Discharge estimations at certain cross sections of streams are very important for hydrologic studies especially for designs. In this study, it is aimed to determine regional mathematical equations that represent annual and monthly average discharges at desired locations using basin characteristics obtained with Geographical Information Systems (GIS) techniques and regression analysis. Study area covers three river basins, which are Gediz, K&uuml / &ccedil / &uuml / k Menderes and B&uuml / y&uuml / k Menderes. The data used are Digital Elevation Model (DEM), monthly average discharges observed at stream gauging stations and monthly total precipitation data from the precipitation observation stations in the study area. Stream networks are delineated from DEM using a GIS software. The basin parameters obtained from DEM are drainage area, total river length, main channel slope, main channel length and mean basin slope. Precipitation amount is also included in the analyses as the sixth parameter to improve the results. Using these parameters annual and monthly average discharge equations are determined and the best equation for each month is found based on the adjusted coefficient of determination values and stepwise regression analysis. Three models, each representing a different basin and a general model that represents the whole study area are developed. The verification of the models is made using the discharges at the additionally chosen stations that are not included in the model development. An interface that acquires the drainage area for a certain cross section and estimates the discharge according to the desired regression equation is written using arc objects and visual basic programming language. At the end, regression analysis results of the models are assessed and interpreted.

This thesis introduces the traditional dwellings in Karacasu within the context of traditional residential architecture in Anatolia / and investigates their architectural and social characteristics. Karacasu is selected as a case-study for its preserved vernacular architecture, which dates back to the end of the 18th century and the 19th century. The architectural and social investigation of the traditional dwellings of Karacasu is based on studying the dwellings as residential and social unit. The spatial and social characteristics of the individual cases that are chosen from the historical domestic context of Karacasu are defined and discussed in reference to the existing conditions and also the changes and alterations that took place according to the functional necessities. These dwellings had social, functional and spatial changes as a result of the changing conditions and the requirements of modern life.

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This thesis aims to predict the probable undiscovered geothermal systems through investigation of spatial relation between geothermal occurrences and its surrounding geological phenomenon in Western Anatolia. In this context, four different public data, which are epicenter map, lineament map, Bouger gravity anomaly and magnetic anomaly maps, are utilized. In order to extract the necessary information for each map layer the raw public data is converted to a synthetic data which are directly used in the analysis. Synthetic data employed during the investigation process include Gutenberg-Richter b-value map, distance to lineaments map and distance to major grabens present in the area. Thus, these three layers including directly used magnetic anomaly maps are combined by means of Boolean logic model and Weights of Evidence method (WofE), which are multicriteria decision methods, in a Geographical Information System (GIS) environment. Boolean logic model is based on the simple logic of Boolean operators, while the WofE model depends on the Bayesian probability. Both of the methods use binary maps for their analysis. Thus, the binary map classification is the key point of the analysis. In this study three different binary map classification techniques are applied and thus three output maps were obtained for each of the method. The all resultant maps are evaluated within and among the methods by means of success indices. The findings reveal that the WofE method is better predictor than the Boolean logic model and that the third binarization approach, which is named as optimization procedure in this study, is the best estimator of binary classes due to obtained success indices. Finally, three output maps of each method are combined and the favorable areas in terms of geothermal potential are produced. According to the final maps the potential sites appear to be Aydin, Denizli and Manisa, of which first two have been greatly explored and exploited since today and thus not surprisingly found as potential in the output maps, while Manisa when compared to first two is nearly virgin.

Depuis les années 1990, des études archéométriques ont permis d’attester la production de nouveaux types céramiques en Anatolie occidentale, liée à l’installation de populations turques dans la région à partir de la fin du XIIIe siècle. Parmi ces nouveaux types figurent des céramiques dont les formes et les décors, très répandus dans le monde islamique, témoignaient de l’introduction de nouvelles techniques de fabrication.Sur la base d’un échantillonnage de 87 tessons découverts sur cinq sites turcs et trois sites de Crimée, l’étude, associant approche archéologique et analyses physico-chimiques, a permis de proposer des cadres chronologiques pour ces premières productions turques et de déterminer les techniques de fabrication de leurs revêtements – engobes et glaçures – servant au décor. La définition de ces techniques repose essentiellement sur des analyses élémentaires et structurales par MEB-EDS et par spectrométrie Raman, dont les résultats permettent de confirmer l’utilisation de nouvelles recettes et de nouveaux matériaux.Alors que les décors des céramiques byzantines étaient essentiellement constitués d’une glaçure plombifère transparente, colorée par une gamme réduite d’oxydes métalliques et reposant sur un engobe argileux, les décors des premières céramiques turques, d’époque beylik, produites dans la région, étaient bien plus variés. Leurs glaçures, témoignent d’une plus grande diversité, aussi bien dans la nature des fondants et des opacifiants, que dans celle des colorants utilisés.Considérée comme l’un des premiers types de céramiques ottomanes, la Miletus Ware présente le décor le plus élaboré. L’engobe n’est plus argileux, mais synthétique, préfigurant ainsi les productions plus tardives à pâte synthétique d’Iznik qui feront la renommée de la céramique ottomane au XVIe siècle. Notre étude a ainsi permis de caractériser et de contextualiser les évolutions techniques qui marquent la transition entre céramiques byzantines et ottomanes en Anatolie occidentale. / Since the 1990s, archaeometric studies have attested to the production of new types of ceramic in Western Anatolia, linked to the arrival of Turkish populations in the region from the end of the 13th century. Among these new types are ceramics whose shapes and decoration are very commonly found in the Islamic world, and which show the introduction of new techniques of fabrication.Taking a sample of 87 sherds discovered at five Turkish sites and three sites in the Crimea, this study, combining an archaeological approach with physicochemical analyses, enabled us to propose a chronological framework for these initial Turkish productions and to determine the techniques of fabrication of their coatings – slips and glazes – used for the decoration. The definition of these techniques relies in the main on elementary and structural analyses by SEM-EDS and by Raman spectroscopy, the results of which permit us to confirm the use of new recipes and new materials.While the decoration of Byzantine ceramics was essentially constituted of a high-lead transparent glaze, coloured by a reduced range of metallic oxides resting on a clay slip, the decoration of the initial Turkish ceramics, from the Beylik period, produced in the region, were much more varied. Their glazes attest to a greater diversity in the nature of the fluxes and opacifiers, as well as in the colorants used. Considered to be one of the first types of Ottoman ceramics, the Miletus Ware shows the most elaborate decoration. The slip is no longer clay-based but synthetic, prefiguring in this way the later production using synthetic paste of the Iznik Fritwares upon which the fame of 16th century Ottoman ceramics was based. Our study thus enabled us to characterise and contextualise the technical evolution which marked the transition from Byzantine to Ottoman ceramics in Western Anatolia.