According to XVI. century resources poets from Kütahya and literary groups in it

VII ABSTRACT It is a well known fact that Kütahya is one of the most important centers in Turkish literary history. More over wc know that there are lots of poets who flourished in Kütahya. In XVI'th century literary resources we can get some knowledge about poets who lived in XIII, XIV, XV and XVI. centuries, hi XVI'th century literary resources the fallowing twenty eight poets are recorded: Abdullâh-ı İlâhî, Ahmedî, Ahmed-i Dâî, Azmî, Cebrî, Cinânî, Cemâlî, Firâkî, Hamzavî, Harîmî, Hasbî, 'İzârî, 'lydî, Kabûlî, Kalenden, Kemal Halvetî, Keşfi, Minneti, Muidî, Rahîmî, Re'yî, Sâatî, Subhî, Sirâcî, Şeyhoğlu, Vusûlî andYetîmî. Altough Celal Ergun lived before XVI. century he is not coincided in In XVI'th century literary resources. After adding Celal Ergun the number of poets flourished in Kütahya before XVI. century reaches to twenty nine. The era which sons of Süleyman the magnificient -Şehzade Bayezid and Şehzade Selim- have been in Kütahya for menagary duties is the era of poets. Becaouse Şehzade Bayezid and Şehzade Selim, supported poets. So poets writed lots books in verse and prose. Şehzade Bayezid, supported the fallowing poets: Gubârî, İşreti and Firâkî. Şehzade Selim, also supported the fallowing poets: Celal Bey, Nihanî Durak Çelebi, Fazlî-i Katib, Vusûlî, Gelibolulu Âlî, Bağdatlı Ahdî, Nigârî, Nişânî Rahîmî. Both in the era of Germiyans and Ottomans it is seen that poets are in relation with the power. It attracts attentions that some poets like Ahmedî and Şeyhoğlu were in struugle to became nearer to the power. As a result Kütahya is one of the most important literary centers becaouse of the poets flourished in Kütahya and poets coming from outside of Kütahya. The effects of governors in this reality can not be ignored. The importance of this work stems from the fact that in this thesis we give envantary of poets lived till XVI'th century. İt is purposed in this work to introduce poets from Kütahya and their relation with managers. We also aimed in this thesis to make apparent the cultural and literary heritage of Kütahya. Consequently the number of poets from Kütahya shows us that is one the major centers of literature, culture and education.