25.ULUSLARARASI ORTAÇAĞ VE TÜRK DÖNEMİ KAZILARI VE SANAT TARİHİ ARAŞTIRMALARI
THE DESERTED OTTOMAN SETTLEMENTS ON THE GELİBOLU PENİNSULA
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Necmettin Erbakan Üniversitesi Yayınları
It was at the beginning of the 14th century that Muslim Turks began to settle on the Gelibolu Peninsula, which is bordered by the northern Mountains of Koru and Kuşkonak. However, the true permanent Turkish settlement in the peninsula began with the conquests of Gazi Süleyman Pasha. The town of Gelibolu, which was the largest settlement on the peninsula, became the sandjak and a center of sandjak in the years following the conquest. In the 16th century, it was connected to the Cezâyir-i Bahr-i Sefîd Province. In 1865, Gelibolu sanjak was attached to Edirne province. According to the Edirne Yearbook dated 1293 H./ 1876 AC., the counties of the sanjak were Gelibolu, Keşan, Enez (inöz), Gümülcine and Şarköy. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were Eceabad, Keşan, Mürefte and Şarköy besides Gelibolu within the sanjak. The districts of Gelibolu, which was made a province in the first years of the Republic, consisted of Ipsala, Keşan, Şarköy, Enez and Eceabat. This administrative structure was changed in 1926 and Gallipoli was transformed into a district of Çanakkale province. In its current form, the town of Gallipoli covers the entire peninsula. During the settlement process that took place in the Gelibolu peninsula since the middle of the 14th century; Turks, especially from the Karasi region, were migrated here, and many villages were established from the Koru mountains in the north to the south end. Existing Byzantine cities such as Gallipoli and Maydos and some Byzantine villages also survived. Archival documents and archaeological remains make it easy to trace the settlement history of the peninsula from the mid-14th century to the 20th century. In this long process, sometimes new villages were created according to the needs; sometimes the villages got smaller and disappeared or were abandoned. Some villages on the peninsula were abandoned during the republican period and became deserted. The villages of Yenişehir (Burhan), Eski Cumalı, Keçili, Bahşîköy and Büyük Behramlı, whose ruins can still be seen today, are the first to attract attention. Some of these villages have ruins of structures such as mosques, baths and fountains. On the other hand, the Cemeteries still stand out as written witnesses to history. These deserted settlements on the peninsula were also examined during the survey we carried out between 2005 and 2017 with the authorization of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. This article focuses on the location, layout, buildings, and other material cultural elements of these rural habitations, which are important to Ottoman archeology.
