SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS IN RURAL THESSALY, 1850–1940

Abstract

This article is part of a research project on the transformations that took place between 1850 and 1940 in the province of Thessaly, an extensive rural region of the Balkan Peninsula. it focuses on the changes in the economic, social and demographic levels, highlighting the interrelation of these changes in rural Thessaly from the promulgation of the land law (1858) under the ottoman Tanzimat reforms to the annexation of Thessaly and the implementation of extensive land reforms in the 1920s by the Greek state. © 2020 Institute for Neohellenic Research. All rights reserved.