Biography

He was born in Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

 (Constantinople) to a Crimean Tatar

Crimean Tatars

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 family, which left Crimea

Crimea

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 for Constantinople in 1905. His birthday is unknown but İnalcık chose 26 May 1916 for his birthday. He attended Balıkesir

Balikesir

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 Teacher Training School and then Ankara University

Ankara University

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, Faculty of Language, History and Geography, Department of History and graduated in 1940. He completed his PhD in 1943 in the same department. His Ph.D. thesis was on the Bulgarian question in the late Ottoman Empire. He entered the same school as an assistant, then he became assistant professor in 1946 and after his return from lecturing in the University of London

University of London

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 for a while, he became a professor in the same department in 1952. He lectured in various universities in the United States

United States

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 as a guest professor. In 1972, he was invited by the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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. Between 1972 and 1993 he taught Ottoman history at the University of Chicago. In 1994, he returned to Turkey

Turkey

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 and founded history department at Bilkent University

Bilkent University

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 where he is still teaching. He was a member and president of many international foundations. He is a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

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 in Department of Historical Sciences. He is also a member of the Institute of Turkish Studies

Institute of Turkish Studies

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Works

• in English
  English language
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  • "The Policy of Mehmed II toward the Greek Population of Istanbul and the Byzantine Buildings of the City" (1968)
  • "Capital Formation in the Ottoman Empire" (1969), The Journal of Economic History
    The Journal of Economic History
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    , Vol. 29, No. 1, The Tasks of Economic History, pp. 97–140
  • "Ottoman Policy and Administration in Cyprus after the Conquest" (1969)
  • History of the Ottoman Empire Classical Age / 1300-1600 (1973)
  • The Ottoman Empire: Conquest, Organization and Economy (1978)
  • Studies in Ottoman Social and Economic History (1985)
  • The Middle East and the Balkans under the Ottoman Empire: Essays on Economy and Society (1993)
  • An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1914 (with Donald Quataert, 1994)
  • From Empire to Republic: Essays on Ottoman and Turkish Social History (1995)
  • Sources and Studies on the Ottoman Black Sea: The Customs Register of Caffa 1487-1490 (1996)
  • Essays in Ottoman History (1998)

• in Turkish
  Turkish language
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  • Osmanlı İmparatorluğu Klasik Çağ 1300-1600 ("Classical Age of the Ottoman Empire") (2003)

His most important work was his first book, Hicrî 835 tarihli Sûret-i defter-i sancak-i Arvanid (Copy of the register for A.H. 835 for the Sanjak of Albania) which was published in Ankara

Ankara

Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....

in 1954 and presents one of the earliest available land register in Ottoman Empire's archives.

External links

• Official Web Page - Halil İnalcık Web Page
• Bilkent University - Halil İnalcık Collection
• Who is Who Database - Halil İnalcık
• Biyografi.net - Halil İnalcık