List of Greek settlements in the Sancak of Trebizond https://pontosworld.com/index.php/pontus/settlements/175-trapezunta H.F.B. Lynch: The Empire of Trebizond The empire of Trebizond takes its place in this great tragedy of history when the end is already in view. In the same year and the same month in which the Latins took Constantinople and the nobility of the imperial capital fled to the cities of Asia (April 1204), two youthful scions of the illustrious House of Comnenus appeared at the head of a body of Georgian mercenaries before the gates of Trebizond. The Comneni, whose name perhaps reveals an Italian origin, emerge into the light of [...]
Archives: Regions
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Kaza Uşak
The Greek-Byzantine place name Temenouthyrai [‘temple doors’] goes back to the year 535, the Turkish place name Uşak [Tr: ‘little’?] is documented since 1520. It is possibly derived from the corruption Uvşık of the name of the Byzantine military province of Opsikiôn (Obsikion), whose centre in the 13th century was not in today’s Uşak, but in the city of Kula.(1) “Located in the southernmost tip of the sancak of Kütahya, the Armenian colony of the kaza of Uşak, with 1,100 members, was essentially concentrated in the east of the kaza, also named Uşak; economic activity here was organized around rug-making and [...]
Kaza Inegöl
The Bursa Road of Inegöl (1931) The Greek place name Angelokome is documented for the year 1308, when one of the old Byzantine tekfur was commissioned as a guardian and was mentioned as tekfur. The Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi (1611-1683) believed that the place name Inegöl, which has been documented since 1484, is a corruption of the first two syllables of the older Greek toponym. Vegetable growing is the main income of the population. Vegetable growing is the main income of the population.[1] Armenian Population “A heavily wooded region lying about 40 kilometers east of Bursa, halfway between Bursa and Bilecik, the kaza [...]
Kaza Söğüt
Mausoleum of Gazi Ertuğrul in the vicinity of Söğüt (Photograph: Abdullah Frères, 1890) The Toponym The original Byzantine-Greek place name Thebásion is documented for the year 1231. In the 15th/16th century the toponym Söğüt denoted an Ottoman Kaza, whose administrative centre was called Begsöğüdı.[1] As the first Ottoman residence (1299-1326) Söğüt was the origin of the Ottoman Empire; its founder was Ertuğrul (born 1198 in Ahlat; died 1281 or 1282 in Söğüt), father of Osman I, and an Oghuz clan leader after whom the sancak of the same name is named. Armenian Population „In the westernmost kaza of the sancak of Ertuğrul, Söğüt, there were [...]
Kaza Edrenos /Atranos / Orhaneli
Situated south of the Bursa kaza, the kaza Edrenos/Atranos and its administrative center of the same name were named after the Roman Emperor Hadrian(us; 117-138), to whom both the foundation of the settlement named after him and the fortress situated on a hill to the north-west were attributed. The ancient Greek form of the toponym Adrianoí is documented for the year 535, the Greek form of the name Adrianas or Edrenos for the year 1468, from which the name Adranos (Atranos) has been derived since the 1890s. In Ottoman sources the name Beyce has been used since 1911. In republican-Turkish [...]