Historical Database

Following Ordinary People

The first and perhaps most striking goal of the project is to bring to light the stories of ordinary people who lived in the Anatolian geography and had very diverse social and economic backgrounds, and to clearly reveal the complex social, cultural and economic relationships between these individuals.

The concept of 'ordinary person' addressed in this project encompasses not only individuals from lower socio-economic classes, but also a wide range that includes the anonymous heroes of daily life of the period, which traditional historiography generally neglects.

With the information obtained from the rich sources examined, a comprehensive database containing approximately 1000 different characters, from peasants to merchants, from soldiers to slaves, who may not have been considered very important under the conditions of that period and did not play leading roles in major historical events, but are vital for us to vividly imagine the ordinary daily life in Medieval Anatolia, has been created.