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This article focuses on Moscovite (in Turkish Moskof) as a common Turkish historical metaphor in Ottoman-Turkish official and non-official archival documents. As a historical word and concept, not only bilateral relations of Ottoman State and Russian Empire, but also the historical flow of the Turkish-Russian – which is non-ottoman political space and geography- relations in general, determined the meaning load and metaphorization process of the name Moscovite. Since name Moscovite is a mono-block concept, when considered over the history of the Ottoman Empire, it has undergone narrow, structural and cyclical interventions, so his meaning changed and transformed over time. The official Ottoman-Turkish texts, in the Turkish written state language and recorded the whole multi-national, social, political, cultural and economic life, and the increasingly complex framework of sovereign states, societies and international relations, and which were dated to before the 19th century (1800-) entitled “Old Records” (Kuyud-ı Kadime, Eski Evrak). In his part of Ottoman Turkish archival documents, the raison d’état and meaningful presence of Russian, Russia (Rus, Rusya in Turkish changing written forms) as well as Moscovite (Moskof) and variant forms alone, separately, side by side, together in more than one type of text, is immediately striking. The powerful political, social and cultural conceptualization and metaphorization adventure of this specific name, in terms of Ottoman and non-Ottoman modern Turkish peoples’ (nations) history (Post-Soviet and in Soviet historical background), the conquest of İstanbul (1453) should also be considered as the beginning, and for the process of transformative interventions of the word into colors, shapes and forms. The second turning historical point, is the date of 1774 (in Turkish Kaynarca, Küçük Kaynarca Antlaşması, Treaty of Kuchuk Kaynardja Treaty) vis-à-vis of Ottoman-Russian relations, which is carrying along the dates of 1783 and 1792, each of tree dates should be attributed to the breaking points for the political cultural semantic sphere of this word, so this article handle to discuss and analyse the Ottoman and post-ottoman ideological make-up of this metaphor within the various official archival documents.

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