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The border regions shared by Poland-Lithuania and the Ottoman Empire were a tumultuous zone – a patchwork of regions directly administered by Warsaw and Istanbul, or through client rulers and vassals in Crimea, Moldavia, and Wallachia. Mariusz Kaczka's work on the anatomy of diplomacy in this region, particularly after the treaty of Karlowitz at the turn of the 18th century, breathes new life into the study of this dynamic frontier.
Mariusz Kaczka is a PhD student of history at the European University Institute in Florence.
Michael Połczyński is a PhD candidate at Georgetown University working on early modern Ottoman frontiers in Europe.
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1. Władysław Konopczyński, Polska a Turcja: 1683-1792, Kraków/Warszawa 2013. (first published 1936. Even though Konopczyński didn’t work on Ottoman history extensively and didn’t have access to Ottoman sources, his book remains the most important work on 18th century Polish-Ottoman relations) –M.K.
2. Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, Ottoman-Polish Diplomatic Relations, 15th-18th c. An Annotated Edition of ‘Ahdnames and other Documents, Leiden 2000.
3. Akdes Nimet Kurat, İsveç kıralı XII Karl’in Türkiyede kalışı ve bu siralanda Osmanlı imperatoroğlu, Ankara 1943.(looks at the fascinating story of the stay of Charles XII of Sweden on Ottoman soil [1709-1714], but it is also a kind of introduction to the structure of the Ottoman state in Europe after the Treaty of Karlowitz. Possessed by this topic, Kurat collected for several years sources mostly in Ottoman Turkish, French, English, German and Swedish, but he mastered Polish and Russian as well.) –M.K.
4. Mariusz W. Kaczka, “Frontier Courts, Frontier Trade and Everyday Life on the Polish-Moldavian-Ottoman-Tatar Borderland. Unpublished 18th Century Correspondences of the Moldavian Prince Mihai Racoviţă”, in: Anuarul Institutului de Istorie „A. D. Xenopol”, Bucureşti, vol. 51 (2014).
| | | Part of the map entitled „Grundriss der türkischen Festung Bender”, ca. 1709-1713. Conquered by Suleiman the Magnificent in 1538, the city of Bender, situated on the right bank of the Dniester was one of the main Ottoman fortresses in the eyalet of Silistra. The Swedish king Charles XII (called by the Ottomans Demir-bash, “Iron Head”) found shelter on Ottoman soil near the forests of Bender after he lost Battle of Poltava (8th July1709). In the bend of the Dniester river (described on this map in French as: “Camp du Roi de Suede”) he created a camp protected from the north by the Ottoman fortress and from the north east by Ottoman troops. Courtesy of the Krigsarkivet in Stockholm (location: Sveriges krig, 12:114). |
| | | Map of the Polish-Lithuanian Palatinate of Podolia bordering the Ottoman Empire by Guillaume le Vasseur de Beauplan (1652). In the middle of the image, on the Ottoman side is the city of Chotczyn (Polish: Chocim, Turkish and Romanian: Hotin), where an Ottoman seraskerresided from 1713 onwards. This fact and the repairs of Hotin walls undertaken by the Ottomans gave the Polish-Lithuanian officials a reason for constant complaint at the Porte throughout the 1720s, 1730s and 1740s. In fact the Ottoman fortress of Hotin was directed and used rather against Muscovite Russia and Austria than Poland-Lithuania. In times of war it was a rally point for Ottoman forces as well as a suitable storage place for war supplies (mostly grain), which were very often acquired in Poland-Lithuania. Most of the Hotin seraskers such as the long-standing Abdi Pasha (1713-1714, December 1718-November 1722) or Kolçak Ilyas Pasha (actually a Moldavian mercanery Iliaş Colceag; 1732-1739) were friendly towards Polish-Lithuanian nobles. Courtesy of Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague. |
