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Halil İnalcık

1916 - 2016

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Halil İnalcık (7 September 1916 – 25 July 2016) was a Turkish historian. His highly influential research centered on social and economic approaches to the Ottoman Empire. His academic career started at Ankara University, where he completed his PhD and worked between 1940 and 1972. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Halil İnalcık has received more than 214,328 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Halil İnalcık is the 201st most popular historian (down from 168th in 2019), the 806th most popular biography from Turkey (down from 719th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Turkish Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Halil İnalcık ranks 201 out of 339Before him are Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, W. Montgomery Watt, Frederick Jackson Turner, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Yitzhak Arad, and Henri Maspero. After him are Antiochus of Syracuse, Krste Misirkov, Sigfried Giedion, Évariste Lévi-Provençal, Vasily Klyuchevsky, and Fritz Fischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Halil İnalcık ranks 121Before him are Walter Cronkite, Harold Robbins, Sangoulé Lamizana, Ruth Handler, Ramón José Velásquez, and Morris West. After him are Jackie Gleason, Iosif Shklovsky, Ingrid Vang Nyman, Charlie Christian, David White, and Jurij Brězan. Among people deceased in 2016, Halil İnalcık ranks 181Before him are Zdravko Tolimir, Franciszek Macharski, Scotty Moore, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Paul Kantner, and Louis Pilot. After him are Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Frank Sinatra Jr., Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, David Huddleston, Georges Cottier, and Qahhor Mahkamov.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Halil İnalcık ranks 806 out of 1,301Before him are Alexander of Jerusalem (200), Benjamin I of Constantinople (1871), Metin Oktay (1936), Constantine I, Prince of Armenia (1035), Sertab Erener (1964), and Alexios Apokaukos (1250). After him are Ariarathes V of Cappadocia (-200), Marcia Euphemia (500), Zeno of Tarsus (-250), Mustafa Denizli (1949), Adile Naşit (1930), and Fatma Aliye Topuz (1862).

Among HISTORIANS In Turkey

Among historians born in Turkey, Halil İnalcık ranks 21Before him are John Kinnamos (1143), Matthew of Edessa (1100), Philostorgius (368), Agatharchides (-208), Michael Attaleiates (1021), and Constantine Lascaris (1434). After him are Charles Barbier de Meynard (1826), Taner Akçam (1953), Sirarpie Der Nersessian (1896), and Constantine Paparrigopoulos (1815).