At the outbreak of what would become known as the Greek Revolution, and what Ottoman authorities confronted as a Greek insurgency, Istanbul became the stage for a crisis that would reshape the Ottoman Empire and the eastern Mediterranean. An Ottoman Pompeii: The Greek Revolution and the Limits of Conviviality in 1821 Istanbul uncovers this moment through an extraordinary population register compiled in spring and early summer 1821, just as rebellion, reprisal, suspicion, and imperial surveillanc ...