| | | Part of the map entitled „Abrys wie der königliche Majestät von Schweden bey Bender von Türken und Tataren den 1 Feb. dieses Jahres [12 II 1713] attaquiret waret“, 1713. Charles XII built a “winter palace” for himself (on the picture), stables and even a chancellery (all surrounded by a stone wall) in his camp and ruled his country from Ottoman soil. After he declined to leave Bender the Ottomans lost their patience and he was attacked in his camp on 12th February 1713. Defeated and humiliated he was moved to the small city of Demiotica (Tur. Dimetoka, Grec. Didymóteicho) near Edirne, where he was kept separated from the world. In October 1714 he left the Ottoman Empire in disguise. Courtesy of the Krigsarkivet in Stockholm (location: Sveriges krig, 12:125). |
| | | Part of the map of Pokucie by Guillaume le Vasseur de Beauplan (1652) showing the Moldavian-Ottoman-Polish frontier near the Polish-Lithuanian city of Śniatyń (Ukrainian: Snjatyn), where Ottoman-Polish mobile markets often took place. Courtesy of Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague. |
How did one of Christendom’s largest legally protected, integrated Muslim communities present their history to the most powerful contemporary leader of the Islamic world, Süleyman the Magnificent? The Risâle-i Tatar-i Leh, was written in 1558 by three Polish-Lithuanian Muslims on hajj with the help of Ottoman ulema. The Risâle contains a rare hybrid Polish-Lithuanian Muslim/Ottoman courtly narrative addressing the problem of conflict between fellow-Muslims, Polish-Lithuanian Muslims as a branch of the greater Islamic ecumene, the legal status and social hierarchies of Muslims in an emerging early modern republic, and the role of the Ottoman Sultan as facilitator of the hajjand as the millenarian world-conqueror vis-à-vis Muslims living outside of the Islamic world.
Michael Połczyński is a PhD candidate studying early modern Ottoman and European history at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)
Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)
Paulina Dominik is a graduate of Oxford University and a fellow at the German Orient-Institut in Istanbul (see academia.edu)
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY1. Danecki, Janusz, “Literature of the Polish Tatars” in: Górak-Sosnowska, Katarzyna (ed.) 2001. Muslims in Poland and East Europe: widening the European discourse on Islam. [Warsaw: Zakład] 2. Fleischer, Cornell. 1992 “The Lawgiver as Messiah: The Making of the Imperial Image in the Reign of Süleyman” in: Soliman le Magnifique et Son Temps, ed. G. Veinstein [Paris: La Documentation Française] 3. Klein, Denise. 2012. The Crimean Khanate between East and West (15th-18th century). [Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz] 4. Kopański, Ataullah Bogdan, “Muslim Communities of the European North-Eastern Frontiers: Islam in they Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth”, in, Marcinkowski, Christoph [ed.] 2009. The Islamic World and the West: Managing Religious and Cultural Identities in the age of globalization. [Zürich: Lit.] 5. Muchliński, Antoni. 1858. Zdanie Sprawy o Tatarach Litewskich przez Jednego z Tych Tataròw Złożone Sułtanow Sulejmanowi w Roku 1558. [Vilnius: Teka Wileńska]
| | | The Battle of Orsha (1514), Hans Krell. A rare depiction of Lipka Tatars in a battle between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Muscovy. The turbaned figure is thought to be the commander |
In the early modern Ottoman/European frontier, empires reinforced rivaling claims to sovereignty through systems of personal patronage and coercive power. Local power holders experienced Ottoman suzerainty quite differently in the predominantly Christian vassal polities of Walachia and Moldavia. Join Michał Wasiucionek in The Wild Field as he explores these unique systems of patronage.Michał Wasiucionek is a Doctoral student at European University Institute working on the history of the Danubian principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia during the seventeenth century . (see academia.edu)
Michael Połczyński is a Doctoral candidate at Georgetown University working on early modern Ottoman frontiers in Europe. (see academia.edu)
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1. Kármán, Gábor. 2013. "The network of a Wallachian pretender in Constantinople: the contacts of the future voivode Mihail Radu 1654-1657." In Europe and the 'Ottoman world': Exachanges and conflicts (sixteenth to seventeenth centuries),edited by Gábor Kármán and Radu G. Păun. Istanbul: Isis Press.
