The ‘Elders' Councils'

The ‘Elders' Councils', inCrete, wasan active institution for the last 40 years of the Ottoman rule (1858-1900). It was a particular institution of civic self-government, based on the series of privileges enjoyed, mainly, by Christian population, in order to avoid uplifts of national character and revolutionary uprising. The ruling class, elders, worthies and subsequent societies have beencited since the early Turkish rule, but there were not any corporate Elder's Councils.

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