Özet:

The monastery province is one of the most risky earthquake areas in Ottoman Macedonia and the most active earthquake areas in the Balkan Peninsula. The earthquakes occurred in the monastery province were concentrated on the Struga-Ohri-Görice line. Among the examined dates, there have been frequent earthquakes on the line of Monastery-Ohri-Görice. In this study, the earthquakes occurring between 1893-1912 on the Struga-Ohri-Görice line in the Monastery province will be assessed and recorded with data obtained from the archive documents. However, the topic of catastrophic management and the reduction of the impact of the earthquake on society, which is the most important topic of earthquakes, was one of the priority issues for the Ottoman State in a period when the matter of Macedonia became an international issue. The Ottoman State’s work on catastrophic management will be referred to in order to reduce the impact of the earthquake on society.

Özet:

Monastery province is one of the riskiest of Ottoman Macedonia and Balkan Peninsula in terms of seismicity. It is observed that earthquakes happening in the monastery province are concentrated on Struga-Ohri-Görice line. It is detected that frequent earthquakes with various magnitudes happened on the Monastery-Ohri-Görice line between examined dates. In this study, earthquakes happened on the Struga-Ohrid-Görice line in Monastery province between the years of 1893-1912 will be evaluated and recorded with data obtained from archival documents. On the other hand, reducing the effects of disaster management and earthquake on the society, which is considered one of the most crucial topic titles of earthquakes was one of the priorities for Ottoman Empire at a time when Macedonia issue became an international problem. Disaster management efforts of Ottoman Empire for reducing the effects of earthquake on the society will be discussed.

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