Toponym The name of the kaza’s seat was first changed to Hayrı-bol and finally to Hayrabolu; both variants are bastardizations of the Greek place name. Population Under Ottoman rule, families chosen from different districts of Anatolia, especially from Kayseri and Sivas, were settled in and around Hayrabolu. A Greek community, 3,476 strong in 1922, survived in the town until the forcible Greco-Turkish population exchange.[1] History Charioupolis is first mentioned with the presence of Theophylact, Bishop of Charioupolis (ἐπίσκοπος Χαριουπόλεως), at the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, and of Bishop Kosmas at the Fourth Council of Constantinople in 879. Byzantine emperor and founder of the Macedonian [...]
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Sancak of (Büyük)Çekmece / Çatalca / Μέτραι – Metrai
Administration The sancak Kaza-ı Erbaa with the main village Terkos (Grk.: Derkos, Delkos; mod. Durusu) was formed in 1852 and dissolved in 1866; it was formed again in 1870 under the name of Çekmece and added to the Vilâyet Constantinople in 1872. From 1878 it bore the name Çatalca. Toponym Çatalca’s ancient Greek name was Ergiske (Ἐργίσκη – Ergískē). According to Suida, this name derives from Ergiscos (Ἐργίσκος), a son of Poseidon through the naiad (nymph) Aba (Ἄβα). In Greek mythology, Aba was a nymph and she is presumed to be a daughter of the river Hebros. The site is now occupied in [...]
Constantinople Vilayet (Province) / Βυζάντιον – Byzantion / Κωνσταντινούπολη – Konstantinoúpoli / قسطنطينيه – Ḳusṭanṭīniyye / η Πόλη / Պոլիս – Polis / Bolis / Istanbul
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative Plate for Constantinople / Istanbul Toponym Constantinople was founded as Byzantion (Greek Βυζάντιον). As early as the 10th century, Greeks also referred to the city as Bulin and Stanbulin, derived from Polis for ‘The City’. The Turks called it Istanbûl / استنبول already in the Rum Seljuk Sultanate and in the early Ottoman Empire. After 1453, under the Ottomans, the city was officially called قسطنطينيه Ḳusṭanṭīniyye. Istanbul was an alternative name. It is still called ‘The City’ (η Πόλη – i Póli) or Constantinople (Grk.: Κωνσταντινούπολη – Konstantinoúpoli) by Greeks today. Constantinople is also often referred to in [...]
Sancak of Kırkkilise / Σαράντα Εκκλησιές – Saránta Ekklisiés/ Kırklareli
The area in which the sancak’s capital city, Kırk Kilise (since 1924 Kırklareli), lies is bordered on the north by Bulgaria and on the east by the Black Sea. North of Kırklareli there are dense, deciduous forests that are a major source of Turkey’s timber industry. The region south of the city produces wheat, barley, sugar beets, grapes, and tobacco. The area is an important region for viticulture and winemaking. Also south of Kırklareli, on the Edirne-Istanbul route, is Lüleburgaz (ancient Arcadioupolis), site of some noteworthy Ottoman buildings, including a 16th-century mosque built by the architect Sinan. The large town of [...]
Sancak of Gelibolu / Gallipoli / Χερσόνησος της Καλλίπολης – Chersónisos tis Kallípolis
Map of Thracian Chersonesus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli#/media/File:Thracian_chersonese.png) The slightly elevated peninsula runs in a south-westerly direction into the Aegean Sea, between the Dardanelles (formerly known as the Hellespont), and the Gulf of Saros (formerly the bay of Melas). In antiquity, it was protected by the Long Wall, a defensive structure built across the narrowest part of the peninsula near the ancient city of Agora. The peninsula was renowned for its wheat. It also benefited from its strategic importance on the main route between Europe and Asia, as well as from its control of the shipping route from Crimea. The city of Sestos was the [...]