SULTAN ABDÜLHAMİD DÖNEMİ OSMANLI DEVLETİNDE YABANCI İŞÇİLER: KARADAĞLILAR

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Foreign Workers in Ottoman Empire in Abdul Hamid Era: Montenegrins

Abstract

Montenegrin people who achieved their independence with the Berlin Treaty were doing stockbreeding as the only source of living in their nonfertile lands. As having faced a famine in those years, Montenegrins started to migrate abroad in order to work and earn money. One of the places they preferred to go was the Ottoman Empire. Montenegrins who came to Istanbul as if its streets were paved with gold worked in physically demanding jobs like watchman, navvy and well-sinker. Most of the watchmen working in some villages and ranches in Büyükçekmece in Istanbul were Montenegrin. Village and forest guarding were firstly coming under Montenegrins. Gardening was also a work area demanded by Montenegrins especially by ones from İspeç town of Bar district. After having gone to Istanbul and the neighbouring countries in order to earn their keep, Montenegrins toiled in works of stone, kerb, well etc. as countrymen. Another place where Montenegrins worked most was the coal mines of Ereğli in Zonguldak. These coalminers were working in railroad tunnels in Meadin-i Humayun under a company capitalized by French. Construction of Hejaz railway was another site of labour where Montenegrins were employed. Nearly 450 foreign workers there were composed of Italian and Montenegrins. They laboured in physically demanding works like tunnel driving and rock breaking for railway construction.In this paper, we will touch on the work areas of Montenegrins who were working to earn a living for their families in the Ottoman Empire and we will address their problems and effects of these problems on Ottoman-Montenegrin relations in the light of some archival documents.

Keywords

Montenegro, Ottoman Empire, Ereğli Meadin-i Hümayun (Imperial Mines of Ereğli), Montenegrin Workers

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APA
Özcan, U. (2012). SULTAN ABDÜLHAMİD DÖNEMİ OSMANLI DEVLETİNDE YABANCI İŞÇİLER: KARADAĞLILAR. Motif Akademi Halkbilimi Dergisi, 5(9), 83-106. https://izlik.org/JA23BW75NT