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The Turkification of Toponyms in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey

Lusine Sahakyan · 2010

Catalogue summary

The article examines official renaming of Armenian and other non-Muslim place names under Ottoman and republican rule, presenting a 1916 decree and interpreting toponym change as historical erasure.

Why this matters

It connects language policy, historical geography, and genocide memory through a concrete administrative source.

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Published in
Armenian Folia Anglistika
Year
2010
Language
English
DOI
10.46991/afa/2010.6.1-2.149

Citation

Lusine Sahakyan 2010. The Turkification of Toponyms in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. Armenian Folia Anglistika. https://doi.org/10.46991/afa/2010.6.1-2.149

Topics

Armenian GenocideArmenian historyLanguage, literature, and translationPolitics, law, diplomacy, and human rights

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