Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi

Yazarlar: Mehmet Alaaddin YALÇINKAYA

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Anahtar Kelimeler:The Ottoman Empire,Ottoman Ambassadorial Account,Ukraine,Sefaretname of Russia,Abdülkerim Pasha

Özet: After the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699 and Passarowitz in 1718, the Ottoman Empire realized that they lost supremacy over the European states. Following the Treaty of Passarowitz, bilateral relations were taken into consideration by the Ottomans and more ambassadors were sent to the European capitals. In parallel with this increase, the number of sefaretnames (ambassadorial account or report), which were written by the ambassadors or their retinues of the embassies also increased. In sefaretnames, the authors described their travels from Istanbul to the capitals to where they were appointed. Though Ukraine was included in the travel route of the ambassadors sent to the Russian Empire in the eighteenth century, the ambassadors wrote in their sefaretnames about Ukraine's cities, towns and villages, fortresses, country's economic and commercial activities, the country's administrative and military situation and social and cultural life. The first of these accounts was the Sefaretname of Nişli Mehmet Aga who was the ambassador to Russia in 1722-1723 and the last account was Turhan Pasha’s Sefaretname of Livadia in 1902. Between these two accounts, there are thirteen ambassadorial accounts of Russia. In this study, the ambassadorial account of Abdülkerim Pasha who served in Russia in 1775-1776 and depicted Ukraine in the eighteenth century from the eyes of an Ottoman statesman was evaluated.

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