Mapping Europe with Love: Spaces and Conjunctions between Smyrna and Munich

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Pages:: 171–196

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004543690_010

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In this article the question of forced and voluntary migration and mobility in changeful times will be discussed from the case study of a woman’s biography and the transnational networks of her family. As the daughter of a Greek mother and a father from Habsburg monarchy, Aspasia, who was born in Athens in 1891, grew up in Ottoman Smyrna. In 1910 she spent a year abroad in Munich and felt in love with Wilhelm Boeck.Back at the Aegean coastshe reported about life in the cosmopolitan port city and its surroundings from 1911 to 1918 in 270 letters to her fiancé in Munich.

Aspasia, called Aspa, opens insights about her experiences of contemporary empires (British, Ottoman, Austrian-Hungary, Russian), religions (Orthodox, Protestant, Catholic, Muslim), kingdoms/nations (Greece, Italy, Germany), and their markings and negotiations in Smyrna’s everyday life. Aspa left home in 1918 via Constantinople, other members of her family and friends were forced to flee in 1922 when Smyrna was burnt down. The Schönwald House in the European quarter was located close to where everything was destroyed by fire. Even though this catastrophe is almost forgotten, the woman’s biography can be seen as writing transnational history by mapping Europe with love.

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Population Displacements and Multiple Mobilities in the Late Ottoman Empire

Series: The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, Volume: 77

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004543690

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 18 May 2023

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Part 1 Population Movements and Migrants as Assets

Part 2 Differentiating and Hierarchizing People on the Move

Part 3 Reinterpreting Population Displacements

Part 4 Lives beyond Borders

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