Schooling in Manastir (Bitola) Vilayet between 1878 – 1912 and Influence of Schooling on Nationalism
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- İstanbul Üniversitesi Avrasya İncelemeleri Dergisi
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Abstract (2. Language):
Manastır (Bitola) is among the places where schooling was practiced the most
intensively at the end of XIXth century, and in the beginning of the XXth Century. Thanks
to this feature, the province contributed to the structuring of the Balkan states, and to
the upbringing of their founding elites. Not only the schools in which Ottomanism and
Turkism flourished, but also the schools from various nations, were opened in Bitola
during the aforesaid period. These institutions, having acted quite influential on the
increase in the level of education and the rate of literacy, caused the upbringing of a
circle of intellectuals in Bitola. In consequence of such schooling initiatives, having
been allowed in good faith in parallel with the intent of modernization, the way for
rooting of the national consciousness was unexpectedly paved. These schools, having
been made use of as the instruments and symbols of the environment of conflict,
became one of the prominent arguments being put forth by the European States against
the Ottoman State during the process of “nation-building” in the Balkans. It will be
intended herein to manifest the schooling occurred in Bitola in the last quarter of the
XIXh Century, and in the beginning of the XXth Century, the effects of the Ottomanism,
Turkism, Slavism, Bulgarism, and Hellenism movements flourishing in these schools
on the formation of the mentalities in the region by way of resorting to the related
archival documents and statistical data.
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Abstract (Original Language):
Manastır (Bitola) is among the places where schooling was practiced the most
intensively at the end of XIXth century, and in the beginning of the XXth Century. Thanks
to this feature, the province contributed to the structuring of the Balkan states, and to
the upbringing of their founding elites. Not only the schools in which Ottomanism and
Turkism flourished, but also the schools from various nations, were opened in Bitola
during the aforesaid period. These institutions, having acted quite influential on the
increase in the level of education and the rate of literacy, caused the upbringing of a
circle of intellectuals in Bitola. In consequence of such schooling initiatives, having
been allowed in good faith in parallel with the intent of modernization, the way for
rooting of the national consciousness was unexpectedly paved. These schools, having
been made use of as the instruments and symbols of the environment of conflict,
became one of the prominent arguments being put forth by the European States against
the Ottoman State during the process of “nation-building” in the Balkans. It will be
intended herein to manifest the schooling occurred in Bitola in the last quarter of the
XIXh Century, and in the beginning of the XXth Century, the effects of the Ottomanism,
Turkism, Slavism, Bulgarism, and Hellenism movements flourishing in these schools
on the formation of the mentalities in the region by way of resorting to the related
archival documents and statistical data.
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