BALIKESİR’DE ŞEHİRSEL TOPONİMİ: CADDE ADLARI Urban Toponymy in Balıkesir: Street Names

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800x600 Oz Cadde, yol ve bulvarlar kimlikten yoksun degildir. Onlar gecmis deneyimleri ve ideolojik tavirlari icinde saklayan bellek mekânlardir. Sembolik olarak cevreye anlam verme sureci olan adlandirma ile bu tavir ve deneyimler okunabilmektedir. Bu calismada sehirsel toponimi olarak tanimlanabilecek cadde adlari Balikesir sehrinde ele alinmaktadir. Adlandirma yazininda kullanilan iki yaklasim birlikte alinarak konuya butuncul bir bakis acisi getirilmektedir. Sehir plani, Belediye Meclis kararlari, mahalle muhtarlari baslica veri kaynagi olmustur. Sonuc olarak Balikesir sehri, cok sayida Cumhuriyet caddesine sahiptir. Bu caddeler, ulus devlet olma surecinde devletin caddelere karsi ideolojik tavrini ifade etmektedir. Temelde politik olmayan nedenlerle ortaya cikan caddeler de vardir. Sehirde toplumsal kederin ifadesi olan cok sayida sehit caddesi varken, bir adet dostluk kardeslik caddesi vardir. Bu acidan bakilinca sehir Balkan goclerinin izlerini unutmus durumdadir. Sayisal caddelerin bazi alanlarda varligi, sehir dokusunun istikrarli bir hale gelmedigini gostermektedir. Cok sayida yer-yon belirten caddeler, sehrin dogasi, arazi kullanisi gibi cok sayida nedenin karsilikli etkilesimi sonucu ortaya cikmislardir. Sehirde cadde adlari olarak kullanilan cok sayida sahis adi vardir. Ancak bu sahislar herhangi bir siyasi dusuncenin temsilcisi durumunda degildirler. Dolayisiyla yerel siyasetin cadde adlari uzerinde bu anlamda etkili oldugu soylenemez. Anahtar kelimeler: Cadde adlari, Balikesir, Cumhuriyet caddeleri, sehit caddeleri, dostluk-kardeslik caddeleri, yer-yon belirten caddeler, sayisal ve sahis caddeleri ABSTRACT Streets, roads and avenues are not devoid of identity. They are memory space where past experiences and ideological attitudes are stored. These experiences and attitudes can be read by naming which is a symbolic meaning-making process. In this study, defined as urban toponymy, streets names are discussed in Balikesir city. Holistic perspective on the subject is brought together by using two approaches common in naming literature. City plan, the City Council decisions, the neighborhood headmen are the main data source . As a result, the city of Balikesir , has a large number of Republican street . These streets refer to state’s ideological attitude to the process of becoming nation-state. Basically, there are avenues emerging non-political reasons. While city has many martyrs’ streets in the city, which are expressions of social grief , there exists only one friendship-brotherhood Street. From this point of view, the city has forgotten traces of the Balkan migrations. The presence of digital streets names in some areas of city shows that urban texture has not become stable. Many places - directional streets have emerged as a result of the interplay of large number of causes, like nature of city and land usage . There are numerous personal name used as street names in the city . However, these individuals are not representative of any political thought . Therefore, local politics in this sense cannot be said to be effective on street names. Key words: Street names , Balikesir, republican streets, martyr’s streets , friendship - brotherhood streets, place - directional streets, digital and personal streets . Normal 0 21 false false false TR X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:Normal Tablo; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;}