
Timeline
Key moments and milestones that shape the project throughout its journey of inquiry
1-5 July 2025, M. Athos

The Ottoman Zograf Workshop, held at the Holy Zograf Monastery on Mount Athos, focused on holistic digital approaches to the monastery’s archival collection, aligning with the project’s broader objective of examining monasteries as agents in the redistribution of wealth and power.
7-11 July 2025, Bucharest
16th International Congress of Ottoman Social and Economic History: Grigor Boykov presenting on Bulgaria's Ottoman-era Settlement and Population Geography; Chavdar Kirilov discussing archaeological and historical data about fortified settlements in the Eastern Balkans that remained in continuous use in the Ottoman period.
13 November 2025, Sarajevo

Grigor Boykov delivered a public lecture at the University of Sarajevo, moderated by Emir O. Filipović
20 January 2026, Vienna
In the framework of the Alevi History Lecture Series at the Department for Alevite Theology at the University of Vienna, Mariya Kiprovska explored the deep entanglements and long-standing networks between Balkan Muslim elite dynasties and non-conformist dervish orders.
20 February 2026, Vienna

From Mount Sinai and Mount Athos to the Pontifical Armenian College in Rome and the Melk Abbey; from Byzantine nunneries to the modern Romanian Church; from Arabic Christian manuscripts and palimpsests to Ottoman documents and Armeno-Turkish heritage preserved in Vienna: our workshop discussions spanned centuries, languages, and confessional worlds.








