BİNGÖL’ÜN TARİHİ ÇEVRE VE ŞEHİRCİLİK BAKIMINDAN GELİŞİMİ
DEVELOPMENT OF BINGOL CITY IN TERMS OF HISTORICAL ENVIRONMENT AND URBANITY

Summary/Abstract: The studies based on the development of Bingöl city centre in terms of its historical environment and urbanization are limited with indirect and few academic studies of this age. However, the change and development process of the city of Bingöl have been a matter of curiosity as it is the centre of this geography, which is located at the centre of many transportation routes from east to west and from north to south, and as to its close physical environment, and the factors that affect this change. In this study, the change dates, reasons, settlement areas and the conditions of the settlements in terms of urbanisation and the settlements centred in Bingöl city or region were observed. From this point of view, the effects of the names, demographic, administrative, military, political, social, geographical, and cultural conditions of the city or the region on the change and development of the city and its environment throughout the ages have been significant. The examination made in this framework showed that important and strategic settlements from the ancient times to the Middle Ages were included in the plains and surroundings of Bingöl. However, the study revealed that in the following periods, Bingöl and its central region began to desolate for various reasons in terms of environment and development. The settlement, which constitutes the administrative centre of the region, has acquired a village character due to this desolation. The settlement unit and its close area did not have a vast urban planning opportunity and understanding. It could not create a widespread and unique physical and cultural impact because of its conditions at that time. This situation continued until the end of the Ottoman Period, even till the first half of the Republic Period. However, recently, an understanding of environment and urbanism has been mentioned for the city of Bingöl.

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