Note 67 — Chapter I · THE CHARACTER OF THE OTTOMAN STATE IN GENERAL

For the times when these different “communities” were formed within the Ottoman state, see Steen de Jehay, passim. In brief, the Greek community was organized in 1453 and the Armenian in 1461. The latter was at first supposed to include all subjects who were not Moslem or Greek Orthodox; those who were not Gregorian Armenians were gradually separated off by a process of differentiation which may be said to be active still. With the growth of the spirit of nationalism in the nineteenth century, the Greek Orthodox community has also been divided.