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This paper aims to critically examine the travel notes of François Ferdinand Philippe (1818-1900) who is known as the Prince of Joinville, and the son of the French King Louis Philippe (1830-1848), during his visits to Levant cities in 1836 and 1839. The main purpose of this trip of the Prince of Joinville, who grew up as an experienced naval officer, is to support Mehmet Ali Pasha. The Prince, witnessed the significant events of Mehmet Ali Pasha’s revolt on his travels. The prince, when he was in İstanbul and Egypt, had the opportunity to directly meet with high-ranking state officials, military figures, and diplomats such as Mahmud II, Sultan Abdulmejid II, Admiral in Chief Fevzi Pasha, British Ambassador Lord Ponsoby, Russian Ambassador Boutinief, and German Marshal Moltke acquiring information about the diplomacy of the period. He is one of the first witnesses that Fevzi Pasha will surrender the Ottoman Navy to Mehmet Ali Pasha. During this revolt, a significant number of people from Anatolia, from both Alevi Bektashi and Sunni groups, sects and communities, joined the side of Mehmet Ali Pasha. The Prince of Joinville, also, had the opportunity to visit Levant cities like İzmir, İstanbul, Alexandria, and to observe these cities socio-cultural. Prince of Joinville even attracted attention with his strategic intervention in the Fire of Pera in 1839 saving a significant portion of Pera from burning. Prince Joinville depicted many significant events, notably the Fire of Pera, that were the subject of his travels in his artwork making it possible to see the panorama of the era both literarily and visually. Even though the memoirs and drawings of Prince Joinville are influenced by the Orientalist perspective, much like many other travelers’ works of the time, Joinville’s travelogue which contains notes and visuals from his Levant journeys is significant for evaluating and understanding the era.

This article aims to evaluate whether the narratives on the settled life tran sitions of the Alevi-Kızılbaş Tahtacı community living in İzmir can be a source of historical reality. Based on the narration of settlement where the epidemic stopped by the miracle of “yatırs” and one of the descendants of Yanyatır sacred lineage, the investigation from the archival sources that the plausible effect of the pandemic on the settling of the Tahtacı community in İzmir. According to archival sources that determined Tahtacıs in İzmir started to settle at the beginning of the XIXth century, epidemics that could be effective for the nomadic Tahtacıs were the epidemic diseases seen in İzmir during the same period. We determined that it might be the plague. The epidemic may be a plague, but the Tahtacı community in İzmir was affected by the no epidemic finding could be reached. The determination that the Tahtacı community was affected by the plague epidemic in Söke, the closest region to İzmir, gave the idea that the epidemic disease narrative might have spread among the interacting Tahtacı communities. The fact that epidemic narratives in memory are woven with miracles clues about how the Tahtacı community comprehended the world around them. The sedentary life policies of the state and the attempts of modernization in forestry brought about the end of the traditional woodworking profession as the main factors in the transition to settled life. The reason why the narrations about the epidemic and miracle, rather than the main factors, remain in the memory may be the facilitating effect of the marvel on the nomadic Tahtacıs to accept the settled life. Tahtacıs must have made these places, the essence of the world through miracles, into livable places for them.

This brief article deals with one aspect of Byzantine material culture, that of pottery and, more particularly, with two specific categories of Byzantine pottery, the so-called the “Fine sgraffito ware” and “Aegean ware”, presenting related examples from museums in western Turkey. Τhe whole argumentation of the paper mainly derives from the presentation of 21 glazed clay vessels from the collections of the Archaeological Museums of Izmir, Aydın and Fethiue, incorporating comments on similar objects from Asia Minor and elsewhere. It thus offers some additional examples to “Fine sgraffito ware” and of “Aegean ware” from western Turkey, although some of they have been published previously. Τhe authors attempt to incorporate these vessels to the general category to which they belong and to compare them with others with similar decoration, in order to offer a more general point on “Fine sgraffito ware” and “Aegean ware”. Based on these examples, a date of late 12th to the early decades of the 13th century AD can be suggested for these wares.

Bu çalışmada akçe farkı meselesinin ticarî, ekonomik ve sosyal hayattaki etkileri değerlendirilmiştir. 1880 – 1916 yılları arasında Osmanlı piyasasında mecidiye ve lira devletin tayin ettiğinden çok farklı rayiçlerle tedavül etmeye başlamış, bu yüzden akçe farkı büyük bir spekülasyon aracına dönüşmüştü. Makalede mahallî rayiçlerin ve akçe farkının birbirini nasıl beslediği, piyasada ne gibi spekülatif hareketler ortaya çıktığı, bu süreçte küçük üreticinin ne tür mağduriyetler yaşadığı, devletin sorunları çözmekte nasıl aciz kaldığı gibi hususlar örneklerle ele alınmıştır. Çalışma sonucunda para sisteminin zaaflarından kaynaklanan ve esasında mâlî bir sorun olan akçe farkı meselesinin toplumsal ve ekonomik hayatta da derin izler bıraktığı tespit edilmiştir.

