Nomads, Migrants and Cotton in the Eastern Mediterranean: by Meltem Toksöz, Boğaziçi University

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By Meltem Toksöz, Boğaziçi University

Meltem Toksz, Ph.D. (2001) in background, SUNY Binghamton, is Professor of overdue Ottoman heritage at Bo?azii collage, Turkey. She has released articles on past due Ottoman Armenian and Greek groups of Cilicia/ukurova, and co-edited towns of the Mediterranean (IB Tauris, 2010).

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9 Stepanos Balasanian (1902) Batmutiun Hayots (Titlis: Hratarakut'iwn Lewon Saribegeani) p. 397. Translation by Kirkor Agopyan of Paris. 10 Miineccim Baey1 (~eyh Ahmed Dede Efendi) (1285/1868-1869) Sahaifiil-Ahbar (Nedim translation), Vol. III (Istanbul: Matbaa-1 'Amire) pp. 170-171. 11 Faruk Siimer (1963) c;ukur-ova Tarihine Dair Ara§ttrmalar (Fetihten XVI. Yiizytlm lkinci Yansma Kadar), Ankara Dniversitesi Baslffievi, Dil Tarih Cograf)ra Fakiiltesi Tarih Araeyhrmalan Dergisi Cilt I, Say1 1 den aynbas1m, Ankara, p.

Yay/a now means different things for its practitioners: for urbanites country life in the summer, for rural populace, seasonal work 43 The hill country remained nomadic until the 20th century. However, nomads began to use far more complex arrangements of migration and had a much more complicated calendar by the end of the 19th century. As a result, the nomadic occupation of mountains remained dense enough but subject to regression. 41 42 SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DYNAMICS 33 feeding of animals. The villages of tribal settlements founded after the mid-19th century were (such) recent extensions from piedmont villages or communities of settled folk that did not possess plain land.

Still a marshland where settled Armenian and Turcoman nomads merely cohabited, the area that apparently lacked an integrated social or political space first and foremost needed a population. The tribal background of the region, which was as diverse as Turcoman, Kurdish and Arab, represented a gray area situated between two major culture zones, between the Arab world and Anatolia. The Egyptian regime was the first political entity to show a thorough interest in the area. In many ways, Ibrahim Pasha replicated in <;:ukurova what his father, Muhammad Ali, had done in Egypt; such a landscape was not unfamiliar.

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