Historical ·Early Modern ·Regional ·Europe

Sufi Lodges of the Ottoman Balkans

Tekke foundations and their ṭarīqa affiliations across the Ottoman European provinces.

388 records 1453–1912 CE 42.20° N · 21.47° E

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Fig. 1 Interactive distribution of the 388 geolocated records on a live carto-positron base · globe / flat projection · decimal degrees (WGS 84).

Abstract

A register of Sufi lodges (tekke / zaviye) in the Ottoman Balkan provinces, attributed by order and approximate foundation date. The mapping reveals corridors of devotional settlement along trade and military routes from Edirne into Bosnia.

Record

Theme	Historical — religious & historical geography
Region	Europe
Temporal range	1453–1912 CE
Geographic coverage	Regional
Records	388 geolocated entities
Data source	Wikidata + archival gazetteer
Centroid	42.20° N · 21.47° E
Last revised	Apr 2026

Provenance & sources

Compiled from a curated spreadsheet corpus (n = 388) and reconciled against Wikidata entities. Geographic coordinates were verified against published gazetteers prior to publication.

· accessed 2026-04-12

SPARQL query

SELECT ?item ?itemLabel ?coord ?inception WHERE { ?item wdt:P31 ?class . ?item wdt:P625 ?coord . OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P571 ?inception . } SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". } }

Recommended citation

Ortelius Editorial Board, ed. “Sufi Lodges of the Ottoman Balkans” [dataset]. Ortelius: A Research Atlas of Thematic Cartography, Study AT-021. 2026. doi:10.5281/ortelius.021

DATASET CC BY 4.0 · ENRICHMENT CC0 · CARTOGRAPHY MIT

Data & reproducibility

The published dataset is distributed as CSV with a derived GeoJSON edition; coordinates are decimal degrees on the WGS 84 datum. DOI 10.5281/ortelius.021.

↓ data.csv ↓ data.geojson