Archival sources
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Correspondence
Email from Monk Theologos Iverites, the librarian and archivist of Iveron Monastery, dated 3 and 15 May 2023.
Email from Monk Evgenios Iverites, the assistant librarian and archivist of Iveron Monastery, dated 3 May 2022, 10 August 2022, 7 and 13 May 2023.
In-person interview with current owner of the former metochion of Portaïtissa, 24 August 2022.
Official letter from the Archivist the Grand Archimandrite Dr. Agathangelos Siskos of the Patriarchal Archive of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Phanar, Istanbul, no 61, dated 7 October 2022.
Published Sources and thesis
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Articles and Book Chapters
Achladi Evangelia, 2022, “Rum Communities of Istanbul in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Historical Survey”, in Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, vol. 9 (1), p. 19-49.
Alexander (Alexandroupoulos) John C., 1997, “The Lord Giveth and the Lord Taketh Away: Athos and the Confiscation Affair of 1568-1569”, in Ο Άθως στους 14ο-16οΑιώνες [Athos in the 14th-16th Centuries], Αθωνικά Σύμμεικτα [Athonite Assemblies] 4, The National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, p. 149-200.
Androudis Paschalis [Ανδρούδης Πασχάλης] & Simonopetritis Monk Kosmas [Σιμονοπετρίτης Κοσμάς], 2020, “Άγνωστες μαρτυρίες για το μετόχι της Μονής Βατοπεδίου στο Πόρτο Λάγος στους βυζαντινούς και οθωμανικούς χρόνους” [Unknown testimonies about the metochia of the Vatopedi Monastery in Porto Lagos in Byzantine and Ottoman times], in Makedonika, p. 91-148.
Bury John Bagnell, 1897, “Iveron and Our Lady of the Gate”, in Hermathena, vol. 10, p. 71-99.
Clogg Richard, 1972, “Two Accounts of the Academy of Ayvalık in 1818-1819,” in Revue des études sud-est européennes, vol. 10, p. 633-667.
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İnce-Güney Yasemin, 2016, “Appropriation and Authenticity: The case of Transforming Churches into Mosques in Ayvalık”, in Iconarp International Journal of Architecture & Planning, vol. 4 (2), p. 35-57.
Iverites Elder Maximos, 2023, “Οἱ Ἰβηρῖται Νεοσιομάρτυρες τῆς Μικρασιατικῆς Μαύρης Βίβλου τοῦ 1922 – 1-4 ov” [The Iberian New Martyrs of the Asia Minor Black Book of 1922 -1-4], in Ορθόδοξος Τύπος [Orthodox Press].
Iverites Monk Theologos, 2014, “Άγνωστη υμναγιολογική παραγωγή του Αγίου Όρους από τα μέσα του 18ου αι. Έως το 1927 μέσα από τα έργα έξ ιυμνογράφων” [Unknown hymno-hagiographical production of Mount Athos from the mid-18th century to 1927 in the works of six hymnographers], in Άγιον Όρος και Λογιοσύνη. Πρακτικά Συνέδριου. Θεσσαλονίκη 22-24 Νοέμβριου 2013 [Mount Athos and Scholarship. Conference Proceedings Thessaloniki 22-24 November 2013], Mount Athos Centre, Thessaloniki.
Kermeli Eugenia, 2000, “The Confiscation and Repossession of Monastic Properties in Mount Athos and Patmos Monasteries, 1568-1570,” in Bulgarian Historical Review, vol. 28 (3-4), p. 39-53.
Kotzageorgis Phokion, 2004, “Ένα Αγιορείτικο Μετόχι στη Κομοτηνή” [An Athonite Metochion in Komotini], in Περί Θράκης: Επιστημονική περιοδική έκδοση 16 [About Thrace : Scientific periodical publication 16], p. 279-288.
Morack Ellinor, 2020, “Claiming ‘imagined property’: Tasfiye Talebnames and the Lost Material World of Migrants after the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange,” in Diyâr, vol. 1 (1), p. 129-152.
Morack Ellinor, 2015, “Refugees, Locals and ‘the’ State: Property Compensation in the Province of Izmir Following the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange of 1923,” in Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, vol. 2 (1), p. 147-166.
Steppan Thomas, 1994, “Überlegungen zur Ikone der Panhagia Portaitissa im Kloster Iwiron am Berg Athos”, in Naredı-Raıner Paul von (ed.), Sinnbild und Abbild. Zur Funktion des Bildes, Kunstgeschichtliche Studien-Innsburg (Veroffentlichungen der Universitat Innsburg, 198), Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, p. 23-49.
Uçar Hatice, 2005, “Ayvalık'ta bir Kilise Restorasyonu” [A Church Restoration in Ayvalık], in Atatürk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi [Journal of Social Sciences Institute of Atatürk University], vol. 6 (2), p. 49 – 59.
Uçar Hatice, 2014, “Ayvalık'ta Hagia Triada Kilisesi Mimari Analizi” [Architectural analysis of Haghia Triada Ayvalik Church], in Trakya University Journal of Engineering Sciences, vol. 15 (1), p. 7-18.
Vocotopoulos Panagiotis, 1996, “Note sur l'icône de la Vierge Portaitissa”, in Zograf, vol. 25, p. 27-30.
“Ἡ ἐξακτίνωση τοῦ Ἁγίου Ὄρους στὸν κόσμο : τὰ μετόχια” [The radiation of Mount Athos in the world : the metochia], 2015, in Πρακτικὰ Θ΄Διεθνοῦς Ἐπιστημονικοῦ Συνεδρίου [IXth international scientific Congress Acts], MountAthosCenter, Thessaloniki, 36 p.
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