Local History of the National Struggle 1918-1923 (Vol 6): Artvin - Rize - Trabzon - Gümüşhane Giresun - Ordu - Samsun
The series titled Local History of the National Struggle 1918-1923 renews Türkiye's local memory of the National Struggle from city to city and shows how the years of the National Struggle were experienced in all over the country. With the participation and contribution of many academics and researchers, this study, in which the traces of the National Struggle at the local level are compiled and evaluated, aims to create a historical memory that people can feel themselves as a part of by harnessing the democratic, civil and participatory means of local history.
This volume covers the provinces of Artvin, Rize, Trabzon, Gümüşhane, Giresun, Ordu and Samsun. Important issues such as the departure of Mustafa Kemal Pasha to Samsun on May 19, 1919 as the 9th Army Inspector, the “Defence of National Rights” associations in the central sanjak of Trabzon Province and other sanjaks and provinces since the beginning of 1919, the Pontus Rebellion and the Armenian entry to the Black Sea, the supply of the Western Front by land and sea are discussed by making use of archival documents collected from home and abroad, newspapers of the period, memoirs, official publications and secondary sources.
Editor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Göleç, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Kevser Şerefoğlu, Assoc. Prof. Dr. İlhami Danış
Volume Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Hikmet Öksüz, Prof. Dr. Mesut Çapa