2. Matei, Ion. 2008. Reprezentantii diplomatici (capuchehăi) al Tării Românești la Poarta otomană. Ed. Nagy Pienaru and Tudor Teotoi. Bucharest: Editura Academiei Române.
3. Panaite, Viorel. 2013. Război, pace și comert în Islam. Tările române și dreptul otoman al popoarelor. 2nd ed. Iași: Polirom.
4. Păun, Radu, "Enemies Within: Networks of Influence and the Military Revolts against the Ottoman Power (Moldavia and Wallachia, Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries)." In The European Tributary States of the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries, editat de Gábor Karman and Lovro Kunčević, Leiden: Brill.
| | | John Sigismund of Hungary pays homage to Kanuni Sultan Süleyman, 1556.(placard in Taksim Metro station, Istanbul 2014) |
| | | Michał Wasiucionek and Michał (Michael) Połczyńskion location at the German Orient-Institut, Istanbul |
The latest Ottoman History Podcast/The Wild Field joint venture: If geography is the stage for social activity, how do geographical settings impact the form of the human drama? In this episode, we discuss wide expanses such as seas, plains, and deserts along with their adjacent coasts or "littorals" in an attempt to identify parallels between different types of geographic zones and what they mean for the study of comparative and global history.Arianne Urus is a doctoral candidate at New York University studying environmental history and international order in early modern Europe and the Atlantic world. (see academia.edu)Michael Połczyński is a Doctoral candidate at Georgetown University working on early modern Ottoman frontiers in Europe. (seeacademia.edu) Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. (see academia.edu)
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY:Atlantic World1. David Armitage, The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800 (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.).
2. Lauren A. Benton, A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400--1900 (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
3. Alison Games, “Atlantic History: Definitions, Challenges, and Opportunities,” The American Historical Review 111, no. 3 (June 1, 2006): 741–57.
4. Michael Jarvis, In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783 (Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2010).
5. Peter Linebaugh and Rediker, Marcus, The Many-headed Hydra Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Boston: Beacon Press, 2000).
6. Renaud Morieux, Une Mer Pour Deux Royaumes: La Manche, Frontière Franco-anglaise XVIIe-XVIIIe Siècles (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2008).
7. Philip E. Steinberg, The Social Construction of the Ocean(Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Mediterranean 1. David Abulafia, The Great Sea: a Human History of the Mediterranean (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). 2. Bartolomé Bennassar, Les Chrétiens d’Allah : L’histoire Extraordinaire Des Renégats, XVIe et XVIIe Siècles (Paris: Perrin, 1989). 3. Eric Dursteler, Venetians in Constantinople Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). 4. Molly Greene, A Shared World : Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000). 5. Pearson, M. N. (Michael Naylor). 2006. "Littoral Society: The Concept and the Problems". Journal of World History. 17, no. 4: 353-373.
Eurasian Steppe1. Davies, Brian. 2007. Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe, 1500-1700. Warfare and History. London ;New York: Routledge. 2. Klein, Denise. 2012. The Crimean Khanate between East and West (15th-18th century). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 3. Kołodziejczyk, Dariusz. 2011. The Crimean Khanate and Poland-Lithuania international diplomacy on the European periphery (15th-18th century) : a study of peace treaties followed by annotated documents. Leiden: Brill. 4. McNeill, William Hardy. 1964. Europe's steppe frontier, 1500-1800. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 5. Sunderland, Willard. 2004. Taming the Wild Field: colonization and empire on the Russian steppe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
In our inaugural episode we briefly explore the significance of "The Wild Field", which is not only linked to geographical space, but also conceptual fields of study. THEWILDFIELD.COM offers podcasts exploring new research on the shared borderlands of Europe and Asia. Areas of study include the Black Sea, the Caucasus, the Pontic Steppe, East Central Europe, and Central Asia, broadly defined. Join us again for upcoming episodes on historical and current issues related to The Wild Field.
