Ispanakçı Viranesi: Family Connections
Prior to that, however, some attention must be given to the historical background of a precise location situated within Kasap…
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The Formation Of a Migrant Shelter in Kasap ƒlyas: Ispanakçı Viranesi and The Arapkirlis
The non-Istanbul-born Muslim residents of Kasap ƒlyas at the end of the nineteenth century had come from a wide variety…
Migration and Urban Integration
The Arapkir Connection As is the case with all economic and political capital-cities, Istanbul has always been a city which,…
Pictures from a Neighborhood
The mahalles of Istanbul were mixed in terms of wealth, social class, and status. Residential patterns usually ran along lines…
Streets and Houses
There was a fundamental change in the layout of the streets and in the distribution of the houses that had…
The Administered Body: Early Nineteenth-Century Perspectives
There was neither a cadastral land survey nor a title-deed registry of any sort in the pre-nineteenth-century Ottoman cities. All…