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A Bipolar society: Formation of national consciousness among the Turkish minority in Bulgaria (1918-1944)
(Bilkent University, 2017-01)This thesis is written in order to examine one of the most crucial periods in the history of the Turkish minority in Bulgaria. The years after the end of the World War I, until the establishment of the communist regime, ... -
Cigalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha : a 16th century Ottoman convert in the mediterranean world
(Bilkent University, 2014)This thesis focuses on the life of Scipione Cicala, also known as Cigalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha, who was a significant Genoese convert inside the 16th century Ottoman court. Based on the reports of the Venetian bailos ... -
Demographic engineering : Bulgarian migrations from the Ottoman Empire to Russia in the nineteenth century
(Bilkent University, 2015-09)This thesis focuses on the Bulgarian immigrations to Russia and return of many of them to the Ottoman Empire in 19th century. The stimuli which drag them to the lands far away from home, and reasons which draw them to ... -
Legal status of Ottoman non-muslims in Bosnia (1463-1699) : a case study
(Bilkent University, 2007)Since their emergence Islamic states included great number of nonMuslim subjects. The manner in which the Islamic states regulated the position of non-Muslims is the central topic of the thesis. The Ottoman Empire was ... -
Michał Czajkowski (Sadık Pasha) and his Cossack Cavalry regiment
(Bilkent University, 2013)This study mentions about the history of Poland that was deleted from the map of Europe in 1795, also mentions about the Ottoman History at a different perspective. For Polish study areas this perspective is allowed by ... -
Murder in Salonika, 1876 : a tale of apostasy turned into an international crisis
(Bilkent University, 2009)The intent of this thesis is to narrate the Salonika Incident of May 1876 and analyze this highly politicized micro case within the framework of the 19th century Ottoman history. In the scope of this work, the event ... -
Ottoman serhad organization in the Balkans (1450s to early 1500s)
(Bilkent University, 2017-08)This thesis analyses the Ottoman frontier organization in the Balkans from the second half of the fifteenth century to the early sixteenth centuries. Based mainly on the archival documents, Ottoman chronicles, and the ... -
Religious and demographic development in the South-Western Rhodope Mountains in the second half of the fifteenth century : a case study of the Tahrir register of 1478
(Bilkent University, 2012)The spread of Islam into non-Muslim territories has always followed their conquest by some expanding Islamic polity. Ottoman military expansion into the Balkans was followed by the establishment of a new administrative ... -
Russian foreign policy in the Ottoman Balkans (1856-1875) : N. P. Ignatiev and the Slavic Benevolent Committee
(Bilkent University, 2017-07)Russia’s failure in the Crimean War opened a new era for Tsarist foreign policy in the second half of the nineteenth century, diminishing Russia’s prestige among the Western powers. In order to restore its prestige, ... -
Some aspects of the organizational and socio-economic role of the janissaries
(Bilkent University, 2017-09)This study questions one of the main wheels of the Ottoman central authority, the kapıkulu institution, and its organizational features in terms of their human factors under the three main categories through three distinct ... -
Tanzimat the Balkans : Midhat Pasha's governorship in the Danube Province (Tuna Vilayeti), 1864-1868
(Bilkent University, 2007)This study aims at analyzing Midhat Pasha’s governorship in the Danube province between 1864 and 1868 within two dimensions: Midhat Pasha as an Ottoman governor symbolizing the Tanzimat ideology and modernization in ... -
War and peace in the frontier : Ottoman rule in the Uyvar province, 1663-1685
(Bilkent University, 2009)Not only the provocative activities of the Transylvanian Prince György II Rákóczi but also the centuries-long Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry became the reason of an Ottoman campaign in Hungary in 1663. The war ended with the ...
