The Fire of 1782—Harîk-i Ekber (The Greatest Fire)
Fire started on Thursday night, the fourteenth of the moon of Ramadan 1196 a.h. (August 22, 1782), this time in…
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The Fire of 1660—Ihrâk-ı kebir (The Great Burning)
On Saturday July 24, 1660, a fire that started in a timber shop near Ayakapısı, on the southern shores of…
Fire and Brimstone
Nazperver Kalfa’s decision to build her school and public fountain in 1792 precisely on the “Butchers’ Road” was no coincidence.…
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…
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…