Özet:

During the Ottoman era, Ankara appears to us as an important trade center of Anadolu. In Ankara, which specializes in the cultivation of tiftic goats, sofun, which is a touched fabric from tiftic that is obtained from these goats, has an important place in the economic and social life of the city. Geographically located in the center of Anadolu and on the transition routes of trade routes in Ankara, the importance of sofa production has directed domestic and foreign traders to engage in commercial activities in this city. In this study, the general characteristics were evaluated by examining the production and trade of sofas of Ankara during the Ottoman State period. Furthermore, the place and importance of the trade based on the production of sofas in Ankara in the commercial life of the Ottoman State was attempted to show up with the help of the documents in the records of Sheri and XIX. At the end of the century, the causes of the decrease in the production of sofas and trade based on this production have been investigated. The research results in the production and trade of sofas in Ankara XVI-XVIII. Thro the centuries he was the leader in both the Ottoman State and Europe, but the XIX. It has been seen to lose this position since the beginning of the century. The main cause of this loss was the post-Industrial Revolution period when the British became the leading position in the textile industry and began to cultivate typhic goats in Africa.

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