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Sanjak Of Vize
The Sanjak of Vize (Ottoman Turkish: ''Sancak-i/Liva-i Vize'') was a second-level Ottoman province (''sanjak'' or '' liva'') encompassing the region of Vize in Eastern Thrace. After 1849 its seat was moved to Tekfürtaği, and until its end ca. 1920 the province was known as the Sanjak of Tekfürtaği. History The town of Vize (Greek Bizye) was part of the remnants of the Byzantine Empire, which fell with the Fall of Constantinople, Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. The town became the seat of a ''sanjak'' as part of the Rumelia Eyalet in the last third of the 15th century. By the mid-17th century, it had come under the Özü Eyalet, after 1812 to the Silistra Eyalet, and by 1846 to the Edirne Eyalet.Birken (1976), p. 85 It was renamed into Sanjak of Tekfürtaği in 1849, after the new capital, Tekfürtaği (mod. Tekirdağ). Vize itself was detached in 1879 and came under the Sanjak of Kırk Kilise.Birken (1976), p. 100 In 1912, the ''sanjak'' of Tekfürtaği encompas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottoman Turkish Language
Ottoman Turkish ( ota, لِسانِ عُثمانى, Lisân-ı Osmânî, ; tr, Osmanlı Türkçesi) was the standardized register of the Turkish language used by the citizens of the Ottoman Empire (14th to 20th centuries CE). It borrowed extensively, in all aspects, from Arabic and Persian, and its speakers used the Ottoman Turkish alphabet for written communication. During the peak of Ottoman power (), words of foreign origin in Turkish literature in the Ottoman Empire heavily outnumbered native Turkish words, with Arabic and Persian vocabulary accounting for up to 88% of the Ottoman vocabulary in some texts.''Persian Historiography & Geography''Pustaka Nasional Pte Ltd p 69 Consequently, Ottoman Turkish was largely unintelligible to the less-educated lower-class and to rural Turks, who continued to use ("raw/vulgar Turkish"; compare Vulgar Latin and Demotic Greek), which used far fewer foreign loanwords and is the basis of the modern standard. The Tanzimât era (1839–187 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
