Road construction and repair projects from transportation investments made in Anatolian territories during the Abdulhamid (II) period and their effects on the economic structure

This definition shows how great the mission and the breadth of meaning attributed to the concept of transportation have been since the existence of human beings. The main purpose of this thesis study is to examine the economic effects on the road route within the cause and effect relationship as a result of the road construction and repair activities, which took place in the transportation investments made in the period of 1876-1908. First of all, the province, county, port, etc., where road construction and repair was carried out. Locations were determined within the framework of the partitioning in the regulations of the provinces, which was issued in 1871. Then, statistical information (expenditure amount, road length, etc.) related to archive research and road construction and repair activities in these locations were determined in the light of archive documents. In the analysis part, the analysis of road construction and repair activities in the light of agricultural production, industrial activities and commercial activities budget, agricultural production, import and export data and archive documents was made during the research period. In this research, it has been determined that there is an increase in the mentioned activity areas in the examined locations. In certain periods, it has been observed that there are decreases in these activity areas due to the presence of various reasons (earthquake, flood, drought, etc.). Also, in this study, due to the fact that there is a bidirectional causality relationship between transportation expenditures and economic growth in literature research, a detailed examination of the projects that were completed but not completed during the research period was made for their contribution to these researches.