SELÂNİK YAHUDİLERİNİN FETİHTEN SONRA İSTANBUL’DA İSKÂNI
THE SETTLEMENT OF THESSALONIKI JEWS IN ISTANBUL AFTER THE CONQUEST

Summary/Abstract: The settlement of the Thessaloniki Jews in Istanbul is an application of the policy of developing the city as an imperial center. Istanbul was the scene of an enormous reconstruction activity after the conquest. Various communities from Anatolia and Rumelia were settled here in parallel with the city's reconstruction. The demographic appearance of the city has changed with the settlement policy of exile on the one hand, and volunteers on the other. In this framework, the Thessaloniki Jews were settled in the city with the decision of exile. There were Romaniots, Karaite, Ashkenazi and Italian Jewish communities in Istanbul before the conquest. Greek-speaking Jews, who lived in Anatolia and the Balkans during the Byzantine period and called themselves Romaniot, were forced to settle in Istanbul after the conquest of Istanbul. In this framework, it is known that the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki was also immigrated to Istanbul. As a result of this compulsory settlement policy implemented after the conquest of Istanbul, there was no Jewish population left in Thessaloniki. This situation changed and Sephardic Jews became the most crowded religious community of the city, with the arrival of Spanish Jews at the end of the 15th century. In this article, in the light of Ottoman archive documents and researches, the effects of Jews who were subjected to compulsion from Thessaloniki to Istanbul will be discussed.

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