معرفی
Filiz Yıldırım is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Fırat University, located in Elazığ, Türkiye. She specializes in Ottoman history with a focus on historical geography, natural disasters, naval warfare, and economic administration. Her research leverages primary sources like Mühimme Defterleri (Ottoman court records) and Evliya Çelebi’s travel accounts to explore topics ranging from riverine military tactics to urban inheritance practices.
Her academic career began with a 2010 doctoral thesis on 16th-century tax records, followed by a 2017 dissertation on the Ottoman Danube Fleet. She has published extensively on the Tuna (Danube) River’s strategic, economic, and cultural significance in Ottoman history, including monographs like 1911 Tarihli Bir Talimnameye Göre Osmanlı’nın Sualtı Lağimleri (2021) and 1856 Tarihli Bir Risale Işığında Tuna Nehri’nin Tarihi Coğrafyası ve Jeopolitiği (2019).
Key research themes include: riverine military infrastructure, Ottoman disaster management systems, and the socio-economic role of rivers in trade/defense. Her work bridges military history with environmental studies, often analyzing how geography shaped state policies.
Yıldırım has contributed over 21 peer-reviewed works since 2010, with a particular emphasis on under-researched topics like Ottoman sappers, women’s property rights in Istanbul, and the role of Bosnian rivers in 17th-century travel narratives. She currently serves as a faculty member in Fırat University’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, continuing research on Ottoman Anatolia’s natural disaster governance and naval engineering innovations.