Tirhala Sancaği’ndan Yunanistan’a Terkedilen Osmanli Mirasi
Transferred Ottoman Heritage to Greece from Sanjak of Trikala

Summary/Abstract: The Balkans remained under the Ottoman rule for a long time. In this process, which lasted for about five hundred and fifty years, the Ottoman Empire became influential in every way in this geography. The region became Turkified in cultural and demographic terms in a short time. New cities and settlements were established, and the existing cities were rebuilt and rehabilitated. Along with the settlement of the Turks to the region, the architectural characteristics of the structures in the region began to change. Many inns, hammams, madrasahs, mosques, masjids, schools, fountains, dervishes, tombs and small dervish lodges were constructed. Thus, Turkish-Islamic culture and civilization began to settle in these lands. Greece was one of the earliest countries to join the Turkish dominance in the Balkans. Moreover, it was one of the countries where the Turkish population lived most intensively. Investigations for the region reveal that the most of the Turkish artifacts in the Balkans were built in this country. An important part of these structures built by the Turks in Greece is located within the boundaries of the Sanjak of Trikala. Sanjak remained under the Ottoman rule for about five centuries and was handed over to Greece by the Istanbul Treaty signed in 1881. During the devolution of Sanjak to Greece, many Ottoman architectural works were left in Greece. The foundations left to Greece by the Ottoman State on 2 January 1882 and the buildings providing income to these foundations were recorded. This study is carried out with the aim of revealing the types and amounts of foundations and their affiliated real estate located in the districts of the sanjak.

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