The population and the Greek community of Thessaloniki in 1913

No abstract His diary book of C.P. Tattis was found recently among the belongings of his great granddaughter, Kalliopi (Poppi) Seremetis (1894-1978). Her maiden name was Tattis as she was the daughter of In April 1913, a few months after Thessaloniki was liberated from the Turkish occupation which lasted for five centuries, the Greek Minister of Justice, Konstantine Raktivan, acting as Governor General of Macedonia, held a census of the Thessaloniki population. Catalogues with the names of those who were used for the actual management of that census, unfortunately only the Greek ones, have been preserved in the Historical Archive of Macedonia, Thessaloniki. Those catalogues, issued by the Greek Metropolitan of Thessaloniki and various other institutions in the town, like the Greek Gymnasium, banks, clubs and guilds, give a rather detailed description of the Greek community in Thessaloniki, before the arrival of emmigrants from south Greece, and refugees from Asia Minor changed drastically the composition of the population in the town. The article includes those catalogues as well as several other details concerning the way the census was held, found in contemporary newspapers.