Local Intermediaries And Insular Space In Late- 18th Century Ottoman Cyprus

Abstract

This article examines three provincial intermediaries in Cyprus during the closing decades of the eighteenth century. It considers these cases as examples of some of the groups of Ottoman subjects who came to benefit in more ways than one from the redistribution of wealth and power in the Ottoman Empire during the period between 1750 and 1850. In this era, Ottoman imperial governance faced a series of challenges, and horizontal and vertical relationships of power and authority were undergoing significant renegotiation and reformulation.