Abstract

When one considers the relations between Greeks and Turks during the Ottoman period, one is surprised to see how little evidence there is of literary contact. The impact of the Turkish language on the vernacular language of the subject population is well documented. But at a higher level, one has the impression that the two communities lived in almost complete ignorance of each other's cultural traditions, literature, and literary language. Indeed, there is hardly a single recorded instance of a member of one community using the literary language of the other as a medium of literary expression.1 Admittedly, the literary languages of the two communities-on

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