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The Publication and Distribution of Karamanli Texts by the British and Foreign Bible Society Before 1850, I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2011

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One of the most interesting of the various groups of Orthodox Christians that constituted the Rum Milleti within the Ottoman Empire were the Karamanli Christians of Asia Minor. These Karamanli Christians, or Karamanlides, were a substantial body of Christians Orthodox in religion but Turkish in speech. During the Ottoman period they were largely concentrated in the interior of Asia Minor, although they were also to be found in the Crimea and on the shores of the Sea of Azov. The question of their origin is a matter of controversy and is likely to remain so. Greek scholars incline to the view that the Karamanlides were of Greek descent and adopted Turkish as their vernacular, either by force or as a result of their isolation from the Greek speaking Orthodox Christians of the coastal regions. Turkish scholars regard them as the descendants of Turks who had migrated to Byzantine territories before the conquest or had served as mercenaries in the Byzantine armies and who had adopted the religion but not the language of their new rulers.

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page 57 note 1 Greek, Καραμανλδες; Turkish Karamanhlar.

page 57 note 2 In Greek known as Καραμανλδκα; in Turkish as Karamanlica.

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page 63 note 2 Most Karamanli works were translations of Greek originals, but I have been unable to discover the Greek original of this work. It is possible that the author was Anastasios the Sinaite.

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page 63 note 4 The Life of William Kelly was apparently translated via the French.

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page 64 note 4 , Venice 1782, 54. This section, the Gospel in Greek and Turkish, in Professor Dawkins's copy (now in the Taylor Institution, Oxford) is heavily stained with candle wax; evidence perhaps of its frequent liturgical use! See also Salaville and Dalleggio, i. 69.

page 65 note 1 Danieloglu, D. E., Σεραφεμ μητροπολτης Ἀγκρας Ἀτταλλες, Constantinople 1865, 4Google Scholar. Salaville and Dalleggio, i. 14.

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page 65 note 5 The following note is appended at the end of the passage; ‘Tous ces passages de l'Evangile ont été écrits par le père Gery Desirs de Cambray. Le turcq est un turcq choisi, et quʼun chacun comprend aisément’. I owe this reference to Mr. J. R. Walsh.

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page 67 note 2 See above, 60. Pinkerton, however, did not actually travel in Asia Minor.

page 67 note 3 Poujoulat, B., Voyage à Constantinople, dans l'Asie Mineure …, Paris 1840, i. 126Google Scholar. See also G. Bowen, op. cit., 41, ‘in the interior … there are … Christian villages where … the ritual of the Church has been translated into Turkish for their use.’ Bowen also did not travel in the interior, hence no great weight can be attached to his evidence.

page 67 note 4 E. Naumann, op. cit., 208.

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page 70 note 5 O. Blau, ‘Griechisch-türkische Sprachproben’, op. cit., 571.

page 71 note 1 ‘… molitvami na povecherʼe, … molitvui Vasiliya V. protiv zlukh demonov, molitva sedmi otrokov v Efese, sluzhba Blagoveshcheniiu Presv. Bogoroditsui, zakliatiya protiv aurui, pripisuivaemuiya, Grigoriyu chudotvortsu, razreshitelʼnuiya molitvui rodil'nitse, pri razluchenii dushi, na pogbrebenie, na tretii brak, molitva φυλακτριον (po turetski), sinaksar, v kotorom pod 7-m marta stoitʼ pamyatʼ tolʼko sv. Efrema Khersonskago, oglavlenie psalmov i molitva ot golovnoi boli’; Grigorovich, op. cit., 11. For a German translation of this and other passages of Grigorovich's work, see Blau, O., ‘Uber die griechisch-türkische Mischbevölkerung um Mariupol’, Z.D.M.G., xxviii (1874), 577–80Google Scholar.

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page 71 note 3 B. A. Mystakidis, op. cit, 457.

page 71 note 4 See W. Heffening and C. Peters, op. cit., 225–38 and Heffening, W., ‘Liturgische Texte der Nestorianer und Jakobiten in süd-türkischen Mundarten’, Oriens Christianus, series 3, xi (1936), 232–5.Google Scholar

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page 72 note 4 The Greek text reads as follows: Βαπτζεται δολος το Θεο (…) εἰς τ νομα το Πατρς, Ἀμν κα το ϒἱο, Ἀμν κα το Ἁγᵷου Πνεματος, Ἀμν.

