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- Title
HISTORICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF EVLIJA ÇELEBI'S TRAVELOGUES FOR MACEDONIAN CITIES.
- Authors
Iliev, Andrej; Grizev, Aleksandar
- Abstract
The main topic in this paper are Evlija Çelebi's travelogues from the point of historical and sociological aspects, who lived and worked in the second half of XVII-th century188. Evliya Çelebi's notes represent the Macedonian cities during the second half of XVII-th century. In his travels he thoroughly explains which year and from who were conquered Macedonian cities. Further he explains that Macedonian cities were territorially and administratively divided. The travelogue Evlija Çelebi's gave special attention to the cultural traditions and customs of Macedonian cities population, famous crafts of Macedonian population and other things. Paper gave explanation on all we have mention above for the part of Macedonian cities such as: Stip, Samokov, Demir Hisar, Ohrid and Kriva Palanka, which would be described with Evliya Çelebi's travelogues . This paper summarize the appeal of scientific engagement on numerous world's scientists in field of historiography for full publication of his travels and notes of the famous Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi, which are unfortunately never fully published. This paper uses published and unpublished documents, defter, sidzhils and other authentic Ottoman archival material from Ottoman and Balkan sources. Evliya Çelebi, as a significant person in the Ottoman Empire, had access to the sultan's orders to the caddies regarding counterfeit money offenses. One such order is from 05-th February 1580 year addressed to the Cadets of Skopje and Novo Brdo. In this order the sultan is acquainted with the Novobrdska fake workshop for akçes. This is the main reason for sultan order to the caddy to enter in the house of Suleiman and Redzep and to find all fake gold and silver akçes and to put them in a few bags and send it to him189. Taken as a whole, the above mention facts, lead us to conclude that counterfeiting money in the Ottoman Empire was a major boom and this created a serious problems on the High Gate. Spreading false money not only became a serious social issue in the Ottoman Empire, but also caused great damage to Ottoman economy. Numerous attempts from the Ottoman authorities trough orders and sanction for spreading this phenomenon by orders and special decrees, had a small effect in practice, although the death penalty for this type of illegal acts has been applied in many cases190. The main hypothesis of this paper is: Whether the Macedonian cities, according to Evliya Çelebi's travelogues, abounded with numerous: churches, monasteries, bazaars, squares and other cultural heritage which made each Macedonian city unique in his style, appearance and spirit.
- Subjects
TRAVELOGUES (Television programs); CULTURAL property; TRAVEL; HISTORIOGRAPHY; OTTOMAN Empire
- Publication
Knowledge: International Journal, 2020, Vol 38, Issue 5, p1185
- ISSN
2545-4439
- Publication type
Article