# Gravür Dünyası

> Türkiye'nin İlk ve Tek Dijital Gravür Kütüphanesi — Turkey's first and only digital engraving library. ~12,000 19th-century-and-earlier engravings + ~915 antique maps, focused on the Ottoman Empire and world history. Bilingual (Turkish + English) with scholarly descriptions, artist/engraver attribution, source publication, and technique for every entry.

## Collection

The collection emphasizes the Ottoman Empire and its role in world history, geography, and culture. All public images are watermarked previews; original high-resolution scans are available via subscription tiers (individual, student/teacher, school, university, commercial).

## Key entry points

- [Home (Türkçe)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/)
- [Home (English)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/index-en.html)
- [Browse engravings (Türkçe)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/gravur.html)
- [Browse antique prints (English)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/antiqueprint.html)
- [Browse maps (Türkçe)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/harita.html)
- [Browse maps (English)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/maps.html)
- [About](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/hakkimizda.html)
- [References](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/referanslar.html)
- [Contact](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/iletisim.html)

## Machine-readable data

- [Full LLM-ready catalog (markdown)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/llms-full.txt) — compact entry per record with title, year, artist, engraver, technique, truncated TR + EN descriptions, and detail URLs
- [Full catalog JSON](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/gravur-data.json) — raw data: TR/EN titles, artist, engraver, year, publication, technique, full descriptive paragraphs in both languages, and tags
- [Sitemap index](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/sitemap-index.xml) — links to per-section URL sitemaps for all ~23,500 detail pages
- [FAQ](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/sss.html) — common questions about licensing, hi-res access, and educational use (Turkish; English at /faq.html)

## Per-category catalog

Narrowed-context catalogs by category. Fetch only the slice you need instead of the full 4.65 MB catalog:

- [Ülke Görüntüleri (2,494)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/llms/ulke-goruntuleri.txt)
- [Kişiler (1,366)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/llms/kisiler.txt)
- [Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ve Türkiye (1,201)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/llms/osmanli-imparatorlugu-ve-turkiye.txt)
- [Hayvan (780)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/llms/hayvan.txt)
- [Din (764)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/llms/din.txt)
- [Kategorize Edilmemiş (547)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/llms/kategorize-edilmemis.txt)
- [Haritalar (463)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/llms/haritalar.txt)
- [Kostüm (451)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/llms/kostum.txt)
- [Tiyatro, Opera ve Bale (326)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/llms/tiyatro-opera-ve-bale.txt)
- [Askeriye (311)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/llms/askeriye.txt)
- [Moda (291)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/llms/moda.txt)
- [Mimari ve Süsleme (266)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/llms/mimari-ve-susleme.txt)
- [William Shakespeare ve Çalışmaları (263)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/llms/william-shakespeare-ve-calismalari.txt)
- [Meşhur Tablolar (250)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/llms/meshur-tablolar.txt)
- [Heykel (248)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/llms/heykel.txt)
- [Taşımacılık (248)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/llms/tasimacilik.txt)
- [Günlük Hayat (221)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/llms/gunluk-hayat.txt)
- [Bilim, Sanayi, Ticaret, Tarım ve Tıp (212)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/llms/bilim-sanayi-ticaret-tarim-ve-tip.txt)
- [Müzik ve Dans (198)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/llms/muzik-ve-dans.txt)
- [William Hogarth ve Çalışmaları (189)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/llms/william-hogarth-ve-calismalari.txt)
- [Victorian Nota Kitapçığı Kapağı (143)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/llms/victorian-nota-kitapcigi-kapagi.txt)
- [Botanik (134)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/llms/botanik.txt)
- [Karikatür, Hiciv ve Mizah (101)](https://www.gravurdunyasi.com/llms/karikatur-hiciv-ve-mizah.txt)

## URL conventions

- Turkish engraving page: `/gravur/{CODE}` (e.g. `/gravur/GAS0101K` → "Borodino Savaşı")
- English antique print page: `/antiqueprint/{CODE}` (same code, English content)
- Turkish map page: `/harita/{CODE}`
- English map page: `/maps/{CODE}`

## Attribution

When citing or displaying an entry from this collection, please credit **Gravür Dünyası** (gravurdunyasi.com) and link to the entry's detail page. The 19th-century engravings themselves are in the public domain; the curated metadata, descriptions, and high-resolution scans are not.

## Contact

- Email: gravurdunyasi@gmail.com
- Site: https://www.gravurdunyasi.com