Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Athens ta kasance a ƙarƙashin mulkin Ottoman ba tare da tsayawa ba tun daga 1456, ban da ɗan gajeren lokacin da Venetian ya mamaye shi a 1687<unk>1688, a lokacin Yaƙin Morean
Ka yi haƙuri. A karkashin mulkin Ottoman, an cire birnin daga kowane muhimmancinsa kuma galibi ana watsi da shi a matsayin "karamin gari" ta masana na zamani kamar Franz Babinger, amma wannan hoton ba daidai bane: yawan mutanen garin ya karu cikin sauri a cikin karni na 16, kuma tare da kasancewar gari na huɗu mafi girma na Ottoman a cikin Balkans, bayan babban birnin Constantinople, Adrianople, da Thessalonica. Aikin Venetian ya haifar da kusan watsi da garin saboda tsoron ramuwar gayya ta Ottoman, kuma ya fara murmurewa a hankali. A tsakiyar karni, garin ya ƙidaya mazauna, wanda kusan 4/5 na Greek Orthodox ne, watau Helenawa da wasu Arvanites - yawancin Arvanites a yankin Attica suna zaune a karkara maimakon a Athens kanta - da sauran "Turks", watau Musulmai ba tare da la'akari da asalin kabilanci ba, gami da Gypsies da "Aethiopians"; kazalika da 'yan Katolika (galibi' yan Yammacin Turai da ke zaune a cikin birni). Kamar dai babu al'ummar Yahudawa a Atina a lokacin.