Abstract:
In 1453, Ottoman that became the empire with the conquest of İstanbul, governed many
countries for many years. At the centuries-long reign, Ottoman didn’t limited the boundaries not
only with Anatolia but also it managed to rule over a large number of countries. .While it was
creeating architecture of some countries, it brought innovations to some countries, too. Thus the
architecture acted as a bridge from past to present and it provided culture transition. In these
countries, a large number of structures which were for social, cultural, commercial, religious and
educational were built with Ottoman architecture. Even rare of these structures survive today;
somehow, architectural heritage of the Ottoman Empire was moved to the present day. Turkish
structures in the Balkans form a part of Ottoman Turkish architecture in terms of plan, purpose
of usage, facade and decoration.
In the study, reflections of Ottoman architecture on the structures which take place in
Bucharest, Constanta and Yaş the cities of Romania, which located within the boundaries of
Ottoman and form the core with the unification of Wallachia and Moldavia, will be examined.
The data obtained as a result of the study will bring out both the importance of the structure in
the history of architecture with synthesis studies which are related with contrastive research of
different structures in the same period and similar structures in different periods, and it will
contribute to determine living standards of the ages and the degree of development.
