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- Rumeli'de bir nehir
Karaferye[]
Author(s): Ménage, V.L.
(in earlier sources also karaverye), Ottoman name for Bérrhoia, Béroia (mod. Gk., Vérria, Véria; Slavonic, Ber), a small town in Macedonia, 60 km. WSW of Salonika, 8 km. from the left bank of the Aliákmon (Vistrítza; Tk. Ind̲j̲e Ḳara Ṣu), near the foot of the eastern slopes of the Olympene range (Tk. Ag̲h̲ustos Dag̲h̲i̊) and overlooking a broad and fertile plain: “one of the most agreeable towns in Rumili” (Leake). The Turkish epithet ḳarā [ q.v.] was prefixed perhaps in order to distinguish it from Bérrhoia in northern Thrace, Tk. [Eski] Zag̲h̲ra )cf. Jorga, GOR, i, 213). According to B…
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Wardar[]
Author(s): Ed,
, the Ottoman Turkish name for the Vardar , Grk. Axios, a river of the southern Balkans. It rises in the Šar Mountains near where Macedonia, Albania and the region of Kosovo meet, and flows northeastwards and then in a southeastern and south-south-eastern direction through the present (Slavic) Macedonian Republic [see maḳadūnyā ], past Skopje or Üsküb [ q.v.] and through Greek Macedonia to the Gulf of Salonica. Its length is 420 km/260 miles.
The lower valley of the Vardar probably passed into Ottoman Turkish hands around the time of the first Turkish capture of Salonica in 1387 [see selānīk …
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Wodina[]
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Author(s): Savvides, A.
Vodina , the Ottoman Turkish name for the Greek town of Edessa on the Via Egnatia in western Macedonia, lying to the northwest of Thessalonica [see selānik ] (lat. 40° 48’ N., long. 22° 03’ E.).
The name Vodina goes back to Slavonic voda “water” because of the abundance (bolluk) of water in the vicinity (çevre) of the town. In mediaeval times it was contested by Byzantines, Bulgarians, Serbs and Normans (see J. Perluga, in Lexikon des Mittelalters , iii/7, Munich-Zürich 1985, cols. 1565-7; R. Browning and A. Kazhdan, in Oxford dict. of Byzantium , New York-Oxford 1991, 2185). In …
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