A volunteer cultural and historical documentation of Mesudiye village in Karaman Province, Türkiye — founded 1907 by 94 Turkish muhajir households from Bulgaria. The site is built by the village community in coordination with the Mesudiye Muhtarlık (village head office).
This website was created to preserve the history, culture and community information of Mesudiye (Durayda), a village in the central district of Karaman Province, and to pass them on to future generations.
Founded in 1907 by the Karabağlar oymak (tribal clan), who migrated from Bulgaria, the village has kept both its historical and its cultural identity for decades. This site aims to keep that heritage alive in digital form.
Poem
Ali İhsan AY
Memleketim, güzel köyüm.
Ekmeğim, aşım, aşkım.
Sensin burnumda tüten hasretim.
Uykularım, hayallerim, rüyalarım.
Dudağımda köyüm, gönlümde köylüm.
İsterim senin bağrında geçsin,
Yıllarım, aylarım, günlerim.
Ekinlerin, evlerin, sokakların,
Kalbimdedir, senin her tarafın.
Öyle özledim ki seni, bilinsin.
Yüreğimdesin, gönlümdesin.
Ümidim sana dönmektir köyüm.
Memleketim, güzel köyüm.
Poem: Ali İhsan Ay
Full bibliography: /en/kaynakca/.
The biographies, photographs and family information on this site are published to preserve the shared memory of the Mesudiye village community. Most of the content consists of public historical records about people who have died.
If you want information, a photograph or a link concerning a living person (date of birth, kinship, records of office, etc.) corrected, removed or narrowed in scope, please write to mesudiye@furkandanis.com. On request, the content is temporarily removed within 24 hours; the request is reviewed within 7 days, and the content is either republished with the family representative's approval or permanently deleted.
The site uses no cookies and does not identify individual visitors. How many pages are viewed and how fast they load is measured only in aggregate, without cookies or personal identifiers, by Web Analytics from Cloudflare, which hosts the site; that small measuring script loads from static.cloudflareinsights.com. Tracking tools such as Google Analytics or Yandex Metrica do not run here: the site's security policy stops them from loading. Apart from that script and the OpenStreetMap map tiles, all client assets are served from our own domain; when a map scrolls into view, its tiles load from tile.openstreetmap.org.
Corrections, additions, photographs, or family stories: mesudiye@furkandanis.com. Corrections to the site itself — a wrong date, a broken link, a missing source — are welcome at the same address.
Text — village history, biographies, family and culture narratives, the glossary and the bibliography — is the shared heritage of the Mesudiye community and is published under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0): it may be shared with credit to "Mesudiye Köyü" and this site, for non-commercial purposes and unchanged.
The population dataset — the annual series compiled from TÜİK and historical counts (/data/population.json) — is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0): it may be used for any purpose with credit.
Photographs and document images are not covered by these licences; their rights belong to their owners. The village and veteran photographs come from Karamandan.com, Gazete Anadolu, the Karaman Ansiklopedisi (Uğur Erkân), Anadolu Ajansı and the village's earlier site mesudiyekaraman.tr.gg. If you own a photograph and want its credit corrected or the photograph removed, write to mesudiye@furkandanis.com.
The licences do not cover personality and privacy rights: the privacy principles above apply to information and photographs of living people. The site's code is MIT-licensed.