Spring 201913 articles • Full-text open access
The geography of the Black Sea punctuated by river valleys presents a social and economic unity in a geography from coasts to plains. The highlands, the most important feature characterizing the nomadic (Konar-Göçer) Turkmen’s life, mark a space where this…
The Pontic Issue remained on the agenda during the years of National Struggle. The Pontic Greek gangs continued their activities in and around Samsun until the end of 1922. Grand National Assembly of Turkey (Parliament), the Government has taken some measures…
The Ottoman Empire used “exile” as a means of punishment among the precautions to achieve public security. The imposition of this kind of restriction can be examined in three ways. Firstly, after the conquest a part of the non-Muslim population in Trabzon was…
Trabzon tarih boyunca pek çok topluluğa ev sahipliği yapmış bir bölgedir. Haliyle yörede çeşitli kültürlerin izlerini görmek mümkündür. Trabzon’un sahil kesiminde ortaya çıkan yerleşim birimleri genelde ticari faaliyetler sonucu meydana gelmiş yerler olduğu…
One of the most important events recorded in the history of civilization was the conquest of Istanbul by Fatih Sultan Mehmet in 1453 and ended the Eastern Roman Empire. Shortly after 8 years, Fatih Sultan Mehmet, leading the soldiers, commanded his army and…
Russia was born from a little Moscow principality whose name was only known as the town border in the 12th century completed her formation in 14th and 16th centuries. In the mid of the 16th century during the reign of IV. Ivan (Terrible Ivan) the Muslim…
The first practice of quarantine in the Ottoman Empire started in 1831 in Istanbul after the establishment of institutionalization to protect public health in the capital, quarantine administrations were founded in many places throughout Anatolia. However…
A remarkable space was devoted to the developments about the Russo-Turkish War that started in 1806 as represented in the correspondences of Dupré, the first French consul in Trabzon. Dupré reported the Russian raids targeting Trabzon, apart from the…
This quantitative study, focusing on the members of the Chamber of Architects in Trabzon, their genders and their graduated schools, covered the years between 1963 when its first member was enrolled and 2014 that was the historical upper limit of the thesis…
The activities of civil associations in the Ottoman Empire emerged in parallel with the change and transformation that began with the Tanzimat period. After the proclamation of the constitutional monarchy II, various associations were established in the…
Transcaucasia (South Caucasus) has always been a chaotic region since the collapse of the Soviet Union. There are internal and external reasons for this status. As for the internal factors, a multi-fragmented and intertwined demographic structure in the…
Linen fabrics, known as the Trabzon diapers, were among the major weavings that were exported to nearby and far cities since the ancient times. In the written sources, it is known that the people living in the Eastern Black Sea coast from Trabzon to Batumi…
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