Elizabeth Zachariadou


Elizabeth A. Zachariadou was a Greek scholar on Turkish studies, specializing in the early Ottoman Empire.

Biography

In 1966, she married the Byzantinist Nikolaos Oikonomides, with whom she went to Canada following the 1967 coup and the establishment of the Regime of the Colonels in Greece.
After studying at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, she became professor of Turkish studies at the University of Crete from 1985 to 1998, and along with Vasilis Dimitriadis one of the co-founders of the Turkish Studies program of the Institute of Mediterranean Studies in Rethymno. In 1990, she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ankara, and became a member of Academia Europaea in 1993.

Works

Το Χρονικό των Τούρκων Σουλτάνων και το ιταλικό του πρότυπο, Thessaloniki 1960Trade and Crusade, Venetian Crete and the Emirates of Menteshe and Aydin , Venice 1983Romania and the Turks , Variorum Reprints, London 1985, Ιστορία και θρύλοι των παλαιών σουλτάνων, 1300-1400, Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece, 1991. Δέκα τουρκικά έγγραφα για την Μεγάλη Εκκλησία - Ten Turkish documents concerning the Great Church , Hellenic National Research Institute: Institute for Byzantine Research, 1996, Studies in pre-Ottoman Turkey and the Ottomans, Ashgate Variorum, 2007
  • with Anthony Luttrell, Πηγές για την τουρκική ιστορία στα αρχεία των Ιπποτών της Ρόδου, 1389-1422 - Sources for Turkish History in the Hospitallers' Rhodian Archive, 1389-1422, Hellenic National Research Institute: Institute for Byzantine Research, 2009
  • with Gülsün Ayvali, Antonis Xanthynakis, Το χρονικό των Ουγγροτουρκικών πολέμων , Crete University Press, Rethymno 2005,
As an editor, she was responsible for the publication of the first four international symposia held by the Turkish Studies program of the Institute of Mediterranean Studies: The Ottoman Emirate, ca. 1300–1389. Halcyon Days in Crete I: A Symposium Held in Rethymnon, 11–13 January 1991, Crete University Press, Rethymno 1994, The Via Egnatia under Ottoman Rule, 1380–1699. Halcyon Days in Crete II: A Symposium Held in Rethymnon, 9–11 January 1994, Crete University Press, Rethymno 1997 Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire. Halcyon Days in Crete III: A Symposium Held in Rethymnon, 10–12 January 1997, Crete University Press, Rethymno 1999, The Kapudan Pasha: His Office and Ηis Domain. Halcyon Days in Crete IV: A Symposium held in Rethymnon, 7–9 January 2000, Crete University Press, Rethymno 2002,