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A BIAA Online Lecture with Hasan Sercan Sağlam (Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations - ANAMED).
This lecture focuses on the forgotten rural buildings that remained from the former Greek community of Ayvalık, which thrived during the late Ottoman period. However, its residents needed to emigrate as a result of the mandatory population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923 after the Turkish War of Independence. Those monuments include not only the renowned monasteries but also chapels, windmills, terraces of wheat agriculture, salt pans and barns around settlement centres as well as on the uninhabited islands. This intertwined agricultural, industrial and sacred landscape of Ayvalık was neither covered by the national legislation nor academic researches up to the present. Therefore, they eventually turned into distant ruin sites that are now at risk due to decay and vandalism.
Find out more on our website: biaa.ac.uk/event/the-abandoned-19th-20th-c-rural-architectural-heritage-of-ayvalik
A BIAA Online Lecture with Hasan Sercan Sağlam (Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations - ANAMED).
This lecture focuses on the forgotten rural buildings that remained from the former Greek community of Ayvalık, which thrived during the late Ottoman period. However, its residents needed to emigrate as a result of the mandatory population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923 after the Turkish War of Independence. Those monuments include not only the renowned monasteries but also chapels, windmills, terraces of wheat agriculture, salt pans and barns around settlement centres as well as on the uninhabited islands. This intertwined agricultural, industrial and sacred landscape of Ayvalık was neither covered by the national legislation nor academic researches up to the present. Therefore, they eventually turned into distant ruin sites that are now at risk due to decay and vandalism.
Find out more on our website: biaa.ac.uk/event/the-abandoned-19th-20th-c-rural-architectural-heritage-of-ayvalik
