Evangelia Balta

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.

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.

[3][4] In the following years, she organized three international symposiums on Karamanli Turkish, which has been her field of work since 1978.