Geographical Area of Meskheti According to the Ottoman Records of the XVI-XIX Centuries
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https://doi.org/10.52340/ggj.2024.04.02.09Keywords:
Ottoman records, historical Georgia, Meskheti, GurjistaniAbstract
A certain part of the territory of Georgia was described in the Ottoman Defters of the Middle Ages. This is quite a large territory, which includes not only modern, but also historical Georgia. The aim of the research is the geo-informational cartography of the Georgian cultural heritage according to the Ottoman Defters of the XVI-XIX centuries and showing the geographical area that was described in these recors. From this point of view, 9 defters were processed and analyzed. As research has shown, these defters include the territories of Georgia that the Ottomans: 1) only conquered and tributed; 2) it was conquered and could not be fully preserved and today it is in modern Georgia and 3) it was conquered and it is still within the borders of Turkey. Some parts of the depicted areas in the defters covering each other’s. Their detection is important for studying the dynamics of social-economical, traditional natural management, onomastic and a number of other issues. However, the territorial overlaps are not so large. For example, the defters of 1574 and 1595, both of which describe the province of Gurjistan, coincide only in a small fragment. The 1574 defter of big Artaan liva territorially coincides with the 1595 big Artaan and Fanak liva.
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