Study Guide for Claude Cahen, The Birth of Turkey
Claude Cahen, now retired, was for a long time the leading French historian
of Seljuk and early Turkish history in the Middle East. He taught at the
University of Paris/Sorbonne. This is a section from his classic book,
Pre-Ottoman Turkey, which was published in English translation first in
1968.
- 1. What is Cahen's main point in this chapter? It appears, partly,
in the first paragraph.
- How does Cahen explain the "ethnic" transformation of Anatolia/Asia
Minor from largely Greek and Armenia to largely Turkish? Why was this transformation
important?
- Terms/places,names
- immigration
- turkization
- Azerbaijan
- Asia Minor/Anatolia
- Armenia
- turcoman
- Cappadocia
- Taurus Mountains
- Pontus Mountains
- Konya
- Rum
- Oghuz
- Mongols