Siderokapisi

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NB: Minna Rozen lists the location of Siderokapısı as "some eight kilometers southeast of Thessaloniki," but this geographical association does not seem possible (Rozen, The Corvée of Operating the Mines in Siderokapısı, 37). The mining town in question was likely much further east in the Chalkidiki peninsula, where the Ottoman "Siderokapısı" or "Sidrekapsi" mint was also located (possibly Stratoniki, Stratoni, or Sidiriolakkos). A map of this mint's location in Şevket Pamuk's work supports the latter locations as possible candidates: Pamuk, A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire, 91.