The Use of Gis to Locate Abandoned Villages Listed in the Temettuat Registers of Balikesur District, Anatolia

Located in the northwest of Anatolia in the Republic of Turkey, the Balıkesir region is the nodal region of inland traffic linking the three large cities of Istanbul, Bursa, and Izmir (Figure 9.1). By the middle of the nineteenth century, 11 villages in this district (Kaza) were ruined and lost, and today there is little explicit evidence showing the locations of these villages. This study attempts to extrapolate the locations of these villages from only one sheet of a historical document with the aid of geographical information systems (GIS). Figure 9.1 The Bal1kesir Region. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203401422/1e436c3e-b699-45a1-8b79-973d77c2f4b2/content/fig9_1_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>