Faroqhi, Suraija RoschanGökçe, TuranÇalış, Hüseyinİnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Tarih Bölümü2023-03-142023-03-142022Faroqhi, S. (2022). An Ottoman gentleman observing İzmir at a time of change: Evliya Çelebi on the Road, 1670-1. Çaka Bey’den Günümüze İzmir Sempozyumu, 24-27 Mart, 2022, İzmir Katip Çelebi Üniversitesi, İzmir: Şehir Kültür Medeniyet Çaka Bey'den Günümüze İzmir içinde (505-522. ss.). İzmir Katip Çelebi Üniversitesi Yayınları.9.78606E+12https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12154/2131Izmir was the ‘mushroom city’ of the seventeenth-century Ottoman world: while a small town in the late 1500s, by the end of the seventeenth century, the city may have been home to nearly 90,000 people. If realistic, this figure would mean that by the late 1600s, Izmir probably surpassed Bursa and belonged to the major cities of the empire. This increase is even more remarkable as the Ottoman central authorities certainly did not promote migration into the cities: on the other hand, before the mid-twentieth century newcomers from the countryside probably were a condition sine qua non for rapid urban growth. Ever since the 1990s, historians have tried to identify the reasons for Izmir’s dramatic expansion.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessEvliya ÇelebiTurkeyIzmir CivilizationCities and TownsOttomanConference Object2505522