KONGRE BİLDİRİLERİ
Claudiu -Victor TURCİTU
National Archives of Romania / ROMANIA
TURKISH TOPONYMY VERSUS ROMANIAN TOPONYMY. TITLE DEEDS
COLLECTION FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF ROMANIA
T
Mevki isimlerini gösterir 1934 yılı 1/25000 ölçekli bölge haritası
(Torbalı Belediyesi Kent Arşivi)
1934 yılı baskılı 1/25000 ölçekli haritada mevkilerin gösterimi (Torbalı Belediyesi Kent Arşivi)
(Altları çizgili olan mevki adları bugün kullanılan ancak haritada belirtilmeyen yerler olup
tarafımca eklenmiştir.)
(Footnotes)
1 Veriliş sebebi.
2 Kullanıcısı.
3 Sıra no / Tarihi.
4 Bedel-i Misil-Bedel-i Müzayede.
5 Çatılı bina.
6 Samanlık - Hayvan damı.
7 Vakıf geliri.
8 Tarih/sıra no .
9 Araştırma sahasında Eğerci Köyü bulunmaktadır. Söz konusu köy Eğerci olmalıdır.
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Tapu ve Kadastro Genel Müdürlüğü
he purpose of this paper is to analyze on the one side the main transformations appeared in
the Toponymy of the Dobrogean space, duringthe Ottomanand Romanianadministrationsince
1930 and on the other hand the analysis of the content and the importance of the documents
within the Title Deeds Collection preserved at the National Archives of Romania, emphasizing the
condition of the Turkish toponymy during the final period of the Ottoman administration in Dobrogea.
Dobrogea is one of the most interesting Romanian geographic areas considering its variety and the
succession of the events developed here: From the Greek cities established here in the first half of the
7thcentury, to the Roman domination starting in the First century, than to the Byzantine Empire and
Bulgarian Kingdom, to the Ottoman Empire and finally a Romanian province in 1878.
The reality of the Dobrogean space leads to the necessity of a personal name. To name an object,
a person or a place is to confirm its existence. It also means offering a new life to a word that becomes
name, to acknowledge its individuality. To create, to use and to register a name is to transform this
name in a mean of communication and to offer it a privileged place in the collective memory.
The toponymy as tool of communication must be subjected to certain standards to ensure properly their basic function-to localize and to orientate. In the same time, the toponymy offers the information transmitted by the respective territory under numerous faces, tells its entire history, geography,
reveals its beauties, hopes and fears. The toponymy becomes a witness of the region in its space and
time dimensions.
It must be specified that a study on the Turkish toponymy in Dobrogea was never made in the
Romanian historiography. Also, it should be noticed the lack of any paper presenting the toponymi 0