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About this site

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).

Mission

To preserve the migration story, family genealogies, war heroes, cultural traditions, and modern life of Mesudiye village in a permanent, openly-accessible digital archive — ensuring that the 1907 migration generation's memory survives for descendants and researchers worldwide.

Sources

  • • Karaman Ansiklopedisi by Uğur Erkân
  • • Ottoman Mufassal Tahrir Defterleri (1500, 1541, 1584)
  • • TÜİK Address-Based Population Registration System (ADNKS)
  • • Tercüman-ı Hakikat newspaper (1907)
  • • Konya Vilâyet Gazetesi (1907)
  • • Sir William M. Ramsay & Gertrude Bell, "The Thousand and One Churches" (Hodder & Stoughton, 1909)
  • • Sapancalı Muallim H. Hüseyin Bey, 1922 village observations
  • • Oral histories from family representatives and village elders

Full bibliography: /kaynakca/.

Privacy for living individuals

Content about living individuals is published only with consent from the person or their family representative. Removal requests: email mesudiye@furkandanis.com with subject "Privacy request". Content is temporarily removed within 24 hours if requested, then reviewed within 7 days.

Licence

Code: MIT licence. Content (text, photos, oral histories): Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

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