Aristotle Koskinas on Greek History
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
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Athens and the Ottoman Empire
Every year the automon treasury would have the that they had in the budget rerin the would an bather of collecting it. So you had these antemprners, usually members of the ottoman elit who would hire other people to do the the terdisob to be the facade. The dirty were here. And then with coming back to athens this these people would collect the taxes onneuspecting a lot more than forty no nod for 60, 70 thousand. Because they had not only to make a profit, they also had to come up with the money to pay the other automan officials who were their superior so they would gat they would get that that granted
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