Balta, Evangelia

Evangelia Balta (born 24 July 1955, Kavala) is a Greek historian. Her researches focus on Ottoman socio-economic history, Rûm Orthodox culture in Anatolia, and Karamanlidika Studies. She is an honorary member of the Turkish Historical Society and was awarded an Order of Merit of the Republic of Turkey. Balta was born in Kavala in 1955. She studied at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1973–77 and at Paris I-Sorbonne, Department of Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes IV) with a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation for her master's and doctoral degrees from 1980-1983. Balta worked at the Historical Archive of Macedonia in 1979 and at the Centre for Asia Minor Studies in 1978 as well as from 1984-1987. She taught at the Ionian University in 1985-1987. Since 1987 she has been a researcher at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF). She was a member of Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC) in 2009–2010. In the following years, she organized three international symposiums on Karamanli Turkish, which has been her field of work since 1978. She has organized seminars on the Cunda Islands for Karamanlidika Studies since 2001.