Papers by nuray ocaklı
Creation — Re-Creation is the theme for the 2024 Australian Association for Jewish Studies Conference , 2024
The Romaniote Jews of Kastoria were recorded in the first Ottoman cadastral survey of their homet... more The Romaniote Jews of Kastoria were recorded in the first Ottoman cadastral survey of their hometown dated to the first reign of Sultan Murad II (1421-1444). An updated record in the fief register of Macedonia indicates that they set on a journey to a new life in Istanbul in the spring of 1455. The earliest detailed source of information on the new life of the Kastorian Jews is the late 16th century poll-tax register of the Jewish communities in Istanbul whose tax revenues were allocated to the endowment of Sultan Mehmed II. Many details about the physical characteristics of the Kastorian Jews and their new life were meticulously recorded in the survey book such as color of skin and eyes, shape of eyes and eyebrows, scars and wounds on their faces and hands, crafts of some householder and unmarried men, guild apprentices, workers and residential quarters of the community members. This study aims to shed light on the physical characteristics of the tax-payer male members of the Kastorian community and interesting details of their life in Istanbul that are not expected to be found recorded in a tax register book.
Construction and Reconstruction in Medieval Urban Europe, 2024
Georgi Kastrioti (1405-1468) was the son of a tribal chief in the northern Albania. After his fat... more Georgi Kastrioti (1405-1468) was the son of a tribal chief in the northern Albania. After his father became an Ottoman fief holder, he was sent to the Ottoman palace as hostage in 1414. He was named as Scander and lived in the palace until he was appointed as a Beg (commander) in the pre-Ottoman dominion of his family. According to a document in the Ottoman Archives, Scanderbeg wrote a letter to the Sultan and asked if the center of his father’s dominion would be given to him as fief but his request was refused, which was the beginning of the decades
of unrest in the Ottoman Albania known as “The Rebellion of Scanderbeg (1443- 1468)”. This paper examines the Byzantine, Serbian and Ottoman sources to analyze the re-construction story of the ancient Roman military base Scampa as Elbasan Castle in 1466 and repopulation of the fortress, through the example of the Christian castle guards of Kastoria, with the forced immigrant Christian military groups located in the fortified towns and cities of the region in the Byzantine era, which marked the turning point in the transformation of the pre-Ottoman landed cavalry system in the region and a new era in the military history of Macedonia and Albania.
Türkiye’de Arşivciliğin Bugünü ve Yarını, Kadınların Arşivlerdeki Yeri, 2023
Bu çalışma Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nun kız okullarındaki piyano dersleri
ve Osmanlı genç kızlarını... more Bu çalışma Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nun kız okullarındaki piyano dersleri
ve Osmanlı genç kızlarının modernleşmesinde bu derslerin ne kadar
etkili olduğu üzerine yapılan arşiv araştırmasında karşılaşılan zorlukları
ele alacaktır. Osmanlı Arşivi'nde bu konudaki evrakları araştırma, belgelerdeki
dil ve terminolojiyle belgeleri yorumlamada karşılaşılan zorlukları
irdelerken, Osmanlı Arşivi belgelerinin modernleşmeye çalışan bir imparatorluğun
modern kadın algısını anlamamıza yarayacak, belki de elimizdeki
en önemli kaynak olduğunun örneklemesi amaçlamaktadır.
Osmanlı Arşivi'ndeki resmi devlet belgeleri, bakanlıklar içindeki yazışmalar,
öğretmenlerin maaş bordroları, hatta öğretmen atamaları ile ilgili
evraklar bile modern okullarda okuyan genç kızlar için nasıl bir “modern
Osmanlı kadını” profili oluşturulmak istendiğini şaşırtıcı detaylarla ortaya
koyar. Fakat bu dokümanları bulmak, eski harflerle yazılmış on dokuzuncu
yüzyıl resmi belge dilini anlamak ve konu hakkındaki Osmanlıca terminolojiye
aşina olmak, Osmanlı Arşivi'nde bu konuda araştırma yapmanın
en büyük zorluklarıdır. Osmanlı modernleşme döneminin karmaşık
bürokratik yapısı, belge yazımında kullanılan bürokratik dil ve modernleşme
döneminde belge dilinin bir parçası haline gelen terim ve isimlerin
kataloglamasındaki tutarsızlıklar, modernleşme döneminde Osmanlı
kız okulları hakkındaki bu çalışmanın Osmanlı Arşivi'nde yürütülmesini
zorlaştırmıştır. Fakat bu zorluklara rağmen Osmanlı Arşivi'ni böyle bir çalışma için kullanmak çalışmamızın yeni şeyler söylemesini ve orijinal olmasını sağladığı için, bütün bu zorlukların belli yöntemlerle aşılması gerekmektedir. Bu çalışma buna güzel bir örnek teşkil edecektir.
