Şehirsel Toponimi (Hodonimi): Türkiye İçin Bir Tipoloji Denemesi

Abstract

Streets, avenues and roads are the most significant parts of cities considered complete text. These meaningful parts related to main text are at the same time memory space that stores past experiences. In parallel with the idea that past experiences live in names, this study examines streets names in cities (urban toponymy, hodonymy) and develops a typology for Turkey. This research considers 24 cities as a sample survey in different geographical regions of Turkey. These street names have been obtained from city plans. Turkish cities are full of symbolic names from the democratic republic regime. Changes arising due to security reasons, physical expansion of cities because of horizontal growth, ancestral ties, cultural proximity, political reasons, population of cities and differences in land use are among other reasons that affect street names of the cities in Turkey. The typology developed subjected to these factors, aside from the sub-headings, consists of sevenmain headings. These can be classified as republic streets, martyr streets, friendship and fellowship streets, place/direction identification streets, numerical streets, streets related to important persons and other streets

Keywords

• city
• hodonymy
• street names
• turkey