1st Edition

An Ottoman Era Town in the Balkans The Case Study of Kavala

By Velika Ivkovska Copyright 2021
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

An Ottoman Era Town in the Balkans: The Case Study of Kavala presents the town of Kavala in Northern Greece as an example of Ottoman urban and residential development, covering the long period of Kavala’s expansion over five centuries under Ottoman rule. Kavala was part of the Ottoman Empire from 1387 to 1912. In the middle of the sixteenth century, Ibrahim Pasha, grand vizier of Suleiman the... Read more

List of figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Summary

Introduction

1. Formation of Ottoman era towns in the Balkans 

2. History and urban development of Kavala 

Conclusion

Appendix

Gloassary

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Velika Ivkovska was born in Skopje, then the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She is a trained engineer architect and an academician. She completed her doctoral studies at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey and is currently an Assistant Professor at Bahçeşehir University, Turkey. She is a member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) Macedonia and she actively participates in conferences and seminars concerning the built heritage and its protection and preservation. She has published widely on the architectural, vernacular, and urban environments.