Kurumumuz üyelerinden değerli arkadaşımız, Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih - Coğrafya Fakültesi Prehistorya Kürsüsü Başkanı Prof. Dr. Kılıç Kökten'i 25 Temmuz 1974 günü kaybetmiş bulunuyoruz. Dil ve Tarih - Coğrafya Fakültesinin ilk öğrencilerinden olan, aynı fakültede asistanlıktan başlayarak Profesörlüğe kadar yükselen arkadaşımızın en büyük uğraşı alanı Türkiye mağaraları idi. Antalya'daki Karain Mağarası üzerinde yıllarca çalışmış, yepyeni buluntularla dünyaya tanıtmıştı. Anadolu'yu baştan başa, bazan katır sırtında, bazan yaya olarak dolaşan Kılıç Kökten, yüzlerce mağaranın yerini saptamıştı. Bu bakımdan yeri boş kalacaktır. Ailesine ve üyelerimize başsağlığı dileriz.

The five centuries, in which the Bulgarian lands were included within the frontiers of the Ottoman empire, left deep traces behind, some of which are stili visible today. Among these is the architectural heritage which has been tremendously rich. The vicessitudes of the extremely agitated history of the past hundred years caused the majority of the Ottoman monuments to disappear, but the number of those preserved is still considerable, and among them are works of the greatest quality which shed ample light on some important phases of the development of this architecture. Our knowledge of the Ottoman Turkish monuments of architecture in the Bulgarian lands is far from complete, partly due to the relatively late date in which Bulgarian science began to realise their value, partly of the difficulty to Western and Turkish scholars to travel the land extensively. A general work covering al! existing Ottoman-Turkish monuments in Bulgaria does not exist as yet and will take much pain-staking labour to produce. In this modest contribution we do not endeavour to give a full list of existing buildings nor wish to mentional all literature in Bulgarian, in Turkish or in other languages concerning these monuments but merely pick out a few important works of Early-Ottoman art which have remained largely unknown and unstudied until now.