From empire to nation state: spatial aspects of the annexation of Thrace to Greece
Abstract
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the spatial, ethnic, symbolical and functional changes introduced to the Thracian landscape after the region’ s annexation to Greece during early 1920s. The research is based on the analysis of archival collections, the assessment of secondary data and available bibliography and fieldwork research in the study site areas.
The Balkan Wars signalled the end of the Ottoman presence at the Balkan Peninsula and the distribution of the Ottoman territories between the rivalling and expanding Balkan states. This process launched the period that marked the transition from the long established imperial past to the nation states present. The end of the Greek-Turkish war (1919-1922) that resulted to process of border re-drawing and the population exchange between Greece and Turkey gave fertile ground for the fundamental alteration of the traditional Thracian landscape west of the Maritsa/Evros river, as a newly annexed province of the Greek territory. Ins ...
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