Michael Połczyński is a Doctoral candidate student studying early modern Ottoman and European history at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)
Chris Gratien is a PhD student studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)
Paulina Dominik is a graduate of Oxford University and a fellow at the German Orient-Institut in Istanbul (see academia.edu)
In the first half of the 19th century, the activities of country-less Polish revolutionaries and exiles, and the bureaucrats and reformers of the shrinking Ottoman Empire were joined through in a mutual concern regarding the expansion of Russia and the machinations of the Western Powers. This intersection of interests provided ample opportunity for the dynamic participation of a large Polish Émigré community in Ottoman affairs. After the tremendous efforts of both parties during the Crimean War, which had little positive outcome for either the Ottoman Empire or the thousands of Poles that fought in allied armies, we know little about what became of Polonia Ottomanica – or the Polish community in the Ottoman Empire. Join Paulina Dominik, a graduate of Oxford University and a fellow at the German Orient Institute in Istanbul, to discuss this lacuna, which persists within both Polish and Ottoman historiographies, and, in a broader sense the History of Turkish/European relations.
Michael Połczyński is a Doctoral candidate studying early modern Ottoman and European history at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)
Paulina Dominik is a graduate of Oxford University and a fellow at the German Orient-Institut in Istanbul (see academia.edu)
In the early 20th century, the twilight of empires led to an explosion of movement amongst the intelligentsia. Join Dr. Zaur Gasimov in an exploration of the "entangled intellectual" as a conceptual framework of study, and learn about 20th century connections between Poland, Turkey, Crimea, and Azerbaijan.
Zaur Gasimov is a Research Fellow at the German Orient-Institut in Istanbul (see academia.edu)
Paulina Dominik is a graduate of Oxford University and a fellow at the German Orient-Institut in Istanbul (see academia.edu)
Michael Połczyński is a Doctoral candidate at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)
Son haftalarda uluslararası basında sıkça yer bulan konuların başında Kırım gelmektdir. Tarih boyunca Kırım Hanlığı,Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ile Lehistan arasındaki ilişkilerde önemli rol oynamıştır. Dr. Hacer Topaktaş, iki devlet arasındaki diplomatik ilişkiler ve Kırım Hanlığı’nın uzun vadeli ortaklıklarına sağladığı katkıyı ele almaktadır.
Dr. Hacer Topaktaş is an assistant professor at Istanbul University (see academia.edu)
Paulina Dominik is a graduate of Oxford University and a fellow at the German Orient-Institut in Istanbul (see academia.edu)
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1. İnalcık, Halil. (2002). “Kırım Hanlığı”. DİA, C. XXV: 450-458.
2. İnalcık, Halil (1986). “Power Relationships Between Russia the Crimea and the Ottoman Empire As Reflected in Titulature”. Passé Turco-Tatar Présent Soviétique, ed. G. Veinstein, S. E. Wimbush: 175-211.
3. Kołodziejczyk, Dariusz (2011). The Crimean Khanate and Poland Lithuania, International Diplomacy on the European Periphery (15th-18th Century) A Study of Peace Treaties Followed by Annotated Documents. Leiden: Brill.
4. Spuler, Bartold (1986). “Kirim”. EI, V: 136-143.
5. Hacer Topaktaş (2014), "Osmanlı-Lehistan-Kırım Üçgeninde Diplomasi: Şah Mirza'nın Varşova Temsilciliği (1746-1747)", Bilig, sy. 68: 243-266.
