Some Observations on the Cultural Inventory of Izmir from the Tanzimat to the Constitutional Monarchy (1839-1876) / Neka zapažanja o kulturnom inventaru Izmira od Tanzimata do uspostavljanja Monarhije (1839-1876)
Journal: Journal of the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo (History History of Art Archeology) / Radovi (Historija Historija umjetnosti Arheologija) ISSN 2303-6974 on-line
Year: 2022

During the period when the Ottoman Empire remained at the periphery of&#x0D; the capitalist world system, İzmir assumed the identity of a colonial port city which the Levantines, who transferred the rich products of Western Anatolia to the West, and their local&#x0D; collaborators made the center of the commercial diaspora. While İzmir, which lived through its brightest period from the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century, had the appearance of an ordinary “slightly bigger than a vi