One of the aims of the presentation was to discuss with the project members how to utilize historical maps of Büyükada in my research.
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Brown Bag Meetings
Contextualizing the culture of Orthodox Christian Monasticism in Büyükada in “the long nineteenth century”: Community of a religious order or source of revenue for bunch of “laymen”?
Irrigation in the Making of Ottoman Iraq: The Construction of the Hindiya Barrage (1891-1913)
This study investigates the role of irrigation practices in the Ottoman centralization attempts in Iraq between the years 1891 and 1914.
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Exploring and Visualizing the Wealth of the Rich in Bursa through Record Linkage and GIS, 1820-1840
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.
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Changes in the Military System of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th Century and Socio-Political Effects
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?
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Coping with Scarcity and Famines in Ottoman Anatolia ca. 1700-1900
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
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