Geç 18. Yüzyıl Osmanlı Kıbrısı’nda Yerel Aracılar ve Adasal Mekân

Year 2014, Volume: 44 Issue: 44, 427 - 456, 15.04.2014

Antonis Hadjikyriacou

https://doi.org/10.18589/oa.562142

Cited By: 1

Abstract

18. yüzyıl ortalarından 19. yüzyıl ortalarına kadarki dönemde Osmanlı taşrasındaki servet ve iktidarın yeniden dağıtılmasına ilişkin tartışmalara katkı yapmayı
amaçlayan bu makalede, üç mahalli seçkin üzerine odaklanılmaktadır: Kıbrıs tercümanı Hadjiyorgakis Kornesios (Acı Yorgaki), muhassıl Hacı Abdülbaki Ağa, Ermeni
asıllı tüccar ve aynı zamanda elçilik tercümanlığı yapan Sarkis. Çalışmada, katı bir
merkez-çevre ikileminin ötesine geçen analitik kategoriler aranmış, imparatorluk
coğrafyasını daha iyi anlamak ve şimdiye kadar daha çok idari teşkilat üzerinden
tanımlanan mekânsal tahayyülün ötesine geçmek için alternatif bir yaklaşım denenmiştir. Braudel’in “minyatür kıtalar” kavramı kullanılarak Kıbrıs’taki yalıtılmış mekân
olgusunu tasavvur etmek mümkün olmuş, bu sayede daha genel bağlamda ekonomik
ilişkilerin doğası, üretim biçimleri ve taşradaki artıdeğerin birikimi daha iyi anlaşılabilmiştir. Burada incelenen üç yerel aracı, bu türden bir yaklaşımı araştırmacı için
kolaylaştıran ve hatta teşvik eden ideal vakalar sunmuşlardır.

Keywords

Osmanlı Devrinde Kıbrıs, adasallık, Sarkis, Hacı Abdülbaki Ağa, Hadjiyorgakis Kornesios, ayan, tercüman, aracılar

Local Intermediaries and Insular Space in late-18th century Ottoman Cyprus

Abstract

Contributing to the discussions on the reconfigurations of wealth and
power in the Ottoman Empire between the mid-eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth
century, this article considers the cases of three provincial notables in a provincial
setting: Hadjiyorgakis Kornesios, dragoman of Cyprus; the muhassıl (tax-farming
governor) Hacı Abdülbaki Ağa; and the Armenian consular dragoman-cum-merchant
Sarkis. Seeking analytical categories that move beyond a rigid center/province dichotomy, this article makes an initial attempt towards articulating an alternative scheme
for understanding imperial space, and move beyond a spatial imagination confined to
conventional administrative organization. Utilizing the Braudelian concept of ‘miniature continents’ allows an envisioning of the Cypriot insularity that sheds light on the
nature of economic relations, modes of production, and patterns of concentration of
the rural surplus. The three local intermediaries examined here are ideal case studies
that can facilitate, or indeed instigate, this sort of inquiry.

Keywords

Ottoman Cyprus, insularity, Sarkis, Hacı Abdülbaki Ağa, Hadjiyorgakis Kornesios, ayan, dragomans, intermediaries

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