The Ottoman public administration witnessed considerable changes in history. We can divide this process into traditional and modern. In the traditional period, society was divided into two as military and reâya. However, there was a permeability between both…
The Ottoman public administration witnessed considerable changes in history. We can divide this process into traditional and modern. In the traditional period, society was divided into two as military and reâya. However, there was a permeability between both…
The name of the places is an important document that reflect the culture and the country of thepeoplewholivethere. Therefore, the Turkish peoplesettled in differentparts of the world and named those place sthat they ruled for a period of time related to their…
The Silistra province later known as Özi founded by the Ottoman Empire as a result of Western and Northwest Black Sea politics or the Province of Silistra, has been one of the major border states with political mobility from the beginning of the 17 th century…
Throughout history, the port of Trabzon has been one of the major commercial centers of the region extending into interior parts of Iran and has kept this position for a long time. After the Ottoman conquest of Trabzon, though commercial activities in the…
Clothing is one of the most important elements displaying national traits and indigenous characteristics of peoples’ religion and culture. Research in this field of study can decipher the signs of changes in such traditions up to day, which are still of…
Trabzon is one of the most important historical cities, situated in the eastern Black Sea region, Turkey. There are numerous historical monuments from the Byzantine and Ottoman periods of the city. Since the city is also a port destination, it has always been…
This article reviews the changes in the countryside during the 17 th century in the Ottoman Empire. It focuses on the concept of “title inflation” and examines the issue in order to explore these changes. The concept, attributed to the status of England in…
Available studies of the Turk-Ottoman sources on the history of Ukraine in the period of Cossacks have been presented and considered. The problem concerning development of the Oriental Studies has been analysed. There has been used a methodology that is a new…
There have been a few studies to date about the last days of the Giresun Castle, which has been one of the most important castles in the Black Sea region. This study therefore focuses on the physical and martial status of the castle between 1768 and 1840. The…
Almost five centuries of Romanian history are tightly related to the Ottoman one or, at least, under the sign of the relationships with the Ottoman Empire. The importance of their research doesn’t need any pleading, since they represent a way of better…
Black Sea had always attracted western governments attention in the fields of politics and trade. Especially France, Britain and Russia had serious conflicts over the domination of Black Sea. France had less information on the Black Sea in comparison to…
One of the important wars between the Otoman State and Russia is the war of 1853-1856. Although there are many reasons fort he outbreak of this war, the straw that broket he camel’s back was the Sinop Raid. On 30 November 1853, the Russian navy attacheked the…
The Russian pilgrims of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries showed a growing interest in the realia of the Holy Land itself and other visited areas of the Middle East. They looked not only ‘inward’ upon Holy Places representing them in traditional…
American Board, which was organized in 1810 in Boston, started to work over countries by a short time. From the earliest days of the American Board, the Ottoman State held a chief place in its work and the first American Board missionaries came to the Ottoman…