Mpakirtzis Ioannis

Ioannis Bakirtzis graduated of the Department of History and Archaeology Philosophy’s Faculty AUTH and he is PhD (1999) to the Sociology’s Department of Athens’ Panteion University. PhD thesis entitled: “The ideology of Georgios Vizyenos and the Ottoman rule in Thrace, during the 2nd of the 19th century.
He is Professor at the Faculty of Humanities – DUTH, to the searching field: “Late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkish State – History and Society”. He also teaches to the Postgraduate Studies: “Studies in Local History – Interdisciplinary Approaches” (DUTH) and “Geopolitics and Religion” (AUTH).
During his academic career, he taught in Turkey, at the University of Thrace – Edirne, as Assistant Professor of Greek Language and Philology, in the Department of Translation.
His research interests are focused mainly on the 19th century and thematically on daily life in the Balkans under Ottoman rule, especially in the province-vilayet of Thrace, the demographic, social and economic data arising from the Ottoman Yearbooks, Geographical Dictionaries, the records of the Holly Law Courts, Budgets, Education in the Ottoman Empire and military history during the aforementioned period.