This podcast is reblogged from our friends at Ottoman History Podcast (Ep. #48, 3 March 2012)
The early modern era was a period of tremendous fluidity in terms of borders of identities. In this podcast, we discuss the life and times of Sefer Muratowicz, an Armenian merchant born in Ottoman Anatolia during the late sixteenth century who settled in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and became an envoy to the Safavid Shah in Persia through his role as a merchant. Sefer left an account of his visit, which our guest Michael Polczynski has translated and analyzed. The account provides information about Sefer's journey as well as his diplomatic and mercantile activities, painting a picture in the process of some aspects of travel, diplomacy, and perhaps even espionage in borderlands regions during the early modern period.
Michael Połczyński is a PhD candidate at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)*
Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)
Fatih Çalışır is a PhD candidate at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)
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1. Aslanian, Sebouh David. 2011. From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: the global trade networks of Armenian merchants from New Julfa [Berkeley: University of California Press].
2. Nadel-Golobič, Eleonora. 1979. "Armenians and Jews in Medieval Lvov: Their Role in Oriental Trade, 1400-1600." Persee.
3. Niesiołowski, Kazimierz. 1743. Otia Publica Vix Domestica, [Vanities, Public and Domestic]. (Warsaw)
4. Połcyzński, Michael. 2014. “The Relacja of Sefer Muratowicz: 1601-1602 private royal envoy of Sigismund III to Shah ‘Abbas I”. The Turkish Historical Review, 5. [Leiden: Brill]
5. Rothman, Natalie. 2009. “Self-Fashioning in the Mediterranean Contact Zone: Giovanni Battista Salvago and his Africa Overo Barbaria (1625)” in, Renaissance Medievalisms, Eisenbichler, Konrad (ed.) [Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies]
6. Szuppe, Maria. 1986. “Un marchand du roi de Pologne en Perse, 1601-1602”, Moyen Orient et Océan Indien 3.
Turkic peoples have been living on and around the Crimean Peninsula and the Pontic Steppe (Deşt-i Kıpçak, Dzikie Pola, Loca Deserta) for over a millennium. As the Crimean peninsula changes hands before our eyes once again, we take a moment to reflect on the history and fate of its native inhabitants, the Crimean Tatars. Join Professor Hakan Kırımlıin The Wild Field in an exploration of Crimean Tatars’ self-identification and their historical relationships with neighboring Turkic peoples and the colonial power of Russia.
Professor Hakan Kırımlı of Bilkent University teaches Russian and Soviet history, with particular emphasis on the Black Sea region, and the Turkic peoples of the Crimea, Volga-Ural region, and the Caucasus.
Dr. Zaur Gasimov is Research fellow at the Orient Institut Istanbul (Max Weber Foundation). His field of research is Russian and East European intellectual history as well as Turkish-Russian Relations. (see academia.edu)
Michael Połczyński is a Doctoral candidate at Georgetown University working on early modern Ottoman frontiers in Europe. (see academia.edu)
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY:Kırımlı, Hakan. 1996. National movements and national identity among the Crimean Tatars, 1905-1916. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Ottoman imperial space was not always tied to permanent structures. For centuries tents functioned as mobile palaces, providing domestic space and ceremonial stage settings reinforcing the power of the Padishah. Considering the material remains of fabric imperial architecture opens new avenues for exploring and understanding Ottoman visual culture and architectural history. Beyond the Empire, Ottoman tents changed hands as war booty and spolia during conflicts with neighboring polities, which resulted in a rich afterlife for many of these objects. Join Ashley Dimmig in the Wild Field in her exploration of Ottoman tents.
Ashley Dimmig is a Doctoral student at the University of Michigan in the History of Art Department. Her work focuses on both Persian and Turkish early modern and modern visual culture, with special emphasis on textile arts.Michael Połczyński is a Doctoral candidate at Georgetown University working on early modern Ottoman frontiers in Europe.SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHYOttoman Tents1. Atasoy, Nurhan. Otağ-i Hümayun: Ottoman Imperial Tent Complex. Istanbul: Aygaz, 2000.
