Abstract :
Diyarbakır, having been in the junction of the main roads that connects the wide areas, has always carried an important role of center in each period due to its strategical location. Diyarbakır‟s urban texture having traces of various periods because of being largely preserved; has illustrated the different architectural values of different administrations and different cultures. Artuqid, Akkoyunlu and the Ottoman administrations had left larger traces on the urban texture with their different cultural and architectural values. Today, the works surviving in the city are the works of this period, and largely represent the Ottoman period. Travelers who visited the city during various periods had also given some subjective information on urban texture and architecture of the buildings. However, because of the lack of enough information and documents belonging to the Ottoman period, some of them have the quality of removing some defects when they have been read carefully. In this study, observations and views of foreign travelers in their travel books, being supported with the available resources, the development of urban texture being examined in the context of buildings made during the Ottoman period has been unfolded, the evolution and interaction of the city in the Ottoman rule has been examined.
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Diyarbakır Urban Development , Ottoman Period , Travellers , Travel Books.
