İsmet Miroğlu (1944–1997) was a Turkish academic. He was a full professor at the Department of History of

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. Professor Miroğlu was born in the

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province of

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. He was a graduate of the Department of History of

in 1969 and was recruited as a research assistant within the same department. In 1974 he gained a degree of doctor of history (PhD) by his dissertation titled "The

Sandjak Sanjaks (liwāʾ) (plural form: alwiyāʾ) * Armenian: նահանգ (''nahang''; meaning "province") * Bulgarian: окръг ('' okrǔg''; meaning "county", "province", or "region") * el, Διοίκησις (''dioikēsis'', meaning "province") ...

in the 16th Century" (''16. Yüzyılda Bayburt Sancağı'', in Turkish). In 1981, Miroğlu became an

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of history by his dissertation on the

of Kemah. In 1989 he became a full professor. Between 13 May 1987 and 31 December 1990, Professor İsmet Miroğlu was the Director General of the Turkish State Archives, an institution attached to the Prime Minister's office of the

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. He led the modernization and re-organization of state archives, which cover both the Ottoman and the

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periods of

. On 31 December 1990 he left his position at the State Archives and returned to academic life at the

. Besides his academic career, he was the founder and consultant of a monthly history journal in Turkish entitled ''Tarih ve Medeniyet'' (History and civilization). The first issue of this journal was published in March 1994. He spoke 4 languages including Ottoman Turkish, French, Persian and English. Professor İsmet Miroğlu died on 23 October 1997, after cancer treatment, in

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. To keep his memory alive, BKY-

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, a publishing house based in

, published a book on behalf of Miroğlu which is titled ''Bin Atlının Akınları'' (Campaigns of 1000 cavaliers). The book contains some short articles of Professor Miroğlu on

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References

* Biyografi.net
''Biography of İsmet Miroğlu''
20th-century Turkish historians 1944 births 1997 deaths Academic staff of Istanbul University {{Turkey-historian-stub