“Türkiye Kültürel Varlıkları Haritası” (Turkey’s Map of Cultural Heritages) is a new digital platform that brings together Armenian, Greek, Jewish and Syriac cultural heritages, says a Daily Sabah report.
Still in progress, the map records information on churches, schools, monasteries, cemeteries, synagogues and hospitals. Gathered from primary and secondary sources, the map shows all recorded cultural heritage sites in each Turkish city, Daily Sabah says.
Users can find information in Turkish or English. They can click each city to see which neighborhood has or used to have a Greek school or a Jewish cemetery, for instance. To improve the digital platform, the research team will make field visits in the villages or areas on the list. Interviews with local residents will help them to write more information about each historic building or site.
The platform includes several documents from Ottoman archives in the Prime Ministry as well as French geographer Vital Cuinet’s 19th century survey. The research team has examined specific sources for each minority group’s heritage such as the Armenian Patriarchate of Istanbul’s documents on Armenian churches and monasteries and the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s records on Greek schools.
The project is funded by the Hrant Dink Foundation, the European Union and the Republic of Turkey. The digital map is available on turkiyekulturvarliklari.hrantdink.org/en/.
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