OSMANLI KAYNAKLARINA GÖRE KÜLTÜR MERKEZİ KONUMUNDAKİ MAKEDONYA ŞEHİRLERİ VE ÖZELLİKLERİ
MACEDONIAN CITIES AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS WHICH ARE REGARDED AS CULTURAL CENTERS ACCORDING TO OTTOMAN SOURCES

Summary/Abstract: A significant number of the Macedonian cities, that the complete conquest by the Ottomans of all Macedonian cities was realized during the reigns of Sultan Murad II and Fatih Sultan Mehmet, served as an Ottoman cultural center with their all necessary cultural structures such as architectural, religious, social, commercial and literary activities. Among these cities, besides Skopje and Bitola which were cultural centers also before the Ottoman conquest, cities such as Tetovo, Debar, Strumica, Kratovo, Gevgelia with the establishment of rich commercial, architectural and social stuctures such as roads, bridges, commercial buildings (han), baths (hamam), caravansaray (kervansaray), bazaar (bedesten), school, madrasa (medrese), mosque, dervish lodge, small lodge (zaviye), alms house (imaret), became important cultural centers of the Ottoman cultural geography. Thus the cities, the names above mentioned, because of these characteristics draw the attention and became subjects of the works of historians, geographers, voyagers and poet memorial writers. At this paper the cities in question will be discussed with their natural beauties, social and cultural structures, scientific and literary tendencies during the Ottoman era according to information that is given mainly at sources such as the History of Kemal Paşazade, Kâtip Çelebî’s Cihannüma, Evliya Çelebî’s (Travel Book) Seyahatname and poets memorials.

• Details
• Contents