The Demographics of Household Composition
What sort of households were these? The size of the sample does not allow us to go into a very…
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Families and Households
A total of 242 households were living in Kasap ƒlyas in 1885. This gives usan average household size of 3.82…
Portrait of a Neighborhood Community in the Late Nineteenth Century
Thank God, the terrible earthquake was over. Facing the tombstone that stood in the small cemetery behind the Kasap ƒlyas…
Fellow-Citizens and Guarantors—The Arapkirlis Legally Settle in Kasap ƒlyas
The majority of people who came to Kasap ƒlyas from outside Istanbul in the 1880s and 1890s came without holding…
Migration Records
The notebooks of the muhtar of Kasap ƒlyas contain a total of about three hundred records of people having entered…
Legal Residence: Regionalism and Nepotism
The Arapkirlis who migrated to Kasap ƒlyas knew that they would be facing a “soft landing” upon their arrival. This…