Blind Alleys (Tarîk-i hass)
Many of the “streets” in sixteenth-century Kasap ƒlyas were in fact simply blind alleys. Out of a total of sixteen…
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Public Thoroughfares (Tarîk-i ‘amm)
These Istanbul “streets” that accompanied the formation of various mahalles and that gradually took shape in the fifteenth and sixteenth…
Streets and Dead Ends
Out of the sixteen houses set up as a foundation in Kasap ƒlyas in the first half of the sixteenth…
The Bostans
There were also many larger vegetable gardens (bostans) in sixteenth-century Kasap ƒlyas. One of these vegetable gardens, situated right in…
Houses and Gardens
The sixteenth-century deeds of trust contain a number of important clues on houses, land use, and general patterns of settlement…
The Ramparts
The city ramparts bordering on the Sea of Marmara, the natural southern border of our rectangular neighborhood, constituted yet another…