Özet:

Tokat located at the inner part of the Mid Black Sea Region, has been under the rules of various civilizations. The city in the archaic era was located 6 km away from the today's city core on the north-east direction. The city core moved to the place of today in order to protect itself from the religious conflicts during the first period of Christianity Religion. The city continued to survive during the Byzantine, Danishmend, Seljuk, Ilhanlı and Ottoman era. Beyhamam and Bey Streets where this study was performed belong to the Ottoman's era and are located within the protected area. These two streets are continuing to survive without damaging its peculiar historical texture. But, negligence and abandoned are the two main threats to these two streets. It is known that the people used to live here twenty years ago were the owners of the houses and consisted of family having respectable income level. As a result of abandoning the houses by the owners due to either for moving to big cities or the newly built houses in the city, the houses were rented to the low income level people. This process has caused rapid deformation of the houses. The houses that are currently let alone were renovated by applying small scale restoration only on front facade level in 1986. In this study, determination an architectural analyses of these traditional houses in Beiham and Bey Streets have been done.General characteristics of their layout, their plan and facade types and their other features have been displayed with the visual materials.

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