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IntersectionLieuXIXe–XXe siècle

Region: Turquie (Cilicie)

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Mersin (İçel), a rapidly developing Cilician port in the late Ottoman period, hosted a documented Jewish presence in Ottoman registers and foreign consular sources. Jews there were primarily merchants in the Mediterranean port economy.

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The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Mersin (İçel) give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.

You know a date — a remembrance, a hilloula, the anniversary of a departure? Give it its day

Sources & resources

  • Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic WorldBrill
  • Encyclopaedia Judaica2e éd., Keter/Macmillan

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