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"Inimkonna“ seminarisarja seekordne esineja on Olga Razuvajeva&�Բ�����;(�ճ�Ü)&�Բ�����;�ٱ�𳾲����� "Walking through an Ottoman city (19th cent.)". Seminar toimub kolmapäeval, 12. märtsil kl 18-20 ruumis S238.

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Abstract: 

The presentation will discuss the questions connected to the developments of the Ottoman urban space in the the 19th century. Together with a visible introduction of a European style to the biggest cities of the Ottoman state, the changes which occurred in the course of “the longest century” started to be seen in the very structure of Ottoman cities and towns. Some of the changes were inevitable as, with the shift in the international trade roads and in the mode of production, some of the important manufacture centers of the previous centuries has lost their role. The other changes – of much more positive nature – were due to the general course of the Ottoman reforms determined by the imperial edicts of 1839 and 1856. The steps to improve the urban space went along with the reforms in administrative and legal spheres and sometimes were tightly connected to them, as it was in the case of the creation of city councils and the establishment of a religiously pluralist city administration. Some practical measures were taken across the Ottoman state in order to escape the situation described in the passage above, to regenerate the infrastructure, and to achieve the increase in the living standards of the inhabitants of the empire. Through the measures taken by the government and through the reaction displayed by the population, we will try to achieve a general understanding of the everyday life in the 19th-century Ottoman city. The emphasis will be made on of the everyday usage of urban structures and their role in the formation of new “modern” identities.