Editing Larissa (section)

=== Ottoman period ===
Larissa was conquered by the [[Ottoman Empire]] in 1386/87 and again in the 1390s, but only came under permanent Ottoman control in 1423, by [[Turahan Bey]].<ref name="EI2">{{EI2 | title=Yeñi Shehir | last=Savvides | first=A. | volume = 11 | page=333}}</ref> Under Ottoman rule, the city was known as ''Yeni-şehir i-Fenari'', "new citadel". As the chief town and military base of [[Sanjak of Tirhala|Ottoman Thessaly]], Larissa was a predominantly Muslim city.<ref name="EI2" /> In 1521 ([[Hijri year|Hijri]] 927) the town had 693 Muslim and 75 Christian households;<ref>{{Cite book |last=Minkov |first=Anton |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191947039 |title=Conversion to Islam in the Balkans : Kisve bahası petitions and Ottoman social life, 1670-1730 |date=2004 |isbn=1-4237-1251-X |location=Leiden |publisher=Brill |page=49 |oclc=191947039}}</ref> according to Gökbilgin (1956), it also included [[Albanians|Albanian]] and [[Sephardic Jews|Jewish]] communities.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=GÖKBİLGİN |first=M. TAYYİB |date=1956 |title=KANUNÎ SULTAN SÜLEYMAN DEVRİ BAŞLARINDA RUMELİ EYALETİ, LİVALARI, ŞEHİR VE KASABALARI |url=https://belleten.gov.tr/tam-metin-pdf/1214/tur |journal=Belleten |volume=20 |issue=78 |page=278 |issn=0041-4255 |eissn=2791-6472 }}</ref> During Ottoman rule the administration of the [[Metropolis of Larissa and Tyrnavos|Metropolis of Larissa]] was transferred to nearby [[Trikala]] where it remained until 1734, when Metropolitan Iakovos II returned the see from Trikala to Larissa and established the present-day metropolis of Larissa and Tyrnavos.

The town was noted for its trade fair in the 17th and 18th centuries, while the seat of the pasha of Thessaly was also transferred there in 1770.<ref name="EI2"/> Larissa was the headquarters of [[Hurshid Pasha|Hursid Pasha]] during the [[Greek War of Independence]]. It was also renowned for its [[mosque]]s (four of which were still in use in the late 19th century) and its [[muslim]] cemeteries.{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}

The city remained a part of the Ottoman Empire until [[Thessaly]] [[Convention of Constantinople (1881)|became part]] of the independent [[Kingdom of Greece (Glücksburg)|Kingdom of Greece]] in 1881, except for a period where Ottoman forces re-occupied it during the [[Greco-Turkish War (1897)|Greco-Turkish War of 1897]].<ref name="EI2"/> In the late 19th century, there was still a small village in the outskirts of the town inhabited by Africans from [[Sudan]], a curious remnant of the forces collected by [[Ali Pasha of Ioannina|Ali Pasha]].

In the 19th century, the town produced [[leather]], [[cotton]], [[silk]] and [[tobacco]]. Fevers and agues were prevalent owing to bad drainage and the overflowing of the river; and the death rate was higher than the birth rate.{{Dubious|date=February 2010}}