This thesis analyzes the operations of Byzantine moneylenders and their relations with their debtors from the 6th to the 15th century, with a special focus on the 14th century. By examining the credit transactions in the ...

This thesis deals with the life and career of Marius Michel, who led the lighthouse construction movements in the late Ottoman period. The need for infrastructure to support global mobility such as ports, warehouses, ...

This thesis examines the passive and mild resistance developed by the Muslim Turkish minority, who lived in Bulgaria during the period of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, against assimilation policies, on the basis of ...

With the development of the concept of international law into domination tool in the hands of the European powers, non-European states such as Japan and the Ottoman Empire signed commercial treaties that granted extraterritorial ...

The central focus of this thesis is a set of Mühimme orders from the reign of Mustafa II. These orders concerned teaching basic religious knowledge to Muslim subjects, examining the creedal knowledge of religious personnel ...

This study undertook an introductory research about Ottoman culinary culture. In particular, the study sought to discover the changing and continuing characteristics of the Ottoman palace cuisine during the 19th century. ...

This thesis examines the transformation in the perception and experience of the carnival celebrations in Istanbul during the late Ottoman and Republican era. I attempt to problematize the nostalgia and revitalization of ...

Istanbul had been struck continuously by plague epidemics ever since the Black Death broke out in 1347. This thesis is about Pera in the early nineteenth century which constitutes the last stage of the history of plague ...

This study investigates the perception of Istanbul’s legendary past and Hagia Sophia by early modern Ottoman authors. In doing so, the main source of this study is a mid- 16th century text that is about the legends of ...