Spring 201514 articles • Full-text open access
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…
The Turkish population of Asia Minor comprised two large ethnic groups, the Oghuz, who were a majority, and the Kıpçaks. The latter received lesser attention from modern scholars, yet their presence is still visible in the local Turkish dialects of…
Çev. Murat Keçiş Makalenin Orijinali: Elizabeth A. Zachariadou, “Noms Coumans à Trébizonde”, Revue des Études Byzantines (RÉB) , 53, (1995), s. 285-288.
19th century industrialization affected the commercial course of the world revolution through the implementation of the power steam technology as well as affecting social and political mobility across the large regions of the Ottoman geography. As a result of…
Monasteries are one of the foundations that served as a force during the process of Islamization. Seven monasteries are built in and around the city by dervishes among the Muslim groups of people that settled down in the city following the conquest. These…
Forming an alliance with the Ottoman Empire, Germany joined the First World War with the aim of removing Russians from the Caucasus in line with her East policy. With this purpose, both states have entered into various joint activities during the war. One of…
“Of” is a coastal town emerged in the 19th century. Throughout history, the town remained under the control of various states. Similarly, there were signs to indicate that, within same region, several communities existed. However, these developments occured…
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 study aims to deal with the social and economic status of Armenians who were the citizens of Ottoman Empire and lived together with Muslims in Çarşamba and Yaykıl towns of Sinop in Anatolia at the time. During the period under examination, the Armenians…
A huge ammunition depot exploded in Trabzon on July 10, 1919. The effects of the explosion were seen even in Batumi, 100 miles distant. There were many weapons and ammunition left by the Russian army in the ammunition depot. The explosion of the ammunition…
The eastern Black Sea is a region where erosions often occur due to the structure of the soil. The first erosion occurred in Of-Sürmene in the year 1929 during the early Republican period. Nobody became aware of the disaster in time, which signposts the…
The newspaper “Samsun’da Piyasa,” each issue of which consists of only four pages, is a kind of weekly commercial journal publishing commercial news and articles under the subtitles of “piyasa cetveli”, “bend-i ticari” and “commercial news.” This newspaper…
Growing commercial activity in the second half of the 19th century revealed inadequate conditions of the Çömlekçi Port by which a great part of the Trabzon’s trade realized in this period. The first infrastructure works was carried at the port during and…
ALİ ŞÜKRÜ BEY: HÜRRİYET UĞRUNA 39 YIL , Necmettin Alkan- Uğur Üçüncü (Haz.) Trabzon Büyükşehir Belediyesi, İstanbul 2015, 330 s. ISBN: 978-605-4925-49-0 Veysel Usta