20. YÜZYIL DÖNÜMÜNDE GÖLDE (İNCESU): TARİHSEL VE MEKANSAL BİR OKUMA
GÖLDE (İNCESU) AT THE TURN OF 20TH CENTURY: A HISTORICAL AND SPATIAL READING

Summary/Abstract: Gölde, İncesu as it is known today, is a rural settlement in Manisa Province, Kula District. The settlement has lost its population to a large extent and mostly inhabited by elderly today. But, it has been the common living area of Muslim Turks and Orthodox Rums throughout the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. The forced migration of Rums after the War of Independence and the following rural exodus starting from 1950s onwards resulted with a massive population loss; thus the traces of the previous common life on the built environment began to disappear. This study aims to understand characteristics of Gölde when it was inhabited by two communities. The study utilizes Ottoman archival documents, oral history studies and site survey. Well preserved built environment and oral history studies ease understanding the architectural as well as socio-economic characteristics of Gölde at the turn of the century. Ottoman archival sources are silent about architectural characteristics, but economic and social changes of the first half of the 19th century can be traced. These archival documents also help interpretation of the information coming from oral history studies. For this reason, the text does not follow a chronological order; it focuses at the turn of the 20th century and calls the archival data of 19th century for a comprehensive evaluation together with oral history studies and field survey findings.

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