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Making property of a marsh: environment, property, and politics in nineteenth-century Ottoman Ioannina

Title	Making property of a marsh: environment, property, and politics in nineteenth-century Ottoman Ioannina
Author	Akpınar, Özkan
Publication Date:	2022-07-04
Publication Place	- Taylor & Francis
Subject	Ottoman Empire, Marshes, Reclaimed land, Property
Type	Periodical
Language	English
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID	0026-3206
Record ID	e9d9bd0b-9970-4eb3-9d5a-ebeb39c1b667
Library Location	Humanities and Social Sciences
Date	2022-07-04
Sample Text	This article discusses the contested character of property rights with respect to reclaimed land from marshes in the Ottoman Empire through the reclamation project for Lake Lapsista in Ottoman Ioannina starting from 1886. By the end of the nineteenth century, many marshes, lakes, and rivers in the Ottoman territories were planned to be cleaned and reclaimed for various purposes. However, as a result of reclamation projects, the possession of reclaimed land, and the way such lands were defined, became a vexed issue in which various actors became involved and struggled over controlling them. Focusing on struggles and negotiations the reclamation project created, the article aims to uncover how the ownership of reclaimed marshy regions were defined at the local level. Drawing on archival materials on the land dispute over the reclaimed Lake Lapsista from 1886 to 1909, the article shows that the struggle over control of the reclaimed land manifested itself in the attempts of both central and local actors to circumvent legal boundaries or manipulate legal regulation and codes at the local level, challenging approaches that only focus on legal texts and codes. © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
DOI	10.1080/00263206.2021.1996359
Cilt	58

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Making property of a marsh: environment, property, and politics in nineteenth-century Ottoman Ioannina

Author Akpınar, Özkan

Publication Date 2022-07-04

Publication Place - Taylor & Francis

Subject Ottoman Empire, Marshes, Reclaimed land, Property

Type Periodical

Language English

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library Özyeğin University

Library Asset ID 0026-3206

Record ID e9d9bd0b-9970-4eb3-9d5a-ebeb39c1b667

Library Location Humanities and Social Sciences

Date 2022-07-04

Sample Text This article discusses the contested character of property rights with respect to reclaimed land from marshes in the Ottoman Empire through the reclamation project for Lake Lapsista in Ottoman Ioannina starting from 1886. By the end of the nineteenth century, many marshes, lakes, and rivers in the Ottoman territories were planned to be cleaned and reclaimed for various purposes. However, as a result of reclamation projects, the possession of reclaimed land, and the way such lands were defined, became a vexed issue in which various actors became involved and struggled over controlling them. Focusing on struggles and negotiations the reclamation project created, the article aims to uncover how the ownership of reclaimed marshy regions were defined at the local level. Drawing on archival materials on the land dispute over the reclaimed Lake Lapsista from 1886 to 1909, the article shows that the struggle over control of the reclaimed land manifested itself in the attempts of both central and local actors to circumvent legal boundaries or manipulate legal regulation and codes at the local level, challenging approaches that only focus on legal texts and codes. © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

DOI 10.1080/00263206.2021.1996359

Cilt 58