A harbour city in Aydın sanjak: Kuşadası district (1650-1750)

Our work XVII. In the XVII century, Kuşadası, which started to become an important port city from the 16th century onwards, was one of the most productive agricultural areas of the Ottoman Empire in Western Anatolia and will become an export point for agricultural products grown in the Menderes Plain and agricultural and animal products of Central Anatolia. It aims to deal with its history, socio-economic characteristics, and its connections with the capital, Istanbul, by making use of documents in the Presidential Ottoman Archive. Information about Kuşadası in Ottoman sources and historical documents. century begins to appear. Although the name of Kuşadası is not found in the records of this period, the settlement is named as Kaza-i Anya in historical records. In later periods, the name of the settlement will appear in historical records as nefs-i town-i Kuşadası. XVII. Kuşadası, which appeared before us as a district center in the 19th century, was given to Öküz Mehmed Pasha, one of the Ottoman grand viziers, and Kuşadası started to gain importance with the caravanserai that Pasha had built here. These two events are linked events. Our study aims to explain how a port city developed in the historical process by centered on Öküz Mehmed Pasha, who has a very important place in the history of Kuşadası.