Bibliography & Sources
The Mesudiye village documentation draws on archival records, contemporary publications, academic research, and oral histories from family representatives and village elders.
Archival records
- › 321 numaralı Karaman Şer'iyye Sicili — pp. 229 and 292
- › Osmanlı Mufassal Tahrir Defterleri — TD nr. 40 (1500), TD nr. 415 (1541), TK nr. 113 (1584) — the first appearance of "Karye-i Durayda"
- › Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi — BOA, D.H. SFR, nr. 40/88 (document on Bosnian migrants, 1914)
- › Karaman Eyaleti Vakıf Tahrir Defteri — Murad Çelebi register, 888/1483
- › 1432 Lârende İmareti vakfiyesi — mention of the "Oraydonya winter pasture" (kışlak)
Period newspapers
- › Tercüman-ı Hakikat gazetesi — nr. 9594, 15 December 1907 — the report of the village's founding
- › Konya Vilâyet Gazetesi — nr. 1894, 10 December 1907 — the report of the village's founding
Books and research
- › Karaman Ansiklopedisi — Uğur Erkân (ugur-erkan.com) — the principal reference work
- › Durmuş Ali Gülcan (1904–1996) — Local historian; research on the Durayda toponym
- › Osman Gümüşçü — Study of settlement and population in the 16th-century Lârende district
- › İbrahim Hakkı Konyalı — Research on Karamanid endowments; the İbrahim Bey deed of endowment
- › W.M. Ramsay — Archaeological findings in the region of Lycaonia; the remains of Dalisandos
- › The Thousand and One Churches — Sir William M. Ramsay & Gertrude Bell, Hodder & Stoughton, 1909 — the foundational documentation of Binbir Kilise
- › Sapancalı Muallim H. Hüseyin Bey — 1922 village record — 40 households, a population of 110, a school with 40 pupils
- › Türkeş, M. — Central Anatolian drought research (documented effects of 1928–1934)
Official sources
- › TÜİK ADNKS — Address-Based Population Registration System, Turkish Statistical Institute — population data (2007–2025)
- › T.C. Karaman Valiliği — Provincial history and administrative information
- › Meteoroloji Genel Müdürlüğü — Turkish State Meteorological Service — climate data
Local sources
- › Gazete Anadolu — gazeteanadolu.com — local Karaman news and village information
- › Karamandan.com — Local news portal; village photographs and historical articles
- › Gençkaraman.com — Research on the villages of Öcün and Öznil
- › TürkçeBilgi — turkcebilgi.com — information on Mesudiye village
Oral sources
- › Karani Özcan (d. 1919) — Village clerk and oral-history narrator — accounts of the migration and the settlement
- › Necmettin Özşahines — Son of Ömer Özşahines — recollections of the Korean War
- › Family representatives and village elders — Accounts from family representatives, village elders and veterans' descendants
Related pages
- Village history — the narrative these sources support
- Families and lineages — the surnames in the archival records
- Population — where the TÜİK figures are worked through