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  • Spor Alemi (1919-1929): A Turkish sports magazine in the transition period from The Ottoman Empire to The Turkish Republic 
    Eroğul, Ali. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    In this thesis, stages of development of sports, especially football in the last years of the Ottoman Empire and the early years of the Turkish Republic in the framework of the Spor Alemi magazine (1919-1929). For this ...
  • State power as performance: royal wedding festivities and the Ottoman spectacular state during the period of Mahmud II 
    Çavuş, Yeliz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis examines two imperial wedding festivals organized during the reign of Mahmud II (r. 1808-1839): the festival of 1834, which was organized for the wedding of Saliba Sultan (d. 1843), and the festival of 1836, ...
  • "Staying away from politics, not foreseeing militarism": The case of corps of Greek scouts in Armistice Istanbul, 1918-1923 
    Aslanoğlu, Anna Maria. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    The core of this study deals with the reflection and attribution of nineteenth century values of modernity, Enlightenment and nation-building, to childhood and adolescence, with the aim of bringing up proper citizens of ...
  • Suicidal tendencies: culture of self-destruction in Ottoman Society 
    Şenol, Nurullah. (2003.)
    The main aim of this thesis is to examine the concept of suicide, which is one of the most common, controversial and multidimensional phenomena in the history of mankind, from a historian's perspective within the framework ...
  • Tanzimat era Ottoman administration in mount Lebanon (1840-1868) 
    Topaloğlu, Bekir Sadık. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis aims to investigate the policies developed by the Ottoman bureaucracy concerning the administration of the region of Mount Lebanon during the Tanzimat period. Located in the Syrian Littoral, Mount Lebanon had ...
  • Text and image in dialogue :|revisiting Iron age neo-Hittite stelae 
    Şen, Sait Kutay. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Monumental Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions proliferated in the southeastern Anatolia and northern Syria in the Iron Age, after their emergence at the end of the Bronze Age in Hittite Anatolia. These inscriptions were ...
  • The 1736-39 War with Russia and Austria: a study in diplomacy and changing perceptions of the Ottoman Empire 
    Güngörürler, Selim. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    This thesis focuses on the diplomatic relations and perceptions of power, taking the war of 1736 – 1739 between the Ottoman Empire and the Russo – Austrian alliance as the pivotal point. The war in question is generally ...
  • The 1897 Greko-Ottoman war 
    Yılmaz, Mehmet Oytun. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2003., 2003.)
    The 1897 Greko-Ottoman War took place in the last decade of the Nineteenth Century where the societal transformation of the Ottoman Society had already produced a powerful public opinion. The Ottoman Statesmen were perfectly ...
  • The abolition of the Janissary army and its reflections 
    Turhan, Fatma Sel. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2001., 2001.)
    This study alms to find, within a descriptive and analytical framework, academically relevant answers to the questions, why and how the main military corps of the Ottoman Empire was destroyed, and what were its effects. ...
  • The aftermath of the deportation: the Armenian population after the great war and the Jamanak daily 
    Şekeryan, Ari. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    The aim of this thesis is to explore what the Ottoman Armenians had experienced after the forced deportation which was ordered by the Ottoman government. In recent historiography, the vast majority of the academic studies ...
  • The agrarian background to the “Dağlı” rebellion in the Rhodope mountains (1780-1810) 
    Öztaş, Çağdaş Salih. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This thesis examines the “dağlı” rebellion that emerged in the Rhodope Mountains between 1780-1810 through agricultural, environmental, and economic factors. At the end of the eighteenth century, the dağlıs formed large ...
  • The anatomy of an assassination: Assassination of Mahmud Şevket Paşa (11 June 1913) 
    Gündoğdu, Cihangir. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    Mahmut Şevket Paşa was one of the most significant military and political figures of the Second Constitutional Period. Coming to İstanbul as the commander of the Action Army in the time of 31 March Uprising, he turned to ...
  • The Balkan Muhacirs of Akköy: memory and identity in a western Anatolian village 
    Say, Yaşar Ozan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    The end of the Ottoman rule in the Balkans and the establishment of new nation states was not only a political change, but it affected the lives of individuals. Millions of people had to leave their birthplaces and migrate ...
  • The Byzantine perception of India in late antique literary sources 
    Adıgüzel, Bilal. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This study focuses on the Byzantine perception of India according to the descriptions found in a selected group of late antique literary sources. Belonging to diverse literary genres and describing different aspects of ...
  • The changing iconography of Nizami manuscripts in the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal book cultures 
    Dursunoğlu, İkbal Zeynep. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis scrutinizes illustrated manuscripts of Nizami’s Khamsa produced or refurbished in Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal realms between 1450-1600, in order to understand how the iconographic pool, the illustrative programs ...
  • The classification of the sciences in Nevʽī Efendi’s Netāyicüʽl Fünun- An Attempt at Contextualization 
    Akbulut, Didar Ayşe. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis examines Nevʽī Efendi’s (d. 1007/1595) Turkish treatise Netāyicü l Fün n e e ā inü l- üt n (The Results of the Sciences and the Graces of Texts) in its historical and contemporary intellectual context. Firstly ...
  • The Crimean Khanate and the closure of the Black Sea frontier (1699-1730) 
    Aldoğan, Metehan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    At the turn of the eighteenth century, the European states that agreed to the Karlowitz (1699) and Istanbul (1700) Treaties forced the Ottoman Empire to accept the transformation of their northern and northwestern frontiers ...
  • The deaths and funeral ceremonies of Ottoman sultans (from Sultan Mahmut II to Sultan Mehmed VI Vahideddin) 
    Yanatma, Servet. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    Death and funeral ceremonies are important means of understanding the cultures of communities and states. This study firstly aims to describe the demise and funeral ceremonies of the last seven Ottoman sultans (from Sultan ...
  • The depiction of natural disasters in middle Byzantine histories (867-1204) 
    Kinaş, Özlem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis not only presents the natural disasters that occurred in the Byzantine Empire between 867 and 1204, as recorded in a group of selected Middle Byzantine narrative histories, but also analyzes the depiction of ...
  • The development of Ottoman governments’ policies towards Greek associations, 1861-1912 
    Karabıçak, Yusuf Ziya. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    This thesis aims to investigate the policies developed by Ottoman bureaucrats in their relations to Greek associations in the years between 1861 and 1912. These policies were constructed through the various documents the ...

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