Proceedings TMM CH2023 in Athens, 2023
Agion Anargyron Monastery is one of the cultural heritages of Kastoria,
whose name was recorded i... more Agion Anargyron Monastery is one of the cultural heritages of Kastoria,
whose name was recorded in the Ottoman archival sources at first time in
1440s as one of the Christian endowments in the region. Records in the archival documents dated to the later centuries show that the monastery was the largest religious foundation in the region and endowment properties of Agion Anargyron Monastery indicate that the monastery played a significant role in the socio-economic development, seasonal labor force movements and manufacturing culture of the traditional industries of Kastoria for centuries. Also 19th and early 20th century documents in the Ottoman Archives, including a letter of the monastery’s monks and a letter of intelligence informing about a planned attack
to the monastery, are valuable sources of information on the history of the religious complex and its cultural heritage. The documents in the Ottoman Archives are very important sources of information that may contribute transmitting the unknown history of the cultural heritage across generations and borders and these sources have yet to be studied in this paper to shed light on the institutional history of the cultural heritage and its contributions to the social, economic, and cultural development of the region in the Ottoman era.
A VIDA QUOTIDIANA DA CIDADE NA EUROPA MEDIEVAL (Everyday Life in Medieval Urban Europe), 2022
Female members of families became an active part of professions in medieval cities through their ... more Female members of families became an active part of professions in medieval cities through their husbands or fathers but not all of the women’s contributions to the medieval urban industries are easily identifyable. The Ottoman cadastral surveys from the 15 century are very important archival sources for women’s roles in medieval urban industries of Macedonia and Kastoria, as the center for fur manufacturing since the Byzantine era, has a special place in “traditionally female” contributions to fur manufacturing and related industries as well as other professions of the city. This paper examines 1445-1446 Ottoman cadastral survey of Kastoria for women’s contribution to traditional industries as wives and
widow householders. The survey of Kastoria registers the information about the ten occupation quarters of the city and widow craftswomen were registered in eight of these quarters as fur manufacturers, textile weavers, tailors, merchants, blacksmiths, pottery makers and fisherwomen. This paper analyzes the survey of Kastoria under three titles: Marriage age in the mid-15th century Kastoria, Wife working with her husband in the family workshop, Role of wives and widows of craftswomen in the late medieval economy of Kastoria.
Milli Saraylar Sanat Tarih Mimarlık Dergisi (NATIONAL PALACES JOURNAL OF ART HISTORY-ARCHITECTURE), Dec 22, 2021
This paper attempts to provide the results of a comprehensive archival and field study conducted ... more This paper attempts to provide the results of a comprehensive archival and field study conducted on the grand auto piano of Sultan Abdulhamid II, which has been known as lost or vanished. The grand auto piano of Sultan Abdulhamid II is an important musical instrument for the history of Ottoman modern music as well as an important source of information on the popular operas, composers, and music pieces in the Yildiz Palace. This study evaluates the known and unknown details of the true story of the Sultan's grand auto piano based on the documents in the Ottoman Archives and the findings of the field research conducted in the Beylerbeyi Palace. The most important contributions of this study to the literature are not only the discovery of the grand auto piano in the Beylerbeyi Palace where the deposed Sultan Abdulhamid II lived during the last six years of his life under house arrest but also correcting the misleading interpretations of the information in the archival documents on the manufacturer of the unique grand auto piano of the Sultan.
Ankara : The Department of History, The Institute of Economics and Social Sciences of Ihsan Dogra... more Ankara : The Department of History, The Institute of Economics and Social Sciences of Ihsan Dogramaci Bilkent Univ., 2013.
