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ALIYE F. MATARACI
the network can be drawn as Manchester to the west, the Crimea to the north, Erzurum
to the east, and Tunisia to the south of the capital. The geographical distribution
of the commercial partners of the Mataracızâde merchant house immediately
reveals that this was a maritime trans-regional network covering several ports and
hinterland locations. Table 2 shows the list of ports and hinterland locations in the
provincial branch, including the number of collaborators at each of these locations
(see also the map 10 in Appendix I).
Table 2
Geographical distribution of collaborators
Region
Coast
Number of
collaborators
Hinterland
Number of
collaborators
Black Sea Bafra 1 Keskim 3
Samsun 1 Çorum 1
Ünye 1
Giresun 2
Trabzon 3
Of 1
Rize 21
Atina 8
Batumi 1
Marmara Bandırma 1 Adapazarı 1
İzmit 3
Aegean İzmir 1
Mediterranean Adana 1 Isparta 1
Alexandretta 1 Damascus 1
Tunisia 1 Aleppo 1
Tripoli 1 Baghdad 2
Jaffa 1
Eastern Anatolia Gürün 1
Erzurum 2
Malatya 1
The business partners of the Mataracızâde brothers were clearly concentrated on
the Black Sea: 43 out of 63, or more than two-thirds of all the collaborators, were
located in eleven different locations in the Black Sea region, including the coast and
the hinterland. Thirty-three of them, more than half, were based in the eastern
Black Sea. The concentration of ports and the collaborators in the Black Sea region
10 I am grateful to my colleague Sinan Çetin for drawing the map.
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