@article{2014,title={THE ANATOLIA PIERS AND THEIR ROAD LINKS (AT THE END OF THE XVITH CENTURY)},abstractNode={In the 16th Century Ottoman State reached its peak with land from the continents of Asia, Europe and Africa. The conquest and administration of these regions and subsistence of the capital city required a functional sea and land route system. From the early Ottoman conquests, the Ottomans took over the Roman road system, with Byzantine and the Seljuks adjunctions. The Ottomans did some regulations to these routes after necessities. These regulations could be building of bridges or laying down of pavements or improvement of substructure/infrastructure for more functional use. The Ottoman State recorded this sea and land route-system detailed and in a systematic way for first time in a official document H. 1002 / M. 1594-1595 (a menzil and a harbor register). According to this register, the Ottomans had six different main routes. Three of these were in the Anatolian area while the rest were in the Rumelia. The Ottoman State entitled these according to the continent they were located and their location regarding to İstanbul. In this manner the Ottomans named the routes in Europe as Rumelian right, middle and left branch; routes in Asia and partially Africa as Anatolian right, middle and left branch. Furthermore the continuation part of the register shows a list of harbours taking place on the sea route. Also four sea routes were registered, two of them started from İstanbul and the rest two started from Üsküdar. The routes which started from Üsküdar sailed to the Anatolian coasts when the other sailed to coasts of Rumelia. Also it appears that in some places, main routes and in other places secondary routes met with the harbours which functioned as menzils on the sea routes. },author={Cemal ÇETİN},year={2014},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}