Abstract:

The verbal history has a separate value in terms of revealing the reactions and perspectives of ordinary people to events. Instead of events, more human, cultural and religious elements that cannot be found in written historical documents can be revealed by verbal historical studies. In this regard, verbal history, by adding the experiences of ordinary life to history, becomes a means of accessing different information that is not found in written sources, and takes the human element, which is the object of history, as its basic source of information. In this study, the 1939 Erzincan earthquake, which is one of the greatest natural disasters in the recent history of Turkey, was studied by the verbal history method. Although many studies have been conducted in the academic field on this subject to date, these studies are usually created on the basis of written documents. This study, in the context of the verbal principles of history, has been shaped from a perspective that focuses on man.

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