2. Atasoy Nurhan, "Ottoman Garden Pavilions and Tents." Muqarnas 21 (2004): 15-20.
3. Onuk, Taciser. Osmanlı Çadır Sanatı: XVII-XIX: Yüzyıl Ottoman Tent Art XVII-XIX Centuries. Ankara: T.C. Kültür Bakanlığı, 1998.
Tents (broadly)1. Andrews, Peter A. Felt Tents and Pavilions: The Nomadic Tradition and Its Interaction with Princely Tentage. London: Melisende, 1999.
2. Mansel, Philip. "Travelling Palace." Halı 39 (1988): 30-35.
3. O'Kane, Bernard. "Fron Tents to Pavilions: Royal Mobility and Persian Palace Design." Ars Orientalis 23 (1993): 249-268.
Late Ottoman Material and Visual Culture1. Hamadeh, Shirine. The City's Pleasures: Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008.
More on Ashley's Work:Dimmig, Ashley. "Fabricating a New Image: Imperial Tents in the Late Ottoman Period." International Journal of Islamic Architecture 3: 2 (2014), 341- 372.http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2701/Paper: "Sarmatism, Orientalism, and the Third Reich: The Afterlife of Ottoman Imperial Tents in Empire." Encounters with Islamic Art: Reception, Revival, and Response, University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), 1 February, 2014.https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhs2tMYJ4-YVqYTJImGtp-GfvTTUQ1zW9"Triumphal Tents: Ottoman Tents, European Trophies, and Remembering the Battle of Vienna." Stanbouline, 14 February, 2014.http://www.stambouline.com/2014/02/one-canopy-two-empires.html
| | | Single-columned tent, 19th century, appliqué and embroidery. Askeri Müzesi, Istanbul. (Author Photo)
| | | Single-columned tent, 19th century, appliqué and embroidery. Askeri Müzesi, Istanbul. (Author Photo)
| | | Marquee, formerly owned by Sultan Mahmud II (r.1808–39), 1224 AH / 1809 AD, appliqué and embroidery. Askeri Müzesi, Istanbul. (Author Photo)
| | | Marquee, formerly owned by Sultan Mahmud II (r.1808–39), 1224 AH / 1809 AD, appliqué and embroidery. Askeri Müzesi, Istanbul. (Author Photo)
| | | Tent walls as part of Sarmatism exhibition, probably late 18th century, appliqué. Regional Museum at Tarnów, Poland (Author Photo) |
| | | Single-columned tent and a children’s birthday party, ca. 17th century, appliqué. “War Against the Ottomans” permanent exhibition, Museum of Military History (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum), Vienna. (Author Photo) |
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This podcast is reblogged from our friends at Ottoman History Podcast (Ep. #46, 16 February 2012)Slavery, the practice of owning human beings, is a nearly universal historical phenomenon that reached its global peak during the eighteenth century and remains present to this day. However, slavery has taken many different forms in different regions: plantation slavery, domestic slavery, concubinage, military slavery and the like, often predicated on difference of religion or race. In this episode, we discuss slavery as practiced in different regions of the world from the Atlantic to the Middle East to the Black Sea in a comparative perspective.Elena Abbott is a Doctoral candidate at Georgetown University focusing on the history of the Atlantic during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesSoha El Achi is a PhD student studying slavery and French colonialism in North Africa at Georgetown UniversityMichael Połczyński is a Doctoral candidate studying Ottoman and European history at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)Chris Gratien is a PhD student studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)Click Here to see a SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
This podcast is reblogged from our friends at Ottoman History Podcast (Ep. #146, 19 February 2014)
Poland is not always remembered among the great imperial rivals of the Ottoman Empire such as Safavid Iran, the Habsburgs, and Muscovy within discussions of early modern European history. Yet, the longstanding and continuous interactions between the Polish and Ottoman worlds comprise an important component of the story of the European state system and its transformation. In this podcast, Michael Polczynski and Paulina Dominik offer an introduction to Ottoman-Polish relations and tell the stories of the first and last Polish embassies to the Ottoman Empire.
