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The port-city in the fields: investigating an improper urbanity in mid-nineteenth-century Cyprus

Among the many locations that the late Ottoman Mediterranean offers for consideration to historians of port-cities, the Cypriot city of Larnaca/Tuzla, with its trade station of Scala/İskele, is a perplexing case-study. Barely larger than a borough in size, it seems it was absorbed in its countryside confines – not only economically speaking (as was the case with many other hinterlands), but also with regard to the use of cross-border legal notions and the establishment of complex social solidarities. Ottoman and consular archives shed light on the range of these landholding, money-lending and networking operations, while allowing us to analyse their wording and phrasing. As a result, one gains insight into the multilayered semantics and pragmatics of an unsettling urbanity.