Bilig, 2015
Osmanlilarin Bulgaristan’i 14.yy’in sonunda fethetmesinden hemen sonra Nigbolu bolgesine Anadolu’... more Osmanlilarin Bulgaristan’i 14.yy’in sonunda fethetmesinden hemen sonra Nigbolu bolgesine Anadolu’dan Musluman yerlesimciler gelmeye baslamistir. Osmanli merkezi idaresinin politikalari bu bolgedeki nufus, yerlesim sistemi, Anadolu’dan gelen gocmenlerin profili ve olusturduklari yerlesim aginin ozellikleri uzerinde belirleyici bir rol oynamistir. Boylece 15.yy’da bolgeye gelen Anadolulu kalabalik yoruk obalari, fetihten once bosalan yerlesimlerin canlandirilmasinda rol oynamistir. 16.yy’da Tuna bolgesine odaklanan fetih politikalari sonucunda Nigbolu Sancagi’nin yerlesime acilmamis bolgelerinde ordunun sefer sirasindaki silah, muhimmat ve iase ihtiyaclarini karsilmak uzere uretim yapan ozel statulu koylerden olusan Musluman yerlesim bolgeleri olusturularak bu bolgelere aileler ya da klanlar seklinde bolunen yoruk gruplarin iskân edilmistir. 16.yy’in ilk yarisinda kurulan bu ozel statulu Musluman yerlesimleri bolgede gunumuze kadar devam eden Turk varliginin temeli olusturmustur.
Conference Presentations by nuray ocaklı
Urban societies in medieval Europe
When Constantinople became the new capital of the Ottoman Empire in 1453, the city was not the gl... more When Constantinople became the new capital of the Ottoman Empire in 1453, the city was not the glorious metropolis of the East but an abandoned city. Sultan Mehmed II appointed a new patriarch to encourage the native Christians to return and pursued the policy of forced migration to repopulate the city urgently. Records in the 15th and early 16th century survey books of Istanbul indicate that among the early settlers of the new capital, there were Byzantine aristocrats, Christian merchants and skilled craftsmen who constituted a significant part of the Orthodox Christian elites in Istanbul. The native Christian and forced immigrant communities formed the core of the imperial society in Istanbul and their tax revenues were allocated to pious foundations, which is the reason that names and some other important information about these Orthodox Christian elites were registered in the endowment survey books of Istanbul. Among these elites, names of the Orthodox Christians from Kastoria indicate that the craftsmen and merchants from the center of fur manufacturing and silk industry in Western Macedonia came to Istanbul as forced immigrants in the second half of the 15th century, which is long before the golden age of the Kastorian furriers in the capital city. Also, the Orthodox Christian master craftsmen making gold/silver thread and weaving majestic fabrics using the combination of silk, gold and silver threads indicate an organized and collective work for manufacturing one of the most valuable commodities in history. Ottoman sultans and dynasty members wore clothes made of fur covered with majestic fabrics. Also, the sultans gave these valuable clothes to members of the ruling class and diplomats as gift to honor them, which became a part of the official ceremonies in Istanbul. For this reason, the demand of the Ottoman court for valuable furs and majestic fabrics had increased rapidly since the second half of the 15th century. Due to their high degree of craft specialization, the Orthodox Christian elites became an important part of the manufacturing process of the valuable clothes for the Ottoman court using the three precious materials: Fur, silk, and gold.
This paper aims to analyze the records in the survey books of Istanbul and shed light on the early history of the Orthodox Christian elites in the capital city manufacturing and trading the valuable furs and the majestic fabrics in the 15th and early 16th century.
Creation — Re-Creation is the theme for the 2024 Australian Association for Jewish Studies Conference, 2024
The Romaniote Jews of Kastoria were recorded in the first Ottoman cadastral survey of their homet... more The Romaniote Jews of Kastoria were recorded in the first Ottoman cadastral survey of their hometown dated to the first reign of Sultan Murad Il (1421-1444). An updated record in the fief register of Macedonia indicates that they set on a journey to a new life in Istanbul in the spring of 1455. The earliest detailed source of information on the new life of the
Kastorian Jews is the late 16th century poll-tax register of the Jewish communities in Istanbul whose tax revenues were allocated to the endowment of Sultan Mehmed II. Many details about the physical characteristics of the Kastorian Jews and their new life were meticulously recorded in the survey book such as color of skin and eyes, shape of eyes and eyebrows, sears and wounds on their faces and hands, crafts of some householder and unmarried men, guild apprentices, workers and residential quarters of the community members. This study aims to shed light on the physical characteristics of the tax-payer male members of the Kastorian community and interesting details of their life in Istanbul that are not expected to be found recorded in a tax register book.
