OTTOMAN CITY of IZMAIL (Ismail) on the DANUBE

H-Ukraine NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: OTTOMAN CITY OF IZMAIL (Ismail) ON THE DANUBE

Discussion published by Mehmet Tutuncu on Thursday, January 16, 2020 BOOK ABOUT THE HISTORY of CITY OF IZMAIL (Ismail) city is just published. IZMAIL CITY AND ITS FORTIFICATIONS (by the sources of 16th-19th century)

For the first time, the history of Izmail was covered in a comprehensive publication of documents from Russian and Turkish Archives. İsmail is known for its tragic fate when Russian General Suvorov stormed at the end of 1790 the Turkish fortress. The only surviving building of 200 years Ottoman rule is the former mosque of the late 16th century, which now houses the diorama of the assault on the fortress by Suvorov.

Here, at the place of convenient crossing over the Danube, there were constantly various settlements, including Slavic, Lithuanian and Moldavian. But the content and nature of the documents on the founding of the city indicate that in the second half of the 16th century there were abandoned - since the crossing of the Danube and the people who settled here were successfully robbed and smashed.

The city was founded by a decree of Sultan Murad III, with a deed where he made the land around the crossing point, property of Habeshi Mehmed Agha which was the head of his harem. The city that Mehmed Agha founded was called after him Mehmedabad and in its significance it was even compared to Baghdad - although the scale, of course, is not the same.

Nevertheless, Mehmedabad, which from the middle of the next, XVII century is already referred to in the sources as Ismail, was an important outpost of the Ottoman Empire on its northern borders.

Later it was formed a Waqf (haremeyn vakfi) which revenues were spend to people of Mecca Medina and Jerusalem’s poor people.

The book is written and compiled by Odessa historian Alexander Krasnozhon and Turkish historian Mehmed Tutuncu, is published with the assistance many Turkish and foreign scholars especially, M. Akif Erdogru, Sema Sari Aktas, Umit Katranci, Gulru Necipoglu, Sergiu Chiocani.

For the first time sources from the archives of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, as well as Moldova, Romania and the former Austria-Hungary, were combined into a single whole. This

Citation: Mehmet Tutuncu. NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: OTTOMAN CITY OF IZMAIL (Ismail) ON THE DANUBE. H-Ukraine. 01-16-2020. https://networks.h-net.org/node/4555727/discussions/5711492/new-book-announcement-ottoman-city-izmail-ismail-danube Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-Ukraine allows us to solve many problems of researchers do not know what their colleagues in different countries have and what they are researching. The book is built in the form of publishing more than 200 historical documents collected in 14 archives of Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Turkey, Germany by the joint efforts. The Temlikname which is more than 5 meters long masterwork is published for the first time in Ukrainian and Modern Turkish as well as Waqfiye of Mehmed Agha and the registers or Muhimme form Ottoman archives which concerns founding of the City. The Court registers from Crimean Khanate conerrning inhabitants of Izmail revealed some 26-court decision who helps to reconstruct the social life of Ismail. From the Russian archives there are many maps and sketches of City and its buildings which are carefully studied.

Each document is published in good printing quality, which allows researchers to work with them directly as primary sources and is translated into Ukrainian and Turkish, provided, if necessary, with facsimiles and comments explaining its essence or context. The documents cover the period from approximately the 1540s to the 1870s. - the entire initial history of Ismail, from the first attempts to found a city here by the Ottoman authorities and until its final incorporation into Russia.

Specifications Mehmet Tütüncü / Andrey Krasznozhon IZMAIL CITY AND ITS FORTIFICATIONS (by the sources of 16th-19th century) İSMAİL ŞEHRİ ve KALELERİ (XVI-XIX. YÜZYIL BELGELERİNDE)

Size hard cover 33x24 cm, 584 pages in Ukrainian and Turkish with English on the illustrations and Summary ISBN (Netherlands) 978-90-6921-020-9 Corpus of Turkish Islamic inscriptions nr.17 Türk İslam Kitabeleri Dizisi no:17 ISBN 978-90-6921-020-9 Haarlem, SOTA 2019, 584 pages

Price € 250 excl. Shipping costs For ordering : [email protected] Sample pages and more information https://www.academia.edu/40589551