This article examines three provincial intermediaries in Cyprus during the closing decades of the eighteenth century. It considers these cases as examples of some of the groups of Ottoman subjects who came to benefit in ...

Still, geography mattered. Even in the absence of spatial visualization techniques to orient the imagination, and a modern state apparatus to condition the citizens into a collective identity that is territorially bound, ...

This paper will therefore examine how the author inscribes his place in Ottoman society as he describes his long journey and adventures from the eastern Anatolian frontier west to the Rumeli frontier as an itinerant Ottoman ...

The Portuguese conquered Ceuta in 1415 and retained control of the city until 1580 when Philip II of Spain claimed all Portuguese lands. When Piri Reis presented his Kitab-ı Bahriye to Süleyman in 1526 he used the term ...

In the eighteenth century the embassies and trading houses of France, England, Venice, and other European powers shared space on the steep hills of Galata and Pera, separated only by the waters of the Golden Horn from ...

Before examining Ahmed Vâsıf ’s philosophy of history, it will be useful to say a word about his life and work.4 Born in Baghdad in the 1730s, Vâsıf entered state service around the year 1768 and began a career of no small ...

The current paper will deal with an intellectual who became famous in Ottoman cultural history as the founder of the first Ottoman-Turkish printing house (1726). He was a Hungarian-born Protestant (allegedly Unitarian), ...

The relationship between the Ottoman state and the fifteenth century Ottoman historians require more attention than it has received to date. The evidence suggests that where the interests of the state and political individuals ...

The single specimen I propose to dissect was a man whose lifetime spanned the second half of the eighteenth century, and the first quarter of the nineteenth. He was born in Aleppo in 1172 of the hijri calendar (i.e. 1758 ...

Takririn kimin tarafından kaleme alındığına dair kesin bir bilgi yoktur. Zira takrirde bu hususta herhangi bir isim zikredilmez. Bununla birlikte müellifin kimliği ve hayatıyla ilgili esas kaynağımız da yine takririn ...