Automatskih glazbenih instrumenata: Koncertni automatski klavir marke M.F.Rachals sultana Abdulhamida II. , 2024
Zapadna glazbena kultura u osmanskoj palači u zlatno doba automatskih glazbenih instrumenata: Kon... more Zapadna glazbena kultura u osmanskoj palači u zlatno doba automatskih glazbenih instrumenata: Koncertni automatski klavir marke M.F.Rachals sultana Abdulhamida II.
Utorak, 20. veljače 2024 18:30 Volika dvorana Novinankog doma (Porkovčova ul. 2, 10000 Zagreb)
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BIAJS Conference 2022: Unfolding Time: Texts – Practices – Politics, 2022
This paper examines four 15th century Ottoman cadastral and military surveys to analyze the detai... more This paper examines four 15th century Ottoman cadastral and military surveys to analyze the details of the Romaniot Jewish community’s life in Kastoria and their cultural interactions with the Greek and Slavic population of the city. Also this paper aims to study the process of their deportation and the earliest stage of the new life in Constantinople. The first Ottoman survey of Kastoria registers detailed information about population structure and personal names of the Jewish community indicating their cultural interactions with the Greek and Slavic peoples of the city. However, after the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, Kastorian Jews were deported to the new capital. One of the Ottoman surveys mentions that the first deportation attempt was a failure due to a reason, so the Kastorian Jews were registered once more in a 15th century military survey but after some time, they were deported to and registered by name in Constantinople as the most populous Jewish community of the city in the mid-15th century. This was a new era of cultural interaction and a different life experience for the Romaniot Jewish community of Kastoria in the transition period of Constantinople from Byzantine to Ottoman.
The Fifth International Congress of Turkology Turks and Turkic Peoples Among Others – Others Among Turks and Turkic Peoples, 2018
In the early 16th century, the Ottoman Lower Danube Frontier housed
various military communities.... more In the early 16th century, the Ottoman Lower Danube Frontier housed
various military communities. The Tatar warriors (eşkünci Tatarlar) were
one of the most important military groups of the Danubian Bulgaria.
This presentation examines a Tatar warrior community living in a certain
village named Tatarlu in the Ottoman Lower Danube Frontier in the 16th
century. The village includes thirty five registers of inhabitants and twenty
of them are the members of the Tatar community. This study scrutinizes
an early 16th century Ottoman land survey which provided personal
names, origins, status and military duties of the Tatars. This presentation
consists of three parts. In the first part, the specific information such
as the origin, status, privileges and duties given in the Ottoman survey
are going to discussed. In the second part, personal names of the Tatar
warriors are going to be classified as pre-Islamic ethnic\warrior and
Islamic names in order to examine the cultural profile of the Tatars.
Finally, this presentation will provide a comparison of the Tatar warriors
with other inhabitants of the Tatarlu village and other military groups
living in the nearby villages to determine differences and similarities
of the Tatar warriors with other civil and military communities of the
region.
Drafts by nuray ocaklı
Third European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies, 2018
This paper examines the emergence of a new agrarian society and settlement system in the uninhabi... more This paper examines the emergence of a new agrarian society and settlement system in the uninhabited regions of the Lower Danube frontier districts Razgrad, Cherven and Shumen in the first half of the 16th century. Contrary to the Mehmet II”s deportation policy, Suleyman I (1520-1566) granted lands to the leaders and members of the sufi orders as free hold property as the first step of a new settlement policy. The first sufi convents emerged in these uninhabited lands in the second and third decade of the 16th century. According to the Ottoman land and tax surveys of 1516,1530 and1556, seventy six new settlements emerged around these sufi convents and both settlement and personal names in these regions indicate that the settlers were sheikhs, members of sufi orders, divided nomadic clans of Western Anatolia, new converts and freed slaves. The land and tax surveys indicate that the names of these first settlements also imply a proper division of labour. These villages were producers of specific military goods such as Okçu (arrow maker), Kılıççı (sword maker), Semerci (saddle maker). In addition, significant tax exemptions given to these villages indicate a policy that specifically designed in order to promote increase in agricultural production in a short period.
