<\/em>)
\nSaru
\nSolak (a Turkic name meaning “left-handed”<\/em>)
\nTodora, Todoroz (Theodoros<\/em>)
\nYani (Yannis<\/em>)
\nYorgi (Georgios<\/em>)
\nYusuf (the Arabic form of Joseph, popular among Muslims, Jews, and Christians alike<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"