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There seems in the III. century A.D. a warlike people called Boranoi, who then attacked onto Trabzon and its surroundings together with the Goths, used to live in the northeastern coastal region of the Black Sea. There is no more detail about this people, and…
The Mongolian rule in Anatolia started after the Kösedağ War in 1243 and lasted until the beginning of the 14 th century. During this period, the political condition of the Eastern Black Sea region, like the other parts of the country, changed to a great…
In the 1240s-1260s, most of the Turkmens, who had been ousted from Central Asia by the Mongol invasion, rather rapidly (during one generation) crossed Anatolia from the east to the west and stopped in the Byzantine-Saljuq borderland. Some of them started the…
The existence of the present small towns along the Eastern Black Sea coast is the result of the political, social and economic developments that started from the 18 th century. One of the coastal settlements, which stood as a quay and marketplace, was Of. The…
The population mobility in the Ottoman Empire is closely linked to social and political changes. The mobility in population always played a major role in the transformations of the societies. In 19 th century the major factor that affected the population…
From the 16 th century onwards the Ottoman Empire did not manage to keep up with the changes and developments in the western world and this caused many social, political, economic and international problems. One of the most important problems for the Ottomans…
The Anatolian cities before the 19 th century were gathered around the river valleys. There were few port cities. During this period, Sinop and Trabzon in the south of the Black Sea were important. Ottomans adoption of free market economy from the second half…
The Ottoman Empire had to deal with the Armenian problem during her last years. The main aim of the pretenders of the problem was to place the image of tyrant Turk-innocent Armenian in the western public opinion. By doing so the Ottoman Empire was going to be…
İbrahim Tellioğlu, OSMANLI HAKİMİYETİNE KADAR DOĞU KARADENİZ’DE TÜRKLER, Serander Yayınları, Trabzon, 2004, LIX+232 s.