Women and the Transfer of Knowledge in the Black Sea Region
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Bitrakova-Grozdanova was born in 1939 in Ohrid, where she finished the high school (1958). She received her higher education at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, Department of Archeology (1962), where she also completed her Master’s Degree (1972) and received her PhD (1984) with the
Blaga Eleksova was born in 1922 in Tetovo, and finished high school in Skopje. In 1950 she obtained the high education (Art History) at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Skopje, and in 1958 her PhD at the University of Ljubljana, in the
Leman Ergench was born in Harmanli on 28th of November 1937. She graduated primary school in her native town. In 1955 she graduated with honors from Turkish Pedagogical School ‘Valko Chervenkov’ in Sofia. At the same year after a competition she won a scholarship to
Zeynep Zafer (Zeynep Ibrahimova) was born in 1958 in the village of Kornitsa (Bulgaria). When she was 15 years old she witnessed a bloody violence act caused by the attempts of the the communist regime to assimilate by force the Pomaks (Bulgarian speaking Muslims). During
She was born in 1862 in Istanbul. Topuz could not receive any formal education but she managed to educate herself by eagerly listening private lessons that her older brother taught. When she was 17, she married to Faik Bey and had 4 daughters from him.
She was born in 1902 in Skopje. She is the first woman chemist in Turkey. Her studies were interrupted during the hard times of WWI, but she managed to enroll Istanbul University where she started to teach classes such as mathematics and geometry. She enrolled
She was born in 1891. She holds the title of being the first female medical doctor in Turkey. Graduating from American Girls College in 1916, she decided to become a medical doctor. Back then, the Faculty of Medicine in Istanbul did not accept any female
She was born in İzmir, 1926. Finishing Ankara Girls High School, she enrolled to the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy at Istanbul University. She then started to work as an assistant at University of Ankara and then completed her PhD on Astrophysics in 1953. She
She was born in 1914 in Bursa, Turkey. In 1936, she got enrolled in to Ankara University Faculty of Language, History and Geography. In the faculty, she took classes like Language and Culture of Hittite; Sumerian and Acadian Languages and Mesopotamian Culture. After graduating in
She was born in Ankara in 1944. She finished her secondary education in Ankara Girls’ High School. Between the years of 1961-1963, she learned French in Paris and got enrolled in Law Faculty, but then continued her studies in Lausanne Switzerland on Political Science. Until