Contemporaries were aware of this movement, as is clearly indicated by Athanasius in his preface to the Life of Antony, where he mentions the monks from abroad, who had asked him to write about Antony, so that they might have something to take home with them. The flow of ideas from east to west in the ancient world was particularly true of monasticism, a movement that arose in the East, in Egypt, Palestine, and Syria, then attracted travelers from the West and finally was imitated in the West. and Greek may still have been spoken there in the fourth century A.D. Marseilles, not far from the mouth of the Rhone, had been founded as a Greek colony by 600 B.C.
already the recipient of eastern influences for over a thousand years. Two great rivers, the Nile and the Rhone, represent symbolically two cultural poles: Egypt, one of the cradles of civilization in the ancient world, already the repository of ancient wisdom in the eyes of the Greeks, and Gaul, younger but by the fourth century A.D. This research is based on both quantitative and qualitative analysis for which we used some documents which are part of the heritage of the Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi (The Ottoman Archives of the Prime Minister’s Office).įrom the Preface: The title of this collection of essays is meant to reflect the flow of ideas in the ancient world from east to west, especially in the area around the Mediterranean. In this context, in our study we used the correspondence and reports changed between the official institutions of the Ottoman state regarding these immigrants.
This study provides some valuable information about Muslims who migrated from Romania to the Ottoman state during the war, about their settlement, and about the long and difficult process of adapting to new conditions of life. In order to avoid the risk of massive destruction of the Muslim community by the Romanians, thousands of Ottoman subjects from civil servants, women and elders emigrated to Ottoman territory from settlements such as Galați (Romanian spelling), Bucharest, Brăila (Romanian spelling), Balchik and Sulina (Romanian spelling). This political movement was received with restlessness by the Muslim Ottoman subjects living on the Romanian territory. Two years after the beginning of the First World War, Romania, in order to balance the allied powers that at that time formed the balance of power, entered the war on the part of the Entente powers to protect its own political interests. After centuries of Ottoman control, Romania gained its independence after the Ottoman-Russian War of 1877-1878. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive presentation on issues related to Muslim Ottoman subjects who during the First World War who moved from Romania to the Ottoman lands.
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