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- Title
Supplying the city of Ioannina with 'modern' waters, 1913–1940: the 'modern infrastructural ideal' in a mid-size Greek town.
- Authors
Chatzis, Konstantinos; Mahera, Anna; Mavrogonatou, Georgia
- Abstract
A part of the Ottoman Empire for centuries, the city of Ioannina integrated into the Greek state following the Balkan wars of 1912–13. This article provides a first in-depth historical account of the city's water supply system from the early 1910s to the eve of World War II, and traces the path leading from a traditional system relying on private wells and public fountains to a modern water network entering inhabitants' homes. In doing so, it also offers material and insights contributing to a larger research project on the technological modernization of urban Greece in the inter-war period, during which the Greek state itself was driven by a particularly strong urge to modernize the country.
- Subjects
WATER management; WATER supply; OTTOMAN Empire
- Publication
Urban History, 2021, Vol 48, Issue 1, p71
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0963926819000816