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There is ample evidence that Greek language schools operated in many places of the Ottoman Empire, especially after mid-18th century. However, there are indications that local Ottoman authorities in the periphery were unfavorable toward schools. For example, an 1820 article referring to the formidable school of Melies (Central Greece) describes it as "favorable to a retreat of the Muses [because] It is remote from the jealous eye of the Turkish governor, and still more secured from his encroachments by certain privileges and immunities, which have been granted to the town by the government." There were restrictions; in Ottoman Epirus in 1913, for example, the authorities required that books come from Ottoman Constantinople rather than from Athens in independent Greece, so some teachers gave political instruction in secret.
Nonetheless, it is sometimes said in Greece today that the Ottoman authorities prohibited education in the languages of non-Muslim subject peoples, obliging Greeks to organize small, secret schools in monasteries and churches. Supposed sites of such secret schools are today shown in many places in Greece, notably at the Philosophou Monastery in Dimitsana. These schools are often credited, specially by the Greek Church, with having played a decisive role in keeping Greek language and literacy alive through the period of Turkish rule.
Angelou claims that the first mention of such schools has been traced to 1825, in a work of the German scholar Carl Iken, quoting information given to him by a Greek scholar, Stephanos Kanellos. An earlier mention of repressed education of Greeks is found in a speech of Konstantinos Oikonomou, in 1821. He says that schools in Ottoman Empire operated under the pretext of teaching religion and commerce, some of them were kept open through bribing influential Turks, and that the official school of Smyrna was persecuted because it taught mathematics and philosophy. In 1823, Greek scholar Michel Schinas, in 1823, describes the obstacles imposed to Greek schools by local Ottoman authorities. Due to these hindrances, "pupils and teachers retreated in the darkness to avoid the encounter of denunciation". Apart from the Greeks, also Albanians under Ottoman rule operated secret schools in the late 19th century, organized by Bektashi priests
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Greek language was predominantly used by Ottomans, it was second language after Turkish
Mehmed II, Ali Pasha Tepelena, Mustafa Khaznadar, Hayredin Barbarossa and thousands other officials used both Turkish and Greek.
Greek language is language of Ottomans that eventually in Attaturk Reforms got completely replaced by Turkish language.
If Greek language schools existed it were used for the purposes of Ottomans
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Erdogan builds a Mosque a day in Albania and ships in Imams to push the Muslim Turkish Caliphate.
Erdogan + Rama = Ottoman Love
Southern Albania is completely Hellenized. From the food, to the music, to the clothes, to the culture. Southern Albos have not left the Greeks alone. Katsifas was not too long ago. Neither was damaging the Thymios Liolis monument in Kranë in Finiq.
Three camps are being put on the Greek / Albanian Border. Here is the map:
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