This paper examines the reasons behind why Ottoman central authority specifically populated the uninhabited lands of Razgrad, Cherven and Shumen districts and why a gradual settlement policy was applied other than deportation. Also this paper explores why these people were chosen and directed to these regions as the first settlers. Lastly, this paper answers why there were a proper division of labor among these villages and why promoting agricultural production using tax exemptions in the new villages was more important than maximizing the tax revenue for the central authority .
Reserch Projects by nuray ocaklı
Zaginiony fortepian sułtana Abdilhamida II, 2022
Turecki wieczór muzyczny pod tym tajemniczym tytułem odbył się w Sali Białej pałacu w Wilanowie. ... more Turecki wieczór muzyczny pod tym tajemniczym tytułem odbył się w Sali Białej pałacu w Wilanowie. Spektakl był udany za sprawą wspaniałej pianistki, prof. Tutu Aydinośjlu, komentującej jej występ prof. Nuray Ocakli i J.E. Cengiza Kamila Firata, Ambasadora Republiki Turcji w Polsce, który tryskał humorem, a ponadto dwoił się i troił wspomagając tłumaczenie wystąpienia prof. Ocakli na angielski.
Talks by nuray ocaklı
ARIT Lectures, 2023
Kastoria had already been a center of manufacturing
and trade in Western Macedonia when the city
... more Kastoria had already been a center of manufacturing
and trade in Western Macedonia when the city
became a part of the Ottoman Empire in 1380s. As a
rule, the Ottoman central authorities would carry
out a very detailed cadastral survey for a new land
to start military and socio-economic transition
immediately after a conquest but this was not the
case for Kastoria. Due to the long period of war with
Bulgaria (1388-1396) and the interregnum period
after the Timurid invasion of Anatolia (1402-1421),
the cadastral survey of Kastoria was not carried out
until the first reign of Sultan Murad II (1421-1444)
and the transition process was delayed until the
second reign of Sultan Mehmed II (1451-1481). The
first Ottoman register of Kastoria transmits a picture
of socio-economic, religious and military structure
of Kastoria in the late Byzantine era and the silk
industry with the contributions of Orthodox
Christian craftswomen, Romaniote Jews and
Cuman/Kipchak tribes in the region is a significant
part of this interesting picture.
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of unrest in the Ottoman Albania known as “The Rebellion of Scanderbeg (1443- 1468)”. This paper examines the Byzantine, Serbian and Ottoman sources to analyze the re-construction story of the ancient Roman military base Scampa as Elbasan Castle in 1466 and repopulation of the fortress, through the example of the Christian castle guards of Kastoria, with the forced immigrant Christian military groups located in the fortified towns and cities of the region in the Byzantine era, which marked the turning point in the transformation of the pre-Ottoman landed cavalry system in the region and a new era in the military history of Macedonia and Albania.
ve Osmanlı genç kızlarının modernleşmesinde bu derslerin ne kadar
etkili olduğu üzerine yapılan arşiv araştırmasında karşılaşılan zorlukları
ele alacaktır. Osmanlı Arşivi'nde bu konudaki evrakları araştırma, belgelerdeki
dil ve terminolojiyle belgeleri yorumlamada karşılaşılan zorlukları
irdelerken, Osmanlı Arşivi belgelerinin modernleşmeye çalışan bir imparatorluğun
modern kadın algısını anlamamıza yarayacak, belki de elimizdeki
en önemli kaynak olduğunun örneklemesi amaçlamaktadır.
