The Ottoman town in the Southern Balkans from 14th to 16th centuries : a morphological approach
This thesis discussed the morphological patterns of Ottomanization performed in the southern Balkans through the comparative study of four mainland cities, Dimetoka, GĂŒmĂŒlcine, Siroz, Yenice-i Vardar spread along the multicultural Via Egnatia. Through the cross-disciplinary application of morphological and defterological concepts, we were able to trace existing and reconstructed forms back to their formative processes (as evident in a series of reconstructive maps) and to interpret them within the theoretical framework of structural rationalism. The advanced argument disproves the orientalistic reading of the Ottoman (Islamic) city as an irrational and chaotic morpheme and reconfirms Veinsteinâs theory on the existence of a normative type for the Ottoman town that lays in the morphology of the Balkan cities. This thesisâ main contribution lies in defining that the identifier of âoriginalityâ or âpurityâ for this type derives from its particular geographical divisions. Accordingly, the coining of the type that we extended was reflective of these particular geographical divisions, as an obvious functional and formal analogy amongst the towns of this group. We thus concluded that the typological
Bessi, Ourania
CB History of civilization ; CC Archaeology ; DF Greece
The Ottoman town in the Southern Balkans from 14th to 16th centuries : a morphological approach. This thesis discussed the morphological patterns of Ottomanization performed in the southern Balkans through the comparative study of four mainland cities, Dimetoka, GĂŒmĂŒlcine, Siroz, Yenice-i Vardar spread along the multicultural Via Egnatia. Through the cross-disciplinary application of morphological and defterological concepts, we were able to trace existing and reconstructed forms back to their formative processes (as evident in a series of reconstructive maps) and to interpret them within the theoretical framework of structural rationalism. The advanced argument disproves the orientalistic reading of the Ottoman (Islamic) city as an irrational and chaotic morpheme and reconfirms Veinsteinâs theory on the existence of a normative type for the Ottoman town that lays in the morphology of the Balkan cities. This thesisâ main contribution lies in defining that the identifier of âoriginalityâ or âpurityâ for this type derives from its particular geographical divisions. Accordingly, the coining of the type that we extended was reflective of these particular geographical divisions, as an obvious functional and formal analogy amongst the towns of this group. We thus concluded that the typological
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