The Cassification of the Poets in Hasan Çelebi Tezkire by Cities and the City Descriptions

Abstract

In this research article 618 Dîvân poets in Tezkiretü't-Tuârâ of Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi, one of the tezkire writers of XVIth century, have been classified by the cities they belong to and, Hasan Çelebi's historical, geographical and cultural descriptions of the cities that each of the 158 poets belong to have been written in contemporary Turkish. In addition to this, the descriptions of the cities in the other tezkires of XVIth century have also been touched on as comparative.