Articles written for the History of Istanbul project and books cited by the writers have been used in the preparation of this text to present Istanbul’s chronology. The points that were not handled in these articles have been completed with the information provided in the books shown in the bibliography. Books which are related to Istanbul and have chronological information were chosen from the aforementioned sources and the books used by the authors were not added to the bibliography so as to avoid a long list and repetition. As there are inconsistencies regarding the years, months and, particularly, the dates of some events, we have tried to determine the most reasonable dates by comparing them. Regarding the latter, some documents and newspapers from the Ottoman era were consulted, and Official Gazette announcements were based on the Republican era. During the 1,593 years of Istanbul’s position as capital, among the developments that had direct effects on the city were selected; and the reflections of administrative regulations on the life of the capital were featured. The birth and death dates of politicians, artists and scholars who were trained before or after the three imperial periods were excluded. On the other hand, a long list of rulers that was not granted to any other capitals of the world was prepared separately from the chronology with the objective of demonstrating Istanbul’s character as a capital city of the Empire. Since local administrators, such as mayors and governors, were included in the section of Politics and Administration (see. Tarkan Oktay, “Istanbul’s Administration from the Tanzimat Era until Today”), they are repeated in the chronology.1
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FOOTNOTE
1 I am grateful to Prof. Dr. Kemal Beydilli, Prof. Dr. Feridun Emecen, Prof. Dr. Turhan Kaçar and Dr. Coşkun Yılmaz for bringing clarification to the text by correcting some mistakes in the chronology and adding missing information.
