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1828-1829 Rus İşgali Sonrasında Silistre Vakıflarının Vaziyeti

2015, Vakıflar Dergisi

Abstract

The Russian armies moving to the south of the Danube from the early nineteenth century onward caused deaths and destruction in the cities of Shumnu, Ruschuk, Varna and Silistra. Cannonballs fired by the Russian troops that advanced as far as Edirne in the wars of 1828-1829 completely destroyed mosques, minarets, schools, houses, shops, and military buildings around the castle, in the city of Silistra. The study is focused on the process of reconstruction of the Ottoman waqf works destroyed in Silistra during the Russian occupation in the years 1828-1829. Reconstruction was delayed by the lack of funds in the budgets of waqfs. The visits paid by Mahmud II and Abdulmecid, the sultans of the period, to the cities of Rumelia gave impetus to the reconstruction of the buildings destroyed by the Russians in the years 1828-1829. The interest of the Ottoman sultans and state officials in this respect accelerated the process of reconstruction of the destroyed buildings. In fact, the 30-year delay in the repair of the waqf works in Silistra was also closely related with the financial condition of the recently created Ministry of Imperial Waqfs. In this study, where the developments are considered from various points of view, an attempt has been made to present the condition of the Silistra waqfs in the mid-nineteenth century through the probing method using the documents in the Ottoman and Waqf Archives.