Industrialisation and Urban Growth from the mid-nineteenth century Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey in a Comparative Perspective

Third Meeting of the European Network for the Comparative History of Population Geography and Occupational Structure (1500-1900)

Uygar Karaca has participated in European Historical Economics Society Conference with the presentation "Regional aspects of demographic and structural transformation in Bulgaria between 1878-1956”

One of the aims of the presentation was to discuss with the project members how to utilize historical maps of Büyükada in my research.

This study investigates the role of irrigation practices in the Ottoman centralization attempts in Iraq between the years 1891 and 1914.

M. Erdem Kabadayı and Piet Gerrits presented a paper on “Geo‐Spatial‐Mining of Historical Maps and Texts: Comparing 16th c. Ottoman military logistics with 19th c. transport infrastructure in Southeast Europe” at the GeoPortOst workshop in The Leibniz Institute for East and Sou

This paper revolves around the probate inventories of three rich people died in the city of Bursa in the period from 1820 to 1840: An Ex-Qadi of Plovdiv, a daughter of an ulama family, and an Armenian cloth merchant. Its aims are threefold.

The Ottomans left vast archives of administrative documents, much of which remains unexplored. Digital technologies (GIS) can help explore these archival materials to ask new questions regarding historical developments in such areas as demography, urbanization, trade, or milita

Did the Ottoman army really modernize after the abolition of Janissaries? After the establishment of Mansure, how did the Ottoman society transform? Has the state systematically tried to militarize society?

On 13 November 2018, Semih Çelik presented the archival sources and methodologies he intended to use for a paper he has been working on, on the economic history of famine resilience in Ottoman Anatolia from a longue-duree perspective, covering a period from early-1600s until mi

Osman Özkan participated in the Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes (CIEPO) conference in Sofia to present the paper referenced below. “İdâre-i Mahsûsa Vapur Şirketi’nin Ulaşım Ağı ve CBS Tabanlı Mekânsal Analizi”, presented by Osman Özkan.

Project team members M. Erdem Kabadayı and Uygar Karaca have presented the following papers at the WEHC 2018 in Boston.