Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative Plate for Sinope Sinop: General view (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinop,_Turkey#/media/File:Sinop-tarihi-resim.jpg) Population According to the 1881/1882-1893 general Ottoman census, the total population of the kaza of Sinop was 44,656. Of these, 40,254 were Muslim, 4,063 were Greeks, 273 were Armenians and 66 were non-Muslim gypsies.[1] City of Sinope / Σινώπη Sinop (Σινώπη, Sinopolli, Sinub) on the southern coast of the Black Sea lies on an isthmus linking the Boztepe Peninsula to the mainland and is shut off from the Anatolian Plateau to the south by high, forest-clad mountains. Because it has the only safe natural roadstead on the north coast of Asia Minor (Anatolia), [...]
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Sancak of Sinop / Σινώπη – Sinope
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative Plate for Sinope The region surrounding Sinop produced abundant agricultural products including wheat, corn, barley, legumes and fruit (especially pears). Apart from working in these fields, its residents were also good fishermen, ship builders and trade merchants. Sinop: General view (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinop,_Turkey#/media/File:Sinop-tarihi-resim.jpg) Administration Sinop was annexed by the Ottoman State when the Jandarid (Candarid) principality was ended during the rule of Mehmed the Conqueror (May 1461). After it came under Ottoman domination, it was made a kaza (district) in the sancak of Kastamonu. Changes in the administration took place in later years. The sancaks belonged to larger administrative units, [...]
Sancak of Çankırı / Γάγγρα – Gangra
Administration In the Ottoman Empire, Çankırı was the capital of a sancak in the Anatolia Eyâlet, later Vilâyet Kastamonu. Toponym The ancient name of the city was Gangra (Grk.: Γάγγρα; also: Gangres). According to 1st-century B.C. writer Alexander the Polyhistor the town was built by a goat herder who had found one of his goats straying there; but this origin is probably a mere philological speculation as gangra signifies ‘a goat’ in the Paphlagonian language. In the writings of the 2nd-century A.D. Greco-Roman writer Ptolemy, the city is referred to as Germanicopolis (Grk.: Γερμανικόπολις). It was named Germanicopolis, after Germanicus or possibly the emperor [...]
Sancak of Inebolu / Ινέπολη – Inepolis / Inebolu / Bolu
Winter in Inebolu (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0nebolu#/media/File:Ineboluda_k%C4%B1s.jpg) “Many houses which represent Greek and Ottoman architecture typical of the Black Sea coast still exist. Many old buildings offer scope for restoration. Close to the town lie the ruins of an old monastery. The natural landscape of Inepolis is one of greenery and natural beauty. There are also many beaches in the vicinity.“[1] Visiting in August 1893, British parliamentarian and explorer H. F. B. Lynch noted how little then remained of the old Greek cities of the ‘Argonautic shore’. At ‘Ineboli’ he reports finding a fragment of ancient sculpted marble near the shore, and describes the [...]
Sancak of Kastamonu / Kastamoni – Κασταμονή / Kastambol / Kastambolu
Administration The sancak comprised nine kazas. Tosya (Sancak Kastamonu; source: http://www.eskiturkiye.net/614/tosya#lg=0&slide=0) Population The sancak “boasted the 18 Armenian communities of Kastamonu town (653 Armenians / 140 households); Kadinsaray (pop. 154 / 35 households), Mururig (pop. 35 / 6 households), Kurucik (pop. 800 / 130 households), Daday (pop. 208 / 40 households), Geritzköy (pop. 102 / 20 households), Karabüyük (pop. 238 / 45 households), Devrekianu (pop. 183 / 38 households), Taşköprü (1,250 / 250 households), and the surrounding villages, Çuruş (pop. 33 / 6 households), Belençay (pop. 95 / 18 households), Gücüksu (pop. 79 / 16 households), Iregül ( pop. 91/ 17 households), Malahköy (pop. [...]