The paper tackles the issue of national politicization in late Ottoman Thrace through the case study of Stenimahos (Istanimaka, Stanimaka), a large mountainous village in Northern Thrace, whose Greek-speaking inhabitants initiated during the 1860s a long tradition of anti-Ottoman nationalist militancy and a close relation to independent Greece. The rapid national politicization and radicalization of the Stenimahiote Greeks was triggered by a severe reproduction crisis of the local economy in the context of mounting incorporation of the Ottoman empire into the world economy. Ensuing conflicts in local society were successively articulated into the unstable ‘post-Crimean war’ regional, imperial and international contexts. Last but not least, the analysis of the ‘amphibious’ emigration movement of the Stenimahiotes to Greece which followed the crisis reveals the agency of the non-elite subjects and challenges idealist and ‘top-bottom’ approaches to the process to nation formation in the late Ottoman Balkans.

中文翻译：

---

巴尔干村落中的民族：19 世纪中叶奥斯曼色雷斯的民族政治化

本文通过对色雷斯北部大山村斯泰尼马霍斯（Stanimaka）的案例研究来解决奥斯曼帝国晚期色雷斯的民族政治化问题，该村庄的希腊居民在 1860 年代发起了长期的反奥斯曼民族主义战斗传统与独立的希腊关系密切。在奥斯曼帝国越来越多地融入世界经济的背景下，当地经济的严重再生产危机引发了 Stenimahiote 希腊人的快速民族政治化和激进化。随之而来的地方社会冲突被接连在不稳定的“克里米亚战争后”地区、帝国和国际背景中。最后但并非最不重要的，