Osmanlı Arşivi'ndeki resmi devlet belgeleri, bakanlıklar içindeki yazışmalar,
öğretmenlerin maaş bordroları, hatta öğretmen atamaları ile ilgili
evraklar bile modern okullarda okuyan genç kızlar için nasıl bir “modern
Osmanlı kadını” profili oluşturulmak istendiğini şaşırtıcı detaylarla ortaya
koyar. Fakat bu dokümanları bulmak, eski harflerle yazılmış on dokuzuncu
yüzyıl resmi belge dilini anlamak ve konu hakkındaki Osmanlıca terminolojiye
aşina olmak, Osmanlı Arşivi'nde bu konuda araştırma yapmanın
en büyük zorluklarıdır. Osmanlı modernleşme döneminin karmaşık
bürokratik yapısı, belge yazımında kullanılan bürokratik dil ve modernleşme
döneminde belge dilinin bir parçası haline gelen terim ve isimlerin
kataloglamasındaki tutarsızlıklar, modernleşme döneminde Osmanlı
kız okulları hakkındaki bu çalışmanın Osmanlı Arşivi'nde yürütülmesini
zorlaştırmıştır. Fakat bu zorluklara rağmen Osmanlı Arşivi'ni böyle bir çalışma için kullanmak çalışmamızın yeni şeyler söylemesini ve orijinal olmasını sağladığı için, bütün bu zorlukların belli yöntemlerle aşılması gerekmektedir. Bu çalışma buna güzel bir örnek teşkil edecektir.
whose name was recorded in the Ottoman archival sources at first time in
1440s as one of the Christian endowments in the region. Records in the archival documents dated to the later centuries show that the monastery was the largest religious foundation in the region and endowment properties of Agion Anargyron Monastery indicate that the monastery played a significant role in the socio-economic development, seasonal labor force movements and manufacturing culture of the traditional industries of Kastoria for centuries. Also 19th and early 20th century documents in the Ottoman Archives, including a letter of the monastery’s monks and a letter of intelligence informing about a planned attack
to the monastery, are valuable sources of information on the history of the religious complex and its cultural heritage. The documents in the Ottoman Archives are very important sources of information that may contribute transmitting the unknown history of the cultural heritage across generations and borders and these sources have yet to be studied in this paper to shed light on the institutional history of the cultural heritage and its contributions to the social, economic, and cultural development of the region in the Ottoman era.
widow householders. The survey of Kastoria registers the information about the ten occupation quarters of the city and widow craftswomen were registered in eight of these quarters as fur manufacturers, textile weavers, tailors, merchants, blacksmiths, pottery makers and fisherwomen. This paper analyzes the survey of Kastoria under three titles: Marriage age in the mid-15th century Kastoria, Wife working with her husband in the family workshop, Role of wives and widows of craftswomen in the late medieval economy of Kastoria.
Conference Presentations by nuray ocaklı
This paper aims to analyze the records in the survey books of Istanbul and shed light on the early history of the Orthodox Christian elites in the capital city manufacturing and trading the valuable furs and the majestic fabrics in the 15th and early 16th century.
Kastorian Jews is the late 16th century poll-tax register of the Jewish communities in Istanbul whose tax revenues were allocated to the endowment of Sultan Mehmed II. Many details about the physical characteristics of the Kastorian Jews and their new life were meticulously recorded in the survey book such as color of skin and eyes, shape of eyes and eyebrows, sears and wounds on their faces and hands, crafts of some householder and unmarried men, guild apprentices, workers and residential quarters of the community members. This study aims to shed light on the physical characteristics of the tax-payer male members of the Kastorian community and interesting details of their life in Istanbul that are not expected to be found recorded in a tax register book.
Utorak, 20. veljače 2024 18:30 Volika dvorana Novinankog doma (Porkovčova ul. 2, 10000 Zagreb)
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various military communities. The Tatar warriors (eşkünci Tatarlar) were
one of the most important military groups of the Danubian Bulgaria.
This presentation examines a Tatar warrior community living in a certain
village named Tatarlu in the Ottoman Lower Danube Frontier in the 16th
century. The village includes thirty five registers of inhabitants and twenty
of them are the members of the Tatar community. This study scrutinizes
an early 16th century Ottoman land survey which provided personal
names, origins, status and military duties of the Tatars. This presentation
consists of three parts. In the first part, the specific information such
as the origin, status, privileges and duties given in the Ottoman survey
are going to discussed. In the second part, personal names of the Tatar
warriors are going to be classified as pre-Islamic ethnic\warrior and
Islamic names in order to examine the cultural profile of the Tatars.
Finally, this presentation will provide a comparison of the Tatar warriors
with other inhabitants of the Tatarlu village and other military groups
living in the nearby villages to determine differences and similarities
of the Tatar warriors with other civil and military communities of the
region.
