Koskinas: 16th-century Athens was the Ottoman Empire's fourth largest European city
Aristotle Koskinas · Aristotle Koskinas on Greek History · Jan 5, 2017 · at 12:46
Archaeologist Aristotle Koskinas explains the demographics and urban history of Athens during the early centuries of Ottoman rule.
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“In the census of the 16th century, it was, it had a population of 17,000 people, which makes it the fourth largest city of the Ottoman Empire in in Europe.”
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