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page 74 note 3 Stephan Gerlachs des Aeltem Tage-Buch der … an die Ottotnannische Pfortezu Constantinopel abgefertigten und durch … David Ungnad … vollbrachter Gesandtschafft, Frankfurt 1674, 372Google Scholar.

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page 75 note 5 K. A. Palaiologos, op. cit., 613 and G. Lagos, op. cit., 45.

page 75 note 6 I. Balabanis, op. cit., 11.

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page 75 note 9 E. Naumann, op. cit., 208.

page 75 note 10 Keppel, G. T., Narrative of a Journey across the Balcan …, London 1831, ii. 331Google Scholar.

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page 77 note 1 Jäschke, G., ‘Die Türkisch-Orthodoxe Kirche’, Der Islam, xxxix (1964), 126Google Scholar. The liturgical texts, however, remained typewritten. Gotthard Jäschke's recent and very full account of the Turkish Orthodox Church throws a great deal of light on this curious episode in recent Turkish history. It seems that the Rev. J. A. Douglas's colourful assertion that the ‘Angoran Parliament … bastinadoed poor Papa Eftim’ into leading the Turkish Orthodox Church is very wide of the mark, The “Turkish National Churches”’, The Christian East, iii (1922), 124Google Scholar. For an interesting account from the Turkish Orthodox viewpoint see Ergene, Teoman, Istiklâl Harbinde Türk Ortodokslan, Istanbul 1951Google Scholar and Παπ Ε ὐ θὑμ φνδινιν Ὀρθδοξος χαλι μουραδζαατ β Πατρικχανɛγ καρσ μουδαϕαναμɛσι, Istanbul n.d.

page 77 note 2 H. Berberian, La Litérature Arméno-Turque, P.T.F., ii. 809.

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page 77 note 5 C. Korolevsky, op. cit., 91.

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page 78 note 1 R. M. Dawkins The Recent Study of Folklore in Greece, op. cit., 132. See also Huart, C., ‘Notice sur trois ouvrages en turc d'Angora imprimés en caractères grecs’, Journal Asiatique, xvi (1900), 459–60Google Scholar and P. Karolidis, op. cit., 30.

page 78 note 2 See G. I. Phousaras, op. cit., 26–7, for catalogues of Nicholas Glykis for 1798, 1802, 1805, 1806, 1812 and 1818. The 1818 and 1821 catalogues have sections devoted especially to Karamanli books.

page 78 note 3 This was the Ἀζζ Ἀπστολοσλαρην μɛλɛρ β μɛχτονπλɛρ, Venice 1811Google Scholar.

page 78 note 4 Bartholomaeus Kopitar, librarian of the Hofbibliothek in Vienna, was censor of Slavonic and Greek publications printed within the Habsburg Empire, see his ‘Selbstbiographie’ in Barth Kopitars kleinere Schriften, ed. Miklosich, F., Vienna 1857, i. 11Google Scholar. See also von Mosel, I. F., Geschichte der Kaiserl. Königl. Hofbibliothek zu Wien, Vienna 1835, 227–8Google Scholar; and Enepekides, P. K., Kopitar und die Griechen, Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch, iii (1953), 5370Google Scholar. Kopitar's official title was apparently ‘Censor graeco-slavicus ordinarius’, see Teršakoveć, M., Kopitar und Vuk, Jagić-Festschrift, Berlin 1908, 480Google Scholar. Kopitar's private library was offered for sale to the British Museum in 1843 but declined. The catalogue (British Museum Add. MS. 18277) contains no Karamanli works.

page 78 note 5 Baron Heinrich von Diez, a former Prussian Ambassador to Constantinople and a proficient Orientalist, had been asked by the Bible Society to prepare for publication the Leiden MS. of Albert Bobowski's translation of the Bible into Turkish.

page 79 note 1 Pinkerton again refers to an 1810 edition of the Ἀζζ Ἀπστολοσλαρην μɛλɛρ β μɛχτουπλɛρ, Venice 1811Google Scholar. See above, 60.

page 79 note 2 Letter of 1 September 1816, from Vienna, B.F.B.S., 13th Report, 1817, 98–9.

page 79 note 3 Ibid., 98. It appears that rather more of the Karamanlides could read the Arabic alphabet than this passage would suggest. On this point see pt. II. Pinkerton's 1816 letters are also printed in a pamphlet entitled Letters from R. Pinkerton, on his late tour in Russia …, to promote the object of the British and Foreign Bible Society, London 1817.Google Scholar

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page 79 note 5 Letter of 7 October 1819, from Constantinople, B.F.B.S., 16th Report, 1820, 17.

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