Abstract
Trabzon has been one of the most important ports in the Black Sea Region, and it started to experience a strong change and transformation from the second half of the 19th century. The social, political, religious, economic and cultural reflections of this process have deeply affected the daily life of the city. Parallel to the increase in the commercial, political and diplomatic importance of Trabzon, this process invalidated the spaces of the traditional life in the city with their inhabitants and foregrounded the non-Muslim living spaces as the new center of the city. This space was Gâvur Meydani, which was the life space of the life-style that emerged around the local and foreign non-Muslim population of Trabzon. Kavak Meydani was the social, political and administrative center and the shopping districts were the center of the traditional economic-social life, which were all foregrounded by the traditional life. The reaction of the state to this process was to survive the classical living spaces by modernizing them and to join them to the newly emerging center.
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