Gönül GÜREŞSEVER CANTAY

Keywords: Fort,Fortress,Citadel,Outskirt,Suburb,Bender Fortress

Abstract

ABSTRACT

This research paper introduces the collective living buildings which were built as fort, fortress and citadels in today's lands once were watery fields, which was formed by the aluvions brought from the beginning close havza of Black Sea By planning, application technics, methods and properties of military structures.

The main source of the study depends on Evliya Celebi's Seyahatname but confirmated by the other existing and published materials such as plans, pictures and original written sources. Ottoman's interest in this subject during 15th-17th centuries is also tried to emphasize.