This collection gathers the recent studies of Evangelia Balta, who has contributed since 1978 to the growing interest in Karamanlidika Studies through her research and publications. This interdisciplinary field, a branch of Ottoman Studies, covers history, literature, anthropology, and linguistics, exploring topics related to the history and culture of the Karamanlis or Karamanlidhes, the Turkish-speaking Orthodox Anatolians, who settled in Greece after the Treaty of Lausanne (1923). As one