This study concerns the transitional period from the Late Frankish Rule to the Early Ottoman Rule (15th century) in Eastern Central Greece, using the region of Boeotia as a case study.

The historian's "lens" focuses more on the establishment of the new power (the Ottoman) in this area and captures the image of it (geographical, political-administrative, demographic, economic, and cultural), as it emerges from indisputable sources.

Here you will encounter a specific residential network (villages with surnames), a specific multi-national and multi-cultural society, specific names of common people, demographics in numbers, its products, and its obligations to the authority in quantities, the market of the city and the countryside, the circulation of goods, a tangible world and a truth with elements.

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