Three Periods of Antalya in the 19th Century

This article covers three periods of Antalya in the 19th century. The first of these periods, dated between 1814 and 1840, witnessed the regression caused by the revolt initiated by the Tekelioglu family, one of the prominent actors of the "age of ayans" in the region, and efforts of the Sublime Porte to prevent this process of regression. In the second period, roughly dat- ed between 1840 and 1890, the city benefited from the rapid growth of foreign trade in the Ottoman geographical sphere. After the 1890s, the city's history was determined by economic stagnation and inter-communal conflicts, the effects of which became more pronounced afterwards. Based on this periodization, this article attempts to evaluate the history of Antalya in the 19th century from the perspective of the Ottoman Empire's centralization and mod- ernization efforts, and to determine Antalya's status among the port cities of the Eastern Mediterranean.