This article takes the example of post-Ottoman Niš to argue that the transformation of post-
Ottoman cities was not a local, nationalism-induced architectural phenomenon, as …

This project uses the fourth-century Rotunda in Thessaloniki, Greece and the sixth-century
Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey as case study sites for exploring conflicts over religious …

Commanding the Thermaic Gulf and the northern Aegean beyond it, Thessaloniki is a
dense, sprawling modern city whose layered past continues to reverberate throughout its …

The İzmir fire of 1922, as well as the subsequent re-building of the area of the fire according
to a new master plan, have been studied quite extensively. But so far, nobody has looked …

Since the establishment of Turkey as a nation state in the beginning of the twentieth century,
government has tried to use architectural heritage as an instrument for nation-building …

How can two different Mediterraneans be treated as one: both the temporal level of things
that have been done and produced in the Mediterranean area as a lived space, and the …

Religion and Contested Cultural Heritage: The Rotunda and Hagia Sophia as Church,
Mosque, and Museum Page 1 Yale University EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly …

This study investigates the development of urban thought and policy in the first half of the
twentieth century, from the final years of the Ottoman Empire to the emergence of the Turkish …

Izmir, just like many other cities of the Ottoman Empire has been the object in recent
decades of a strong research investment from the part of urban historians, that resulted in …

This position paper examines the complex boundaries that separate Europe from both its
constructed margins and those of its imagined Others. Where exactly do we enter the …