Acknowledgements. List of tables (locations indexed). Abbreviations and short titles. Notes. Part 1. Overview. 1. Introduction. Time span. Why Athens? The main areas covered in the book Government. Class and politics. Hacı Ali haseki. 2. Main sources. Travellers. Venetian archives. Δημήτριος Καμπούρογλου (1852-1942). Ιωάννης Μπενιζέλος (c.1735-1806). Παναγής Σκουζές (1777-1847). Relevant modern publications. Gaps in the sources. 3. Εconomic activity. The major businesses. Other agricultural products. The bazaar. Other trades and professions. 4. Relations between Greeks and Turks. 5. Class. Kambouroglou’s account of the class system. The upper class. The second class, the νοικοκυραίοι. Boundary between the second class and those below it. The villages. Summary on class. 6. Government. Appointment of the governor. The προεστώτες. Part 2. Chronicle from 1753 to 1821. 7. Introduction to Part 2. Before 1753:  A golden age? Introductory note. Notable individuals. 8. 1752-1763: The war of Sarı Muselim and its aftermath. 1752-1754: The fall of Moralı Beşir ağa and the war of Sarı Muselim. 1755-1763: Good years, relatively speaking. 9. 1764-1770: Foreign consulships and archbishop Βαρθολομαίος. 1764: Foreign consulships and Βαρθολομαίος. 1764-1768:  Βαρθολομαίος, Δημήτριος Γάσπαρης and the consulship of Athens. 1767-1768:  Economic boom years. 1768-1770:  The paşa of Chalkida, and Βαρθολομαίος, again. 10. 1770-1778:  War with Russia – the coming of Hacı Ali. 1770: The war with Russia – initial difficulties but life goes on. 1771:  Μητρομάρας. 1772-1773:  Osman Makfi. 1774:  Makfi and Hacı Ali, the start. 1775:  Hacı Ali’s first term as governor. 1776:  Hacı Ali works at being reinstated. 1777:  Hacı Ali’s second term as governor and the battle with the Albanians. Firearms and, separately, appointment of the προεστώτες. 1778:  Hacı Ali’s third term as governor – the building of a wall round the town. 1775-78:  Elements of Skouzes’s account. 11. 1778-1785: Hacı Ali loses, regains,  then loses the governorship.  Deaths of Βαρθολομαίος and of Osman Makfi. 1778-1779:  Class antagonism, Greeks and Turks, and Hacı Ali again dismissed. Hacı Ali’s relationship with the προεστώτε1780-1781:  The death of Βαρθολομαίος and the appointment of Βενέδικτος. 1782:  Hacı Ali regains the governorship. 1782-1784:  Hacı Ali’s fourth term as governor, and his rupture with Makfi. 1784-1785:  The capture and death of Makfi, and its aftermath.  Hacı Ali goes to the Capital. 12. 1785:  Revolution. The establishment of a new regime in Athens, finally under Μπέλος and Bekir. Supported by Esma, Hacı Ali does well in the Capital. Other sources for the story of Makfi. Hacı Ali falters, but then goes on the attack. Dismissal of Βενέδικτος. Μπέλος and Bekir overplay their hand. The strict measures of Esma and Hacı Ali continue.  Αθανάσιος joins the rebels. A stand-off at the walls of Athens. Αθανάσιος and Zayım Ali ağa in Athens. 13. Intervention of Beyhan Sultan, and a change in the grand vizier: bad consequences for Hacı Ali; but then the end of the revolution. Hacı Ali forced to take refuge. 1786:  Imprisonment of the old προεστώτες  the new regime’s control of the governorship. 1787:  Halil ağa’s second term as governor and the return of Βενέδικτος. 1788:  Halil ağa’s third (interrupted) term as governor and the end of the revolution. Skouzes’s treatment of the regime of Μπέλος and Bekir. 14. 1789:  Hacı Ali takes up the governorship for the fifth time. Famine and plague. The British ambassador again, and Βενέδικτος. A phantom προεστώτες election. Resumption of the tyranny. 1789-90: Benizelos’s account of the tyranny. 1789-1790: Skouzes’s account of the plague, and of the tyranny. 15. Hacı Ali is called to provide military service; defends Athens against attack by Halil paşa; is banished from Athens. Σκλαβούνος and Halil paşa. Hacı Ali banished, and goes to Istanbul. Issues of dating. Starting again in 1792. 16. 1793-1799: The tyranny as before; Hacı Ali fails to displace the bostancı başı; Διονύσιος Πετράκης goes to the Capital; the fall and execution of Hacı Ali and its aftermath. Failed attempt to supplant the bostancı başı. Hacı Ali makes the moves that are finally going to lead to his fall. 1795 The compatriots, and the involvement of Mustafa Reşid; Hacı Ali is executed. 1796-1799  More disorder, but the threat of another autocracy is averted. 17. 1800-1812 The προεστώτες, Λογοθέτης, Elgin, the French. The προεστώτες and the governor. Σπυρίδων Λογοθέτης. Hunt’s mission, Mustafa Reşid and Mehmed Raşid. Anglo-French rivalries. 18. The Greek enlightenment touches Athens. The Ντέκα school. The school at Mount Pelion. The Filomousos Society of Athens. The philosophical school. The Vienna Society. Athens remains relatively unenlightened. 19. 1813-1821  Class war. The election of the προεστώτες in 1815. The election of the προεστώτες in February 1818. The election of the προεστώτες in February 1819, and the Πρακτικόν. 1820, two elections in quick succession. The fall of Νικόλαος Λογοθέτης, and the election of December 1820. 20. The end of the story. Part 3. Appendices. Appendix 1:  Greek and Turkish pronunciation. Appendix 2:  Associations of tradesmen, or guilds. Appendix 3:  British consuls in Athens from around 1700. Appendix 4:  Money. Appendix 5:  Letters from and to clerics, 1776-1780 and 1786-1792. Appendix 6:  Ottoman documents, from Hacı Ali’s falling out with Makfi to the hearings in the Capital following the latter’s death. Appendix 7:  Governors. Appendix 8: Προεστώτες/Επίτροποι. Bibliography. Index of personal names.