The Passage from the Ottoman Empire to the Nation-States is a collection of articles by Sia Anagnostopoulou on the Greek experience of becoming an independent state. Anagnostopoulou characterises this process as a transition to modernity, meaning not that it was a transformation from a religiously-defined Greek community to a secularly-defined one. The relationship between religion and nationality in the Ottoman Empire was complex and Anagnostopoulou explores it for the Greek case. She also writes on how old Ottoman practices and institutions were adapted and transcribed into modernity. The processes that Anagnostopoulou describes occurred between the mid-nineteenth century (the Tanzimat period) and 1960, when Cyprus became an independent state. However, she looks back until the 16th century to see how institutions and terms related to nationality developed through to the 20th century. Anagnostopoulou’s works are important in developing our understanding of how nations emerged from and with their Ottoman past.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS (page 7)
• INTRODUCTION (page 9)
• 'TYRANNY' AND 'DESPOTISM' AS NATIONAL AND HISTORICAL TERMS IN GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY (page 13)
• LES GRECS ET LA DOMINATION OTTOMANE XVIe- XIXe SIECLES. (page 23)
• THE TERMS MILLET, GENOS, ETHNOS, OIKOUMENIKOTITA, ALYTROTISMOS IN GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY (page 39)
• EGLISE CECUMENIQUE, EGLISE NATIONALE, LE PROBLEME DES RAPPORTS ENTRE RELIGION ET NATION DANS LES BALKANS, XIXeme DEBUT XXeme SIECLES. L'EXEMPLE GREC (page 59)
• THE PROCESS OF DEFINING IZMIR'S <>IN THE 19th c.-1919 (page 77)
• LES RAPPORTS DE L'EGLISE ORTHODOXE AVEC LE KAPUDAN PACHA (fin du XVIIIIe debut XIXe siecle) (page 105)
• CHYPRE DE L'ERE OTTOMANE A L'ERE BRITANNIQUE (1839-1914). LE ROLE DE L'EGLISE ORTHODOXE CHYPRIOTE (page 133)
• LE PROCESSUS DE LA FORMATION DE LA MEMOIRE NATIONALE GRECQUE CHEZ LES CHYPRIOTES GRECS (fin XIXe-debut XXe siecles) (page 165)
• THE CHURCH OF CYPRUS AND ITS 'ETHNARCHIC' ROLE: 1878-1960 (page 181)