Endowments, Donations, and Foundation Aims
The specifications of the sixteenth-century Kasap ƒlyas vakıfs list the broad range of endowments that were set up by the…
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Local Identity: The Formative Sixteenth Century
Less than a century after the conquest, Kasap ƒlyas had already acquired the location that it still occupies within the…
The Contours of a Local Identity
It was a chilly November day of the year 1494 (Safer 900 a.h.). ƒlyas slowly climbed the steep hill toward…
Sources and Issues Interviews and Personal Narratives
A small number of in-depth interviews have also been conducted with elderly inhabitants of Kasap ƒlyas. Nine of them were…
Sources and Issues Other Written Sources
Quantitative data and sources for the pre-nineteenth-century Istanbul population are difficult to come by. The available estimates, most of them…
Sources and Issues Quantitative Data
Quantitative Data (Late Ottoman Censuses) Two other important Ottoman archival sources have been delved into, for the purposes of this…