Drafts by nuray ocaklı
This paper examines the reasons behind why Ottoman central authority specifically populated the uninhabited lands of Razgrad, Cherven and Shumen districts and why a gradual settlement policy was applied other than deportation. Also this paper explores why these people were chosen and directed to these regions as the first settlers. Lastly, this paper answers why there were a proper division of labor among these villages and why promoting agricultural production using tax exemptions in the new villages was more important than maximizing the tax revenue for the central authority .
Reserch Projects by nuray ocaklı
Talks by nuray ocaklı
and trade in Western Macedonia when the city
became a part of the Ottoman Empire in 1380s. As a
rule, the Ottoman central authorities would carry
out a very detailed cadastral survey for a new land
to start military and socio-economic transition
immediately after a conquest but this was not the
case for Kastoria. Due to the long period of war with
Bulgaria (1388-1396) and the interregnum period
after the Timurid invasion of Anatolia (1402-1421),
the cadastral survey of Kastoria was not carried out
until the first reign of Sultan Murad II (1421-1444)
and the transition process was delayed until the
second reign of Sultan Mehmed II (1451-1481). The
first Ottoman register of Kastoria transmits a picture
of socio-economic, religious and military structure
of Kastoria in the late Byzantine era and the silk
industry with the contributions of Orthodox
Christian craftswomen, Romaniote Jews and
Cuman/Kipchak tribes in the region is a significant
part of this interesting picture.
of unrest in the Ottoman Albania known as “The Rebellion of Scanderbeg (1443- 1468)”. This paper examines the Byzantine, Serbian and Ottoman sources to analyze the re-construction story of the ancient Roman military base Scampa as Elbasan Castle in 1466 and repopulation of the fortress, through the example of the Christian castle guards of Kastoria, with the forced immigrant Christian military groups located in the fortified towns and cities of the region in the Byzantine era, which marked the turning point in the transformation of the pre-Ottoman landed cavalry system in the region and a new era in the military history of Macedonia and Albania.
ve Osmanlı genç kızlarının modernleşmesinde bu derslerin ne kadar
etkili olduğu üzerine yapılan arşiv araştırmasında karşılaşılan zorlukları
ele alacaktır. Osmanlı Arşivi'nde bu konudaki evrakları araştırma, belgelerdeki
dil ve terminolojiyle belgeleri yorumlamada karşılaşılan zorlukları
irdelerken, Osmanlı Arşivi belgelerinin modernleşmeye çalışan bir imparatorluğun
modern kadın algısını anlamamıza yarayacak, belki de elimizdeki
en önemli kaynak olduğunun örneklemesi amaçlamaktadır.
Osmanlı Arşivi'ndeki resmi devlet belgeleri, bakanlıklar içindeki yazışmalar,
öğretmenlerin maaş bordroları, hatta öğretmen atamaları ile ilgili
evraklar bile modern okullarda okuyan genç kızlar için nasıl bir “modern
Osmanlı kadını” profili oluşturulmak istendiğini şaşırtıcı detaylarla ortaya
koyar. Fakat bu dokümanları bulmak, eski harflerle yazılmış on dokuzuncu
yüzyıl resmi belge dilini anlamak ve konu hakkındaki Osmanlıca terminolojiye
aşina olmak, Osmanlı Arşivi'nde bu konuda araştırma yapmanın
en büyük zorluklarıdır. Osmanlı modernleşme döneminin karmaşık
bürokratik yapısı, belge yazımında kullanılan bürokratik dil ve modernleşme
döneminde belge dilinin bir parçası haline gelen terim ve isimlerin
kataloglamasındaki tutarsızlıklar, modernleşme döneminde Osmanlı
kız okulları hakkındaki bu çalışmanın Osmanlı Arşivi'nde yürütülmesini
zorlaştırmıştır. Fakat bu zorluklara rağmen Osmanlı Arşivi'ni böyle bir çalışma için kullanmak çalışmamızın yeni şeyler söylemesini ve orijinal olmasını sağladığı için, bütün bu zorlukların belli yöntemlerle aşılması gerekmektedir. Bu çalışma buna güzel bir örnek teşkil edecektir.
