Larissa is the most Ottoman town in Greece to the southward of Saloniki, having been the chief settlement of the Turks ever since the conquest of this part of the country previously to that of Constantinople. It then received the name of Yenishehér, which is still the official appellation.
[…] Although Yenishehér, in civil and military arrangement, is subordinate to Tirhala (Trikkala), which gives name to a live or district of the eyalét or province of Rumili, it has like many other places in Turkey, a jurisdiction separate from its district, the judicial and ecclesiastical affairs being in the hands of a Mollá, who is appointed like the pashás every year at the Kurbán Bairám, and whose maintenance being assigned upon a certain portion of the liva of Trikkala, has given to that portion the name of Mollalik. The civil power at Larissa is divided among several rich Beys styled the Ayans: the chief is Abdim, who possessing a large portion of the Relaspic plain, has no reason to envy the precarious fortune of any vezir in the empire.
