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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 ...
A study over tax and relationship formed around taxation in the Ottoman Empire (16th-17th century)
(Bilkent University, 2019-06)
This thesis inspects the relationship between ruling class and subject class during the early modern period of Ottoman Empire (16th-17th centuries). The study argues that ruling class who was entitled to collect taxes were ...
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 ...
Physical environment and settlement patterns in Deliorman region (N.E. Bulgaria) in the sixteenth century
(Bilkent University, 2018-05)
The spreading process of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkan region covers a
very long period. After the successive conquest period, the ultimate goal of the
institutionalization was to maintain the permanence in the region. ...
An Ottoman peace attempt at the Habsburg court during the Ottoman-Holy league war: Zülfikâr Efendi in Vienna, 1688-1693
(Bilkent University, 2008)
The visit of Zülfikar Efendi to the Habsburg court in 1688 was a milestone in
Ottoman diplomatic history. The Ottoman system had its own diplomatic means and
manners for centuries preceding the 1680s but these methods ...
A study of Ottoman modernisation on the city : the sixth municipal district of İstanbul (1858-1877)
(Bilkent University, 2006)
This thesis attempts to analyse the first European style municipal administration of
the Ottoman Empire as a manifestation of its modernisation attempts and the
influence of European powers in the 19th century. The Sixth ...
Dunsterforce and Baku : a case study in British imperial
(Bilkent University, 2012)
This thesis will examine the actions of the British Empire in Transcaucasia during
the latter half of the First World War, more specifically, after the collapse of Imperial
Russia into a state of revolution in March of ...
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 ...
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 ...
"Made in Massachusetts" : converting hides and skins into leather and Turkish immigrants into industrial laborers (1860s-1920s)
(Bilkent University, 2010)
Early twentieth-century America witnessed a large influx of immigrants largely
from eastern and southern Europe as well as the Near East. The major “pull”
factor stimulating the growth of migration was the rise of several ...