TELGRAFIN ERZURUM’A GELİŞİ
THE TELEGRAPH’S ARRIVAL TO ERZURUM

Summary/Abstract: Humans need a means of communication to keep up with the changing world conditions from birth. This means of communication is sometimes smoke, sometimes a drum and sometimes a letter. With the advance of technology, invention of electric telegraph has led to a change in the field of communication. Invention of the electric telegraph had great repercussion effects in the Ottoman Empire as in all over the world. Installation of telegraph lines expanded to a larger area around the Empire with the Crimean war. The study investigated the invention of telegraph, introduction of telegraph in the Ottoman Empire, general structure of the Ottoman Telegraph Office, telegraph lines in Erzurum. Ottoman Empire quickly adopted the telegraph which provides rapid communication. Integrity of the nation-state was provided in installing the telegraph. Cooperation of the 4th Army with the Post and Telegraph Office in installing telegraph lines in the centre of Erzurum was remarkable. Erzurum people played an important role in installing the lines. Apart from the people’s help, installation of the lines was completed with the materials from Europe. Installation of the lines in the centre of Erzurum made the communication easier in political, economic and military terms. Decisions made by the state spread rapidly to Erzurum and the neighbouring parts as all over the country. Both the public and the state organizations communicated easily in the region thanks to the telegraph lines in the centre of Erzurum.

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