Studies on the Ottoman Architecture of the Balkans

The Architects of Ottoman Constantinople

📁 The Architects of Ottoman Constantinople: The Balyan Family and the History of Ottoman Architecture

✍ Alyson Wharton 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 I. B. Tauris 🌐 English

The Balyan family were a dynasty of architects, builders and property owners who acted as the official architects to the Ottoman Sultans throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. Originally Armenian, the family is responsible for some of the most famous Ottoman buildings in existence, many of which ar

The Architects of Ottoman Constantinople

📁 The Architects of Ottoman Constantinople: The Balyan Family and the History of Ottoman Architecture

✍ Alyson Wharton 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 I.B.Tauris 🌐 English

The Balyan family were a dynasty of architects, builders and property owners who acted as the official architects to the Ottoman Sultans throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. Originally Armenian, the family is responsible for some of the most famous Ottoman buildings in existence, many of which ar

Ottomans, Turks and the Balkans: Empire

📁 Ottomans, Turks and the Balkans: Empire Lost, Relations Altered (Library of Ottoman Studies)

✍ Ebru Boyar 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 Tauris Academic Studies 🌐 English

The loss of the Balkans was not merely a physical but also a psychological disaster for the Ottoman Empire. In this frank assessment, Ebru Boyar charts the creation of modern Turkish self-perception during the transition from the late Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic. The Balkans played a key

Women in the Ottoman Balkans: Gender, Cu

📁 Women in the Ottoman Balkans: Gender, Culture and History (Library of Ottoman Studies)

✍ Amila Buturovic, Irvin Cemil Schick 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 I. B. Tauris 🌐 English

Women in the Ottoman Balkans were founders of pious endowments, organizers of labour and conspicuous consumers of western luxury goods; they were lovers, wives, castaways, divorc?©es, widows, the subjects of ballads and the narrators of folk tales, victims of communal oppression and protectors of th

An Ottoman Era Town in the Balkans: The

📁 An Ottoman Era Town in the Balkans: The Case Study of Kavala

✍ Velika Ivkovska 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

<p><em>An Ottoman Era Town in the Balkans: The Case Study of Kavala </em>presents the town of Kavala in Northern Greece as an example of Ottoman urban and residential development, covering the long period of Kavala’s expansion over five centuries under Ottoman rule. Kavala was part of the Ottoman Em

The Balkan Wars: Ottoman Perspectives

📁 The Balkan Wars: Ottoman Perspectives

✍ Ercan Karakoç (editor), Ali Serdar Mete (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2024 🏛 Peter Lang 🌐 English

Described as the "sick man of Europe" by the Great Powers, the Ottoman Empire in the early twentieth century was in terminal decline. The newly independent Balkan states—Greece, Serbia, Montenegro and Bulgaria—each had significant ethnic populations who had remained under Ottoman rule. Under the gui