Kasap ƒlyas’ High Street: “Butchers’ Road”
It is only toward the end of the eighteenth century that documents mention, for the first time, a street in…
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The Population and The Inhabitants Of a Peripheral Mahalle
The sixteenth-century Kasap ƒlyas mahalle consisted of mostly single-story wooden houses, all set at some distance from each other with…
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…
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…