Transformation of the Byzantine Adrianople into the Ottoman Edirne
Transformation of the Byzantine Adrianople into the Ottoman Edirne

Summary/Abstract: Based on unpublished Ottoman tax registers (tapu tahrir defteri) kept at the Ottoman archives in Istanbul, the article examines the process of transformation of the Byzantine town of Adrianople into the Ottoman Edirne; the change in the architectural and ethnoconfessional layout of the city; the location of a part of the Muslim and Christian population and of the urban quarters inhabited by them; the Jewish communities and the dynamics in the quantitative indicators of the registered households; the condition, designation and functions of the ancient and medieval fortress of Adrianople and the way in which it fit into the new Ottoman urban setting.

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