Özet:

This study aims to detect the place names in Mehmet Akif Ersoy's work titled Safahat. Being carried out through the method of document analysis, the study was conducted on Safahat, which was published by Morpa Culture Publications in 1997 with content analysis. Accordingly, place names in the work were collected under different categories, being region names, continent names, state names, city names, district names, villages, and geographical names such as, mountain, river, etc. collected in six categories, including geographical names. According to the findings of the research, it was concluded that 121 different place names were repeated 262 times in Safahat. While Süleymaniye Kürsüsünde (f=57) and Fatih Kürsüsünde (f=55) are the sections where place names are used most frequently, the most common place name categories in the book are state names (f=80) and city names (f=59). When all categories are taken into account, the most frequently repeated place names in the work are the European Continent (f=16), Iran (f=9), Ottoman (f=9), India (f=8), Russia (f=8), Istanbul (f=8), Nile River (f=8), China (f=7), Sea of Marmara (f=6), Egypt (f=5) and Bukhara (f=5), respectively.