Ottoman Song Map

0: Uskudar'a Giderken

Uskudar'a Giderken is a traditional song with a version in almost every language from the Balkans to the Middle East. Perhaps the rendition remains Boney M's

1: Yedi Kule

2: Pente Chronia Dikasmenos (I Foni tou Argile)

3: Ceviz Agaci

Sung by Cem Karaca, Ceviz Agaci is a song based on a poem by Communist poet Nazim Hikmet about hiding in a walnut tree while meeting his lover in Gulhane Park.

4: Yemen Turkusu

5: Manastir'in Ortasinda

Manastir'in Ortasinda describes the women of Manastir (now Bitola) in Macedonia. This was a favorite song of Ataturk, who attended military school in Manastir.

6: Χίλια Μύρια Κύματα

Χίλια Μύρια Κύματα conveys the loss experienced by Greeks from Ayvalik who were forcibly deported to Greece during the 1922 Greek-Turkish population exchange 

7: The Band Played Waltzing Matilda

The Band Played Waltzing Matilda is an Australian anti-war song based on the ANZAC experience of Gallipoli, most famously recorded by the Irish band the Pogues.

8: Razbolese Tsare Suleyman

9: Evlerin Onu Mersin

10: Oy Trabzon Trabzon

11: Izmir'in Kavaklari

12: Beyoglunda Gezersin

13: Bursa'nın Ufak Tefek Taşları

14: Adana Kopru Basi

15: Kozanoglu

16: Yandi Cukurova

17: Afyon Ortasinda Galesi Var

18: Erzurum’dan Çevirdiler Yolumu

19: Ağrı Dağından Uçtum

20: Chechen Kizi

21: Aydin Icinde Kapali Carsi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52s7ign57qo

22: Ünye'den Çıktım da Başım Selamet

Ünye’den Çıktım Başım Selamet

23: Diyarbakir Turkusu

Written by Yusuf Hayaloglu, the Diyarbakir Turkusu was made famous by Ahmet Kaya on the album beni bul.

24: Tebriz Üstü Maraga

25: Gidiyorum Corum'a

A remarkably upbeat rendition of a song about someone's arm being crushed on the way to Corum.

26: Giresun Kayıkları

27: Al Yemeni Mor Yemeni

As this song explains, the women of Cyprus, the women of Cyprus are hardly better than those of Manastir.

28: Manisa'yla Bergama'nın Arası

While listening to Manisa'yla Bergama'nın Arası you can check out this map of Ottoman travel times to see how long the trip might have taken.

29: Akçadağ'ın Düzüne

30: Malatya'nın Eline Serin Dediler

As if you needed to be told again, this song reminds you not to believe everything people tell you about Malatya, or what your love is doing.

31: Antalya’ nın Mor Üzümü

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tihNWKjwwGA

32: Çıldır'ın Çiçekleri

Çıldır'ın Çiçekleri (Balam)
Eli De Amalı Gızlar
Bulak Da Göyçekleri (Balam)
Yandım Cilveli Gızlar

Çıldır'ın Çiçekleri (Balam)
Bulak Da Göyçekleri
Yel Vurdu Da Düşürdü (Balam)
Başında Leçekleri 

33: Arpacay Asti Dasti

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX9zK4LbEJI

34: Salonica

35: Spava Mi Se

Spava Mi Se features a son threatening to run away to Dobruja if his mother does not promise him the girl with the hair::text like peacock feathers.

36: Oj Ti Mome Ohrigance

A love song from Ohrid by Brenna Macrimmon

37: Baku, Tabriz, Ankara

This catchy, pan-Turkist anthem has not just one city but three in its title. 

38: 442 do Beograda

Bajaga's song perfectly captures that feeling of being from Belgrade and dating a woman in Zagreb, 442 kilometers away.

39: Zagreb, Zagreb

A stirring tribute to Zagreb, and one that kind of makes it sound::text like it's in Italy,

40: Calin Davullari

Calin Davullari - a turku about dying in Salonica

41: Jovano Jovanka

If Otis Reading had been sitting on the banks of the Vardar, i think this is the song that would have resulted

42: Kopacka

Dimna Juda built (a palace) on the Vlajina Mountain.

She pounded in the building stakes with the bachelors she enslaved.

And the story was told that the girls were for marrying.

43: Raspukala Šar Planina

They say the best songs are about women mourning for dead shepards:

44: Ivanica

As patriotic Macedonian songs go this has little on Bisi Balkanski

45: Jove Malaj Mome

The lads from Sophia, with their fair mustaches

46: Katerino Mome

47: Nazad Nazad

Nazad, nazad, mome Kalino,

Ne odi podir mene,

// che pred nazi ima gora visoka

ne k'e mozhesh da ja preminesh

48: More Sokol Pie

Violence and death on the banks of the Vardar

49: Sto Me E Milo

50: Karavana Chajka

51: Niška Banja

52: Iste Hendek

53: Ince Mehmet

54: Pote tha kanei xasteria

55: Placemark 54

56: Ta Kavourakia

The little crab

57: Thessalikos Kiklos