Public Health in Crete under the rule of Mehmed Ali in the 1830’s
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Between 1830 and 1840 Crete was under the rule of Mehmet Ali. During this short period the Egyptian administration of Crete introduced modernizing reforms in the island’s economy and society. The proposed paper will examine the traces of these reforms as depicted in the Vekayi Giridiya, the first bilingual newspaper published in the Ottoman Empire in Ottoman and Greek languages and one of the first newspapers published in the Ottoman Empire following the publication of the Vekayi Misiriya in Cairo, one source previously ignored or unknown by historians. Among the most important reforms depicted in the newspaper and discussed in the paper was modernizing public health on the island. It will be argued that the attempt to reform public health on the island was an effort to transfer in Crete a modernising model already in place in Egypt.
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Panagiotis Krokidas et Athanasios Gekas, « Public Health in Crete under the rule of Mehmed Ali in the 1830’s », Égypte/Monde arabe, Troisième série, 4 | 2007, [En ligne], mis en ligne le 31 décembre 2008. URL : http://ema.revues.org/index1751.html. Consulté le 03 décembre 2008.
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