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Collectivities and groups > Occupational groups > Historical occupational groups > Vourkacis

Preferred term

2643Vourkacis  

Broader concept

Scope note

  • Manufacturers and/or sellers of leather bags called “vourka” in the traditional societies of the Ottoman and early modern period. This profession declined with industrialization and the emergence and gradual prevalence of the respective modern specialties and professions.

Source

  • Ήμελλου & Πολυμέρου-Καμηλάκη 1983

Contributor

  • Katsiadakis Helen (AA)

Creator

  • Falierou Anastasia (AA)

Notation

  • 2643

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