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"From water every living thing" : water mills, irrigation and agriculture in the Bilād al-Shām : perspectives on history, architecture, landscape and society, 1100-1850AD [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This work explores the role of the watermill in the history and society of Jordan, Syria and Cyprus from the 12th to the 19th century. Previous studies in this area have been limited, and have usually assumed the watermills in the Levant to date from the
Schriwer, Charlotte
core   +2 more sources

Machiel Kiel: Memoir

open access: yesKadim
Machiel Kiel, eminent historian of architectural history of the Ottoman Balkans, leaves a lasting legacy: in over 300 publications, the distinguished scholar of Ottoman architecture, heritage, and history of Southeast Europe, he documented the remains of
Gül Sen
doaj   +1 more source

II. ABDÜLHAMİD DÖNEMİ’NDE YASAKLI (MEMNÛ) DESTANLARLA VERİLEN MÜCADELE

open access: yesBozok Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2022
II. Abdülhamid, Osmanlı Devleti’nin varlığını sürdürebilmesi için ülkesine karşı yapılan dâhili ve hârici saldırılara karşı otuz üç yıl boyunca eğitim, bayındırlık, ulaşım ve teknoloji gibi sahalarda takip ettiği millî politikalarla ön plana çıkmıştır ...
Erdoğan Polat
doaj   +1 more source

The Other Siege of Vienna and the Ottoman Threat: An Essay in Counter-Factual History

open access: yesReOrient, 2015
By proposing a counter-factual history in which the Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1529 succeeded, this essay attempts to illuminate both the parameters of Ottoman power at that time and the complexity of European politics at the dawn of the Protestant ...
Richard W. Bulliet
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental History of Rice Plantations in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire Between the 15th And 19th Centuries and Its Potential for Climate Research

open access: yesJournal of Environmental Geography, 2021
Historians readily discuss the effect of climate change on the 21st century, but Ottomanists rarely reference palaeoclimatology data. This research compares palaeoclimatological data with documentary evidence from institutionalized rice plantations in ...
Sert Özlem
doaj   +1 more source

Tatars in Ottoman historical writings: Formulating the question

open access: yesЗолотоордынское обозрение
Research Objectives: The purpose of the study is to analyze information about the Tatars in Ottoman historical writings. Research materials: Ottoman historical writings contain quite original information about the Golden Horde and the Tatar khanates ...
Mirgaleev I.M.
doaj   +1 more source

An Interview with Giancarlo Casale

open access: yesCromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, 2021
Giancarlo Casale is Chair of Early Modern Mediterranean History at the European University Institute in Florence, as well as a permanent member of the history faculty at the University of Minnesota.
Rosita D’Amora
doaj   +1 more source

Leveraging Big Multitemporal Multisource Satellite Data and Artificial Intelligence for the Detection of Complex and Invisible Features: The Case of Extensive Irrigation Mapping

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The detection of buried or obscured archaeological features remains a central challenge in landscape archaeology, particularly in the irrigated floodplains of Mesopotamia where levees and canals formed the basis of complex agrarian systems. This study presents a deep learning–based approach for the large‐scale, automated detection of ancient ...
Nazarij Buławka   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crafting Colonial Companions: Zionist Botany in Palestine, 1900‐1930s**

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
In the early twentieth century, agricultural research played an important role in the Zionist movement's efforts to increase Palestine's productivity and to facilitate large‐scale Jewish settlement. Recent historiography has started to recognize the importance of agronomists and botanists as central actors in the broader project of Jewish‐Zionist ...
Mona Bieling
wiley   +1 more source

Late Holocene environmental history of Dojran, Macedonia: Investigating the interplay of imperial dynamics and climatic change

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy reconstruction of environmental and land‐use change from Lake Dojran over historical times (last 2500 years), combining pollen, biomarkers, radiocarbon dating, Ottoman taxation records and other historical data.
Alessia Masi   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

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