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Grain Scale of Ottoman Istanbul: Architecture of the Unkapan Landing Square
Date
2018-05-01
Author
Erkal, Namık Günay
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The grain provisioning of the Ottoman capital city Istanbul for the subsistence of its considerable population, including the court, the military, and the religious institutions, was maintained through the same location on an extramural landing square along the wharfs of the Golden Horn from the mid-fifteenth century up until the mid-nineteenth century: the Unkapan. This article addresses the urban architecture of Istanbul Unkapan as an illustration of the Ottoman official distribution centers referred to after public weighing scales as kapan. Here, the buildings constituting the Unkapanthe great magazine as the hall of the public weighing scale for grain, the mosque, and the tradesmen council house (divanhane or cardak)are identified and represented on the evidence of the original textual and visual sources, while the urban patterns through the landing square from the wharfs to the city gate are mapped.
Subject Keywords
Ottoman Istanbul
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Official distribution centers (kapan)
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Grain wholesale market
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Unkapan
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Unkapan magazine
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Unkapan mosque
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Tradesmen council house (divanhane; cardak)
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/57884
Journal
JOURNAL OF URBAN HISTORY
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144215612753
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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Article