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Izmir 1911 #eskiizmir Images of Izmir Center and Provinces from 1911 Images of Izmir from the Occupation Years of 1919-1922 Images of the Izmir Fire of 1922 and After Images of the Opening of the 1936 Izmir Fair The first Ottoman administrator of Izmir, which was a second-degree sanjak in the first centuries of Ottoman rule, was Karasubaşı Hasan Ağa. Izmir was the scene of the Arap Sait and Kalenderoğlu uprisings within the scope of the Celali Rebellions in 1605-1606. However, after the capitulations granted to foreigners by the Ottoman Empire in 1620, the city gradually became one of the most important trade centers of the Empire. The French consulate was opened in 1619, and the British consulate in 1620. In the meantime, the city's demographic structure also began to change. 16th-century sources state that there were nineteen mosques, eighteen synagogues and only one Greek Orthodox church in Izmir, and that only one of the city's nine neighborhoods was inhabited by Christians. Therefore, at that time, the city center must have been predominantly Muslim Turkic, with a significant and deep-rooted Jewish community (Sabatay Sevi emerged from the Izmir Jewish community in the 17th century), and Christian Greeks must have been a minority. Evliya Çelebi also recorded the first observations of the change in the demographic structure during his visit to Izmir in 1672, and wrote that an increasing number of local non-Muslims, Levantines and Western merchants were concentrated in the Alsancak (Punta) neighborhood. In 1676, Izmir experienced a plague epidemic in which approximately thirty thousand people died, and in 1742, a great fire burned half of the city. The first appointment made by the Ottomans to Izmir at the level of a pasha was Köprülü Abdullah Pasha, who was appointed in 1716 after the Buca Revolt organized by foreign merchants in 1707. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the city was a favorite of French, English, Dutch and Italian merchants. Parallel to this development, the province of Aydın was first temporarily transferred to İzmir in 1841 and then permanently in 1850. Sultan Abdülmecid visited İzmir in the same year and Sultan Abdülaziz in 1863, and the first mayor of the municipality founded in 1871 was Yenişehirlizade Ahmet Efendi. Narrated by: Ata Taşpınar Content preparation, editing: Akif Tanrıkulu