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An analysis study on the implementations of gedik, esham and muzara’a
(Bilkent University, 2019-09)
This thesis examines there economic practices (gedik, esham and muzara’a) that
emerged in the Ottoman Empire in the modern period (18th and 19th centuries) and
the relationship between them. This study claims that these ...
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. ...
Ottoman serhad organization in the Balkans (1450s to early 1500s)
(Bilkent University, 2017-09)
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 ...
Taft's open door policy to the near east : dollar diplomacy practices in the ottoman empire
(Bilkent University, 2015-09)
This thesis analyzes the United States' Dollar Diplomacy and its practices towards the Ottoman Empire during William Howard Taft's presidency. The United States was not quite interested in improving its economic and ...
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 ...
An Ayan family in Uşak: Paşaoğlullari hanedani
(Bilkent University, 2017-01)
The purpose of this research is to investigate the history of the Paşaoğulları family; a
medium-scale local family that lived and flourished in Uşak in Western Anatolia. It
can be said that investigating the history of ...
American foreign missions to the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire: fashioning the model of educated christian womanhood in the East in the second half of the nineteenth century
(Bilkent University, 2018-01)
The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was
one of the first establishments to introduce a Western-style educational system to the
peoples of the Ottoman Empire. This thesis is an examination of ...
A "compassionnate" episode in Anglo-Ottoman history : British relief to '93 refugees (1877-1878)
(Bilkent University, 2010)
This thesis aims to provide an indebt analysis of the British relief to the
Ottoman Refugees of 1877-78 Russo-Turkish War (’93 Refugees). The course of the
war resulted in an enormous exodus especially through the Balkans. ...
"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 ...