Tshukuri (modern Çukuryurt): Greek Christian village

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/6134.C3547
Level Item
Description Film negative, approximately half plate size, an original negative.
Dimensions 12x9 cm
Place Tshukuri
Cappadocia
Dates 1911
Donor/Creator Dawkins, Mr Richard McGillivray
Project Greek Dialects in Asia Minor 1909-1914
Scope and Content Part of a collection of images from Dawkins' travel to Cappadocia and Pharasa between 1909 and 1911. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Asia Minor, [SIC Tchoukouryourt] Tskukuri, Greek Christian village".
Notes Date based on Dawkins' travel to Cappadocia to study Greek dialects between 1909 and 1911. In the introduction of his 1916 book A Modern Greek in Asia Minor ( p. 1), he mentions villages by the year he visited and plates at the end of the book are maps of the area.