KARAMAN KAZASI'NDA EĞİTİM FAALİYETLERİ (1898-1940).

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century Karaman was a district belonging to the central sub-province of Konya Province. It is seen that educational activities were intensified substantially throughout the country at the end of the century. The establishments of several educational institutions are observed. It is possible to find these studies carried out at Province and subdivision level in the annual record books known as Salnâme. Salnâmes are preapared by the State in order to identify the annual changes of related institutions. The Salnâmes for the state, ministries and provinces were arranged by the Ottoman Empire. One of the most important Salnâmes for the ministries is, without a doubt, the educational Salnâmes known as Maarif Salnâmeleri. The information contained within these Salnâmes are qualified to clarify the educational institutions and developments of the Ottoman Empire. It is also qualified to reveal the educational activities in detail. The first Salnâme was prepared in 1316/1898 and the last one was in 1321/1903. Five Maarif Salnâmes have been gathered so far (1316, 1317, 1318, 1319 and 1321) and the last one is bearing the expression of sixth year. If there exist a Salnâme for 1320, it has not been able to reach today. It has been tried in this study to reveal the educational status of Karaman district of Konya Province in line with the Province and Maarif Salnâmes. Moreover, the documents written between 1922 and 1923 by Hasan Husnu of Sapanca, the Maths teacher of Karaman High School, are also utilized. Several statistical information about the education in Karaman have been published in the Yearbooks on Educational Statistical Information. In these yearbooks the number of schools, teachers and the students are given. One can also find therein the budgets of each school allocated yearly. From the light of these information the existing state of the education in Karaman district from the decleration of the Republic to the year 1940 are in detail examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]