Contents

Klaus Kreiser
Foreword V

Acknowledgements XI

Birgit Krawietz and Florian Riedler

Approaching Edirne. Dis-/Connections and Attractions 1

Part I: Forming Edirne

Amy Singer
In Search of Early Ottoman Edirne 25

Panagiotis Kontolaimos
The Formation of Early Ottoman Urban Space. Edirne as Paradigm 44

M. Sait Özervarlı
Connecting Capitals. Edirne Among Early Ottoman Scholarly
Destinations 67

Part II: Imperial Architecture

Philip Geisler
Challenging the Hagia Sophia. The Selimiye Mosque in Edirne
as Ottoman Empire Branding 91

Robin Wimmel
Edirne as a Stopover Destination. The Ekmekçioğlu Caravanserai
and the Ottoman Road Network 152

Part III: Heritage Construction in the Turkish

National State

Florian Riedler
The Resurrection of Edirne’s New Imperial Palace as National
Heritage 207

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Birgit Krawietz
Designing Edirne’s Heritage Trail and Turkish Oil Wrestling 233

Part IV: Crossroads Edirne

Aziz Nazmi Şakir

The Formation of the First Ottoman “Mother of Israel” in Edirne 285

Vjeran Kursar
The Diplomatic, Religious, and Economic Presence of the Republic
of Dubrovnik (Ragusa) in Ottoman Edirne 302

Part V: Disrupting and Re-framing

Darin Stephanov
The Beautiful and the Brutal. Bulgarian Images of Odrin (Edirne)
and the Contours of the Ethnonational Mindset 347

Birgit Krawietz
The Balkan War Martyrdom Memorial and Intersensorial Remembrance
in Edirne 380

Berna Pekesen
The Anti-Jewish Pogrom in 1934. Problems of Historiography,
Terms and Methodology 412

Part VI: Re-connecting Edirne

Florian Riedler
Building Modern Infrastructures on Ancient Routes. Road
and Rail Development in 19th-Century Edirne 435

Jean-François Pérouse
Region versus Metropolis. Thrace and Sprawling Istanbul 469

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Steffen Wippel
Edirne as a Secondary City. Global Reconfiguration of the Urban 484

Birgit Krawietz and Florian Riedler

Outlook 534

List of Contributors 553

Image Credits 555

Index 565

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