Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnamesi’nde 1641-1642 Azak Seferi
1641-1642 Azov Expedition in Evliya Çelebi’s Travelbook

Summary/Abstract: Evliya Çelebi, one of the first names that come to mind Ottoman travelling tradition, conveys to the reader many extraordinary events and situations in the places he travelled and saw in his rich work, which he wrote as a result of nearly half a century of experience and presented information to her enthusiast on many subject. One of the issues he dealt with in his work was the attempt to take back the Azov Fortress, which was captured by the Don Cossacks in 1637, by the Ottoman-Crimean allied army, including him, about for years after the capture and the events that followed. İn this study, it is aimed to examine the events and situation that Evliya Çelebi saw in the mentioned campaign and the manner of handling them. Undoubtedly, Evliya Çelebi‟s book; Seyahatname, in which who was an on duty soldier on the campaign, provides very mportant information about the 1641-1642 Azov Campaign, which was very important with its causes and consequences in the political history of the Ottoman Empire and Crimean Khanate. İn addition to the chronic historical sources, Evliya Çelebi who was in the events himself, witnessed the atmospher, the physical and psychological condition of the soldiers of the both group, and the words of the people around him who were interviewed, such as the rare point that we can only find in himself; he focuses his attention on the information he conveyed, which is a primary sources on his subject.

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