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…
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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…
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…