An Ottoman Town Situated in the Basin of Danube at the Sixteenth Century: The Town of ？smail Ge？idi

This article commonly explains how and when the town of Ismail Ge？idi to found at the second part of sixteenth century as an Ottoman town set up by Mehmed A？a, chief black eunuch of the Sultan Murad III, originally from Abyssinia. Ismay？l Ge？idi, now one of the modern towns of Ukraine, was established as a guardhouse on a pass of the basin of Danube at the second part of sixteenth century. There was no safety and order in this region because of pressures from Russia, Crimean and Caucasian elements. He settled a mixed population (Greeks, Serbians, Tartars, Moldavians, Vlahs, Nogai, Crimeans) into the town, based on the Ottoman law on the pass. Ottoman sultan Murad III assigned him this region as a private property to develop a new military and commercial centre at the basin of Danube. He built a mosque, bath, fort and wharf and then set up an Islamic waqfs to restore his town. Borders belonged to the waqf were determined. Today, we have some Ottoman archival documents about his pious endowment, written in Ottoman Turkish. In this article, information was given on the waqfs of the town of Ismail Ge？idi, administratively belonged to Bender in that time