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Sezen's dates are of four types (all expressed in the Gregorian calendar): | Sezen's dates are of four types (all expressed in the Gregorian calendar): | ||
# Years (n=7445) | |||
# Approximate years (designated by a `~`, perhaps indicating mathematical translation into the Gregorian calendar; n=1090) | |||
# Centuries (for instance, 16 yy.; n=585) | |||
# Ranges (typically with two years given, e.g. 1541-1686, but sometimes only a terminal year, e.g. "1926 yılına kadar"; sometimes the date range refers to a century rather than a year; n=99) | |||
I've retained the raw dates as they appear in Sezen, except for date ranges, which I've transposed into start and stop dates. | I've retained the raw dates as they appear in Sezen, except for date ranges, which I've transposed into start and stop dates. | ||
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As an alternative dating mechanism, I'm mapping Sezen's dates onto the periodization of the Ottoman dynasty. This will allow the clustering of administrative changes under the reigns of the various sultans, a periodization that may engage the historiography more readily than the raw year counts. | As an alternative dating mechanism, I'm mapping Sezen's dates onto the periodization of the Ottoman dynasty. This will allow the clustering of administrative changes under the reigns of the various sultans, a periodization that may engage the historiography more readily than the raw year counts. | ||
To do this, I'm using a new Linked Data tool called [perio.do PeriodO] that "eases the task of linking among datasets that define periods differently." I've used the chronology of sultans in Clifford Edmund Bosworth's ''[http://www.worldcat.org/title/new-islamic-dynasties-a-chronological-and-genealogical-manual/oclc/945765738 The new Islamic dynasties : a chronological and genealogical manual]'' (2014). The dates and their links can be found [http://n2t.net/ark:/99152/p0pf2qb on PeriodO]. | To do this, I'm using a new Linked Data tool called [https://perio.do PeriodO] that "eases the task of linking among datasets that define periods differently." I've used the chronology of sultans in Clifford Edmund Bosworth's ''[http://www.worldcat.org/title/new-islamic-dynasties-a-chronological-and-genealogical-manual/oclc/945765738 The new Islamic dynasties : a chronological and genealogical manual]'' (2014). The dates and their links can be found [http://n2t.net/ark:/99152/p0pf2qb on PeriodO]. | ||
Bosworth's solution to the problem of calendar conversion was simply to record the first Gregorian year that corresponded to the Hijri year in which each sultan came to power. In the notes field of each sultan's record, I've recorded the Hijri date of ascent that I found on Wikipedia. | Bosworth's solution to the problem of calendar conversion was simply to record the first Gregorian year that corresponded to the Hijri year in which each sultan came to power. In the notes field of each sultan's record, I've recorded the Hijri date of ascent that I found on Wikipedia. | ||