Talk:Arap Mosque

Jews in Galata
Hallo Namuslu

I reinstated my changes on Arap Mosque. As I have written on the comment to my edit, the Jews coming from Spain were not resettled in Galata. The Jewish settlement in Galata occurred a couple of hundred years later. Moreover Hasköy, which - as you correctly wrote - lies in front of Balat -  has nothing to do with Galata. If you are confused about the historical geography of Istanbul (I wrote historical, since as Istanbullu I am sure that you know well the city as of today), you can usefully consult the books of Müller-Wiener and Janin. To be clear, when one uses "Galata" in the context of the 15th-16th century, one means the Genoese citadel. Generally speaking, when I write something on Wikipedia, I try to support the information with reliable sources: in this case this is the book of Robert Mantran ("La vie quotidienne a Constantinople..."). Mantran about the Jewish settlements in Istanbul uses as sources the two Celebis, which you can read, but I cannot (there is no translation available :-. Moreover, about the Jews in Istanbul you can read: "A history of the Jewish community in Istanbul" by Minna Rozen: there, are explained in detail all the changes in the Jewish settlement in the city around the centuries. Bye Alex2006 (talk) 06:46, 19 April 2012 (UTC)


 * The Sephardic Jews established the first printing press in Istanbul in 1493 (if I'm not mistaken, it was in Galata.) Namuslu (talk) 20:29, 19 April 2012 (UTC)


 * To be precise, by David and Samuel Ibn Nahmias, in 1493. Namuslu (talk) 20:35, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
 * No doubt that the Sephardi Jews of Spain landed in Istanbul (via Salonika) after 1492, what I mean is that on my sources there is no mention of Galata as settlement for them until the middle of the seventeenth century. Well, I will check at the main library in the next days. Anyway, the intro has other problems, I am going to fix them. Bye Alex2006 (talk) 04:55, 20 April 2012 (UTC)