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Aşiyan (magazine)

Ottoman magazine (1908-1909)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ58034559 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Ottoman journal Aşiyan (Arabic: آشیان; DMG: Āšiyān; English: "Home") was published in Istanbul between 1908 and 1909 in a total of 14 issues. The content focused on literary, scientific and political topics. One of the most famous writers of Aşiyan is Halide Edib Adıvar (1884-1964), a popular Turkish nationalist, writer and feminist. She published a range of articles that dealt with the women's position in the Ottoman Empire, the modernization of women and the criticism of former politics.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1908, 1909, 1884, 1964—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Aşiyan, magazine and Ottoman can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Aşiyan (magazine)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.