This complex of market gardens is located along the land walls near Yedikule Fortress, and remains part of city-lore, famous for its lettuces. There is evidence that this part of the city was agriculturally active in the early Byzantine period (“Istanbul’da Manevi Kulturel Miras,” 66–67), and the “orchard of Kir Liko,” located next to the walls near the Silivri gate, was recorded in 1455 (Survey of Istanbul 1455, 341). In seventeenth-century Ottoman Istanbul, this region rose as one of the principal market garden complexes (“Yedikule Bostanları,” 36–37).
Citations
- Halil İnalcık, The Survey of Istanbul 1455: The Text, English Translation, Analysis of the Text, Documents (Istanbul: Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 2012).
- Alessandra Ricci, “Istanbul’da Manevi Kulturel Miras: Kara Surlarını Bizans Bahçeleri [Intangible Cultural Heritage in Istanbul: The Case of the Land Wall’s Byzantine Orchards],” in 3. Uluslararası Tarihi Yarımada Sempozyumu (Istanbul: Eminönü Belediyesi, 2008), 66–67. Istanbul’da Manevi Kulturel Miras: Kara surlarını Bizans bahçeleri, published in, 3 Ulusarararası Tarihi Yarımadada Sempozyumu, (Istanbul, 2008), 66-67.
- Aleksandar Shopov and Ayhan Han, “Osmanlı Istanbul’unda Kent Içi Tarımsal Toprak Kullanımı ve Dönüşümleri: Yedikule Bostanları,” Toplumsal Tarih 236 (2013): 34–38.
Image Source
- Nicholas V. Artamonoff, Near Yedikule, 1937. Nicholas V. Artamonoff Photographs of Istanbul and Turkey, Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
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