This book analyses the processes of formation consolidation and dissolution of the migrant
community in Ancona a sixteenth-century Italian port city connecting it to the wider
development that took place in Europe and the Mediterranean. The book initially looks at why
migrants decided to leave their homelands in parts of the Aegean region ruled by the Ottoman
Venetian and Genoese it then goes on to describe the mechanisms of settlement professional
insertion and integration that migrants undertook in the social fabric of their new host city.
The book examines how migrants organised themselves into a devotional confraternity and the
role this institution played in the growth of the community. Finally it looks at how the
community dissolved during the late sixteenth century faced with increasing pressure from the
reformed Catholic clergy after the Council of Trent. Offering fresh insights into the history
of Greek diaspora this book explores the dynamics of migration andcommunity in the early
modern Mediterranean through the lens of social connections.
