Ottoman Legacy

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Abolition of the Ottoman Sultanate and Caliphate and institutional dismantling in Turkey (1918–1924)

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1918 - 1924

Closure of madrasas and secularization of education culminating in the 1933 University Reform (1839–1933)

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1839 - 1933

Continuity of Ottoman elites: former imperial officials in early Republican administrations (1900–1950)

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1908 - 1950

Conversion, restoration, and legal status of Ottoman-era monuments in Turkey (1923–2020)

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1924 - 2020

Istanbul's urban transformation and management of Ottoman spatial heritage (1923–1980)

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1923 - 1985

Judicial transformation from Ottoman sharia courts to the Republican secular judiciary (1864–1926)

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1858 - 1926

Land law and agrarian change: from Ottoman tapu practices to the 1925 Land Law (1858–1934)

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1839 - 1934

Language and script reform: transition from Ottoman Turkish to the Latin alphabet (1908–1928)

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1908 - 1929

Surname Law and the reshaping of personal naming from Ottoman conventions (1923–1935)

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1923 - 1935

Tanzimat to Turkish Civil Code: legal reforms from Ottoman modernization to 1926 (1839–1926)

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1839 - 1926

Taxation and fiscal reform: from Ottoman tax farms to the Republican fiscal state (1839–1930)

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1839 - 1928

The 1923 Greek–Turkish Population Exchange and its implementation (1919–1926)

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1919 - 1926

The Millet system's evolution into Republican minority policies and legal status (1908–2003)

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1908 - 2003

Transfer, cataloguing, and publication of the Ottoman archives in Republican Turkey (1923–2000)

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1846 - 2013

Transformation of Ottoman military institutions into the Turkish Armed Forces (1908–1939)

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1908 - 1936