In this short paper we present thirteen metal rings from the museums of Izmir (nos. 3-4 and 9-10), Afyonkarahisar (no. 5), Bergama (nos. 6 and 8), Ödemiş (no. 7), Trabzon (no. 11), and Balıkesir (no. 13), dating mainly from the late antique and middle Byzantine periods. Two of these rings (nos. 2 and 12) belong to the private collection of Mr Koray Selçik and one (no. 1) belongs to the private collection of Ms Berna Oğuz, both of whom reside in Kemalpaşa near Izmir. Only no. 3 was previously published. Most of these rings bear Christian inscriptions, and belong to the late antique period; nos. 12 and 13 seem to date from the middle Byzantine age. Nos. 3, 6 and 7 contain an appeal to God for the salvation or cure. No. 9 is particularly interesting because it expresses one’s devotion to Longinos, a popular late antique and Byzantine saint. Other rings, nos. 2, 4 (with a monogram), 5, and 8 (with a monogram), bear personal names of their owners. No. 1 may be a gift to a girl, called ‘beautiful’.

Osmanlı Devleti, Kafkasya’dan Irak’a, Süveyş Kanalı’ndan Çanakkale’ye kadar birçok cephede aktif olarak mücadele etmiştir. Bu cephelerin dışında Osmanlı kuvvetleri, etkin olarak savaşılmayan bölgelerde de aktif/pasif savunma tedbirleri almak suretiyle faaliyet göstermiştir. Bu çerçevede, Batı Anadolu sahillerinin İngiliz ve Fransız donanmasının tehdidi altında bulunması, ayrıca İtilaf unsurlarının uçak gemileri ile istedikleri yerde hava harekâtı düzenleme kabiliyetine sahip olması, Osmanlı Başkomutanlık Vekâleti’nin ilgili bölgede hava birlikleri konuşlandırmasına neden olmuştur. İtilaf kuvvetlerinin Çanakkale Muharebeleri’nden sonra Gelibolu veya İzmir üzerinden bir çıkarma yapma ihtimaline karşı Çanakkale’deki hava birlikleri ile hem başkent İstanbul’un güvenliğini sağlamak ve hem de olası çıkarma harekâtına karşı önlem almak hedeflenmiştir. Bu çalışmada, Çanakkale Zaferi sonrasında Batı Anadolu Bölgesi’nde gerçekleştirilen havacılık faaliyetleri, arşiv belgelerine dayalı olarak incelenmiştir.

Bu çalışmanın amacı, Osmanlı Devletinde 19. yüzyıl ortalarından itibaren hu- kuksal anlamda şekillenen ‘muhasım devlet’ ve tebaasına yönelik uygulamaları, Trablusgarp Savaşı sırasında İzmir İtalyanları özelinde ortaya koymaktır. Osman- lı Devleti, İtalyan kurumları ve tebaasına yönelik uygulamaları gerçekleştirirken bir takım hukuksal yükümlülüklere uygun davranmak zorunda kalmıştır. İtalyan konsolosluğunun kapatılması, yetkilerinin ne şekilde ve hangi devlete devredile- ceği, İtalyan tebaanın durumu, savaş içerisinde güvenliğin sağlanması gibi bir takım konular Osmanlı Devletinin hukuki çizgide takip ettiği muhasım devlete yö- nelik savaş uygulaması örneklerinden olmuştur. Çalışmanın kaynaklarını Osmanlı Arşivi belgeleri ve İzmir şehrinde yayın yapmış bir takım Türkçe süreli yayınlar oluşturmaktadır. Bunun yanı sıra konuyla ilgili bir takım kitaplar da değerlendirilmiştir.

The paper is a literature review, which consists of tourism management and tourism applications of İzmir. It analyzes the current situation, and brings alternative solutions to improve it. First part of the paper analyzses the current tourism supply and demand of the city. The possible improvement patterns of tourism demand of İzmir and suggestions are presented in the last part of the paper.As one of the most beautiful cities in the world, it seems like İzmir can not receive the revenues and importance it deserves from tourism industry. İzmir has a unique history, has many natural and cultural attractions and with the help of strategic planning and implementation of alternative tourism types and clever management, it is possible to increase the tourism demand for İzmir.