İSTANBUL IN THE GEOGRAPHY TEXTBOOKS PUBLISHED IN ISTANBUL IN THE 19TH CENTURY
XIX. YÜZYILDA İSTANBUL’DA BASILAN COĞRAFYA DERS KİTAPLARINDA İSTANBUL

Author : Mehmet DEMİRYÜREK -- Neslihan SÖNMEZ
Number of pages : 1-30

Abstract

Istanbul is one of the most important cities in the world, in that it has the historical inheritance. It was the capital city of both the Byzantine Empire and the Ottoman Empire after 1453, when it was captured by the Ottomans. It had different names prior to Istanbul, such as Byzantium, Antonia, Secunda Roma, Nova Roma, Constantinople, Rumiyyetü’l-Kübra, Taht-ı Rum, Gulgule-i Rum, İstanbol, İslambol, Payitaht-ı Saltanat, Taht-ı gâh-ı saltanat. Having conquered by the Ottomans, it was the capital city of the Ottoman and it maintained this feature until Turkish Republic was founded. In the mid of the 19th century and onwards it was witnessed that a lot of geography text books were published in the Ottoman Empire. However, it has not been made a comprehensive research concerning them yet. The aim of this study is to examine four geography text books printed in the mid of the 19th century.

Keywords

Geography in Turkey, Geography Text Books, Teaching Geography in Turkey.

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