Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Devlet Salnamelerinde Rize (1925-1929)

Abstract

State yearbooks as an extension of “salname” tradition in Ottoman Empire to Republic of Turkey, contain important information as a tool for communication between the center and the provinces. The provincial yearbooks also provide information on the administrative, demographic and socio-economic status of the provinces, such as the state yearbooks. In addition to the information of the individual provinces, these works include the administrative mechanism of the state and the administrators assigned to the regions and the civil service. The word salname, which consists of the words sal: year and name: letter, book, means annual. State yearbooks, which were published regularly between 1847-1912, could not be issued in the war years, the last one was published in 1918; It continued to be republished in the Republican era from 1925; State yearbooks, issued in Latin letters since 1928, were published. This study has been benefited four state yearbook issued in 1925 until 1929. The 1925-26 yearbook consists of 884, the 1926-27 yearbook is 1127, the 1927-28 yearbook is 1300, and the 1928-29 yearbook consists of 759 pages. In the light of the information in the aforementioned yearbooks, in this period covering the first years of the Republic, the situation of Rize province will be tried to be clarified. Keywords: Yearbook, State yearbook of Turkish Republic, Rize.