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"The Big House", Bornova, Turkey

In Bournabat (now Bornova), just NE of Smyrna (now Izmir), Turkey.

The Big House, Bornova (now The Rektörlük).
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"The Big House" was originally an 18th cent. convent (or "monastery"),
Gertrude Bell in 1902 says the garden is "200 years old",
purchased by the European Whittall family early 19th cent (pre-1833), Whittall family home for generations,
Charlton Whittall entertained King Otho of Greece there 1833,
he entertained the Ottoman Sultan there 1863,
later the residence of James Whittall,
then of Herbert Whittall, Gertrude Bell visited him there 1902,
Herbert Whittall supported the Greeks, he entertained Prince Andrew of Greece there in 1921,
sold to Giraud family when Herbert Whittall fled Turkey 1922,
Norman Giraud living there in 1927 and 1932,
it seems they had left by 1936.

The Big House is now the Rektörlük or Rektörlügü (the rectorate), the official headquarters of the Rektör, or Chancellor, of Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.
See [Kalcas, 1983].

The Big House, Bornova (now The Rektörlük).
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