whose name was recorded in the Ottoman archival sources at first time in
1440s as one of the Christian endowments in the region. Records in the archival documents dated to the later centuries show that the monastery was the largest religious foundation in the region and endowment properties of Agion Anargyron Monastery indicate that the monastery played a significant role in the socio-economic development, seasonal labor force movements and manufacturing culture of the traditional industries of Kastoria for centuries. Also 19th and early 20th century documents in the Ottoman Archives, including a letter of the monastery’s monks and a letter of intelligence informing about a planned attack
to the monastery, are valuable sources of information on the history of the religious complex and its cultural heritage. The documents in the Ottoman Archives are very important sources of information that may contribute transmitting the unknown history of the cultural heritage across generations and borders and these sources have yet to be studied in this paper to shed light on the institutional history of the cultural heritage and its contributions to the social, economic, and cultural development of the region in the Ottoman era.
widow householders. The survey of Kastoria registers the information about the ten occupation quarters of the city and widow craftswomen were registered in eight of these quarters as fur manufacturers, textile weavers, tailors, merchants, blacksmiths, pottery makers and fisherwomen. This paper analyzes the survey of Kastoria under three titles: Marriage age in the mid-15th century Kastoria, Wife working with her husband in the family workshop, Role of wives and widows of craftswomen in the late medieval economy of Kastoria.
This paper aims to analyze the records in the survey books of Istanbul and shed light on the early history of the Orthodox Christian elites in the capital city manufacturing and trading the valuable furs and the majestic fabrics in the 15th and early 16th century.
Kastorian Jews is the late 16th century poll-tax register of the Jewish communities in Istanbul whose tax revenues were allocated to the endowment of Sultan Mehmed II. Many details about the physical characteristics of the Kastorian Jews and their new life were meticulously recorded in the survey book such as color of skin and eyes, shape of eyes and eyebrows, sears and wounds on their faces and hands, crafts of some householder and unmarried men, guild apprentices, workers and residential quarters of the community members. This study aims to shed light on the physical characteristics of the tax-payer male members of the Kastorian community and interesting details of their life in Istanbul that are not expected to be found recorded in a tax register book.
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various military communities. The Tatar warriors (eşkünci Tatarlar) were
one of the most important military groups of the Danubian Bulgaria.
This presentation examines a Tatar warrior community living in a certain
village named Tatarlu in the Ottoman Lower Danube Frontier in the 16th
century. The village includes thirty five registers of inhabitants and twenty
of them are the members of the Tatar community. This study scrutinizes
an early 16th century Ottoman land survey which provided personal
names, origins, status and military duties of the Tatars. This presentation
consists of three parts. In the first part, the specific information such
as the origin, status, privileges and duties given in the Ottoman survey
are going to discussed. In the second part, personal names of the Tatar
warriors are going to be classified as pre-Islamic ethnic\warrior and
Islamic names in order to examine the cultural profile of the Tatars.
Finally, this presentation will provide a comparison of the Tatar warriors
with other inhabitants of the Tatarlu village and other military groups
living in the nearby villages to determine differences and similarities
of the Tatar warriors with other civil and military communities of the
region.
This paper examines the reasons behind why Ottoman central authority specifically populated the uninhabited lands of Razgrad, Cherven and Shumen districts and why a gradual settlement policy was applied other than deportation. Also this paper explores why these people were chosen and directed to these regions as the first settlers. Lastly, this paper answers why there were a proper division of labor among these villages and why promoting agricultural production using tax exemptions in the new villages was more important than maximizing the tax revenue for the central authority .
and trade in Western Macedonia when the city
became a part of the Ottoman Empire in 1380s. As a
rule, the Ottoman central authorities would carry
out a very detailed cadastral survey for a new land
to start military and socio-economic transition
immediately after a conquest but this was not the
case for Kastoria. Due to the long period of war with
Bulgaria (1388-1396) and the interregnum period
after the Timurid invasion of Anatolia (1402-1421),
the cadastral survey of Kastoria was not carried out
until the first reign of Sultan Murad II (1421-1444)
and the transition process was delayed until the
second reign of Sultan Mehmed II (1451-1481). The
first Ottoman register of Kastoria transmits a picture
of socio-economic, religious and military structure
of Kastoria in the late Byzantine era and the silk
industry with the contributions of Orthodox
Christian craftswomen, Romaniote Jews and
Cuman/Kipchak tribes in the region is a significant
part of this interesting picture.