Kydonia/Ayvalik Academy (1803-1821): Education for the new Miletus (2020) describes the school and its functions in the beginning of the 19th century. 

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The book is a detailed study of those who managed the Academy, notably Benjamin of Lesbos and Theophilos Kairis, all those who contributed to make this place a center for the Greek enlightenment before the Revolution and the methods and purposes of its education.

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The Academy received support from Ambroise Firmin-Didot (from the famous French typographer family), Adamantios Korais (the mentor of Greek uprising) and many testimonies of its importance are gathered in the book.

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It hosted important characters of the upcoming Greek nation: the first Greek intellectual woman Evanthia Kairis, the first typographer of free Greece Konstantinos Tombras and formed the future teachers, statesmen and religious figures of the independent State.

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