XIX. Yüzyılın Sonlarında Elviye-i Selâse’de Karayolu Yapım Faaliyetleri

Highway Construction Activities in Elviye-i Selase in the Later Part of Nineteenth Century

Özet

Osmanlı’da, Elviye-i Selase diye bilinen Kars, Ardahan, Batum şehirlerinin

Abstract

the Ottoman Empire, the Çoruh River Basin constitutes an important part of theregion where Kars, Ardahan and Batum cities known as Elviye-i Selase are located.This valley has Artvin and its districts in a region that is called "the soils neighboringthe sky".The region, which consists of high mountains and cliff rocks that do not give passage,is strategically important due to not only its presence on the Russian border, but alsoits physical beauty and its underground and above-ground treasures. In order toprevent the expansionist Russia’s attention due to these properties of these lands,Ottoman Empire, besides the military precaution, had commercial and economicactivity in the region by making highways and tried to hinder the imperialist Russianpolitics.In this study, the construction activities of highways that can be used for the purposeof preventing external threats that may arise and that may build any kind of relationbetween the settlements in the region are discussed.

Anahtar kelimeler: Osmanlı, Rusya, Artvin, Batum, Erzurum, Kars, karayollars, karayolları