This article concentrates on the relationship between the Ottoman Grand Admiral Uluc Hasan Pasha (Hasan Veneziano), a Venetian renegade, and the Venetian ambassadors (baili) in Istanbul. Based on documentation from Venetian ...

This essay aims to show how information was used as a political tool in sixteenth-century Istanbul. By concentrating on the “Mediterranean faction”, i.e. Muslim corsairs incorporated into the Ottoman imperial system, it ...

In this article, we argue that the voyage that Reinhold Lubenau, a visitor to the Ottoman Empire in 1587-1588, claimed to have made with the Ottoman navy across the Mediterranean is fictional. In the first part of the ...

The aim of this article is to discuss certain issues surrounding the Literature on Early Modern Coffeehouse Sociability. One issue that arises in this historiography is the need to go beyond the Habermasian paradigm in ...

Zeta bölgesi beyleri olarak önemli bir siyasi figür olan Crnojević ailesinin Osmanlılarla olan bağları, himaye ve hakimiyet süreçleri açısından tipik bir örnek teşkil etmektedir. Bu aile hakkında birçok araştırma mevcuttur, ...

This paper aims to review the so-called tripartite periodization of history that evolved into a key concept of historical studies in the early 18th th century in Europe with a special emphasis on its application to Ottoman ...

It was a generally accepted and, until recently, very dominant view in the literature that there was no tradition of autobiography in Ottoman society or that it was a feeble field. Lately, this issue has been returned to ...

Today, Lake Seyfe, located within the border of the Mucur district in the northeast of Kırşehir province, and the Seyfe village, located by this lake, are 16 km away from Mucur. The lake, which is known as the “bird ...