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iTunesMichael Połczyński is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the history of the Ottoman Empire and Eastern Europe (see academia.edu)
Paulina Dominik is a graduate of Oxford University's Department of Oriental Studies (see academia.edu)
Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East (see academia.edu)
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Polonia Ottomanica, a blog about historical interactions between the Ottoman and Polish worlds
This podcast is reblogged from our friends at Ottoman History Podcast, (Ep. #111, 28 June 2013)
Although it was not an Ottoman province, Crimea was politically, militarily, and economically critical to Ottoman power in Eastern Europe, and the suzerainty of the Giray dynasty that governed Crimea for over three centuries was ultimately what held off Russian expansion and made the Black Sea truly an "Ottoman lake." In this episode, Denise Klein discusses the role of the Crimean Khanate in the Ottoman world and gives us an overview of the history, society, and culture of this political space. Drawing on her own research, she also uses a comparison of Ottoman and Crimean historiography to examine how these vassals understood their place in the Ottoman equation and how writers on opposing sides of the Black Sea interpreted and represented events in different ways.
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Denise Klein is a doctoral candidate at the University of Konstanz, Germany focusing the history and historiography of Ottoman Crimea (see academia.edu)
Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)
Nir Shafir is a PhD candidate at UCLA studying Ottoman intellectual history (see academia.edu)
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OHP Reblog: Anadolu'ya Bir Göç Öyküsü
This podcast is reblogged from our friends at Ottoman History Podcast (Ep. #112, 4 July 2013)
Osmanlının 19. yy’da karşılaştığı en büyük sosyal ve politik meselelerden biri şüphesiz ki muhacir sorunudur. Rus devleti, eski Osmanlı toprakları olan Kafkasya ve Kırım’a yerleşmeye yönelik bir siyaseti benimseyip bölgedeyayıldıkça, yerli Müslüman nüfusa kaçmaktan başka bir çare kalmamıştı. Osmanlı, devlet nüfuzunun sınırlı olduğu seyrek nüfuslu bölgelere, yeni gelenleri yerleştirmek için yoğun çaba sarfetti. Ciddi sıkıntılara girerek, Anadolu ve Suriye boyunca sayısız muhacir yerleşimi kuruldu. Bu yerleşimlerin bir çoğu zamanın getirdiklerine dayanamadı ama Adana-Mersin bölgesinden bir örnek olan Atlılar köyünde Muhacirler kuşaklar boyunca varlıklarını sürdürebildiler. Bu bölümümüzde Mehtap Çelik, Atlılar Köyü ile ilgili yaptığı araştırmadan bahsetmektedir.
During the nineteenth century, one of the major social and political issues faced by the Ottoman Empire was Muslim immigration from the Russian sphere. As the Russian Empire expanded into Crimea and the Caucasus, hundreds of thousands of individuals flocked to the Ottoman lands. The Ottoman state sought to settle these newcomers in sparsely populated regions where state power was limited. Not without serious hardship, numerous settlements were founded throughout Anatolia and Syria. Many did not withstand the test of time, but in this episode, Mehtap Çelik tells the story of one such settlement, the Circassian village of Atlılar near Mersin (podcast is in Turkish).
MP3 FileMehtap Çelik Mersin Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü'nde ders vermektedir.
Harika Zöhre Mersin Üniversitesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Anabilim Dalı araştırma görevlisidir. (bkz. academia.edu)
Yakınçağ Orta Doğu Tarihi çalışan Chris Gratien Georgetown Üniversitesi'nde doktora yapmaktadır. (bkz. academia.edu)
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