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The Frontiers of the Ottoman World

A.C.S. Peacock

Abstract

This is the first major comparative study of the frontiers of the Ottoman Empire, one of the crucial forces that shaped the modern world. The chapters combine archaeological and historical approaches to the further understanding of how this major empire approached the challenge of controlling frontiers as diverse and far-flung as Central and Eastern Europe, Anatolia, Iraq, Arabia and the Sudan. Ranging across the 15th to early 20th centuries, chapters cover frontier fortifications, administration, society and economy and shed light on the Ottomans' interaction with their neighbours, both Musli ... More

Keywords: Ottoman Empire, frontiers, Muslim, Christian, trade, Ottoman archaeology, Anatolia, Iraq, Arabia, Sudan

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2009 Print ISBN-13: 9780197264423
Published to British Academy Scholarship Online: January 2012 DOI:10.5871/bacad/9780197264423.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

A.C.S. Peacock, editor
Assistant Director, British Institute at Ankara

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

A Note on Transliteration, Place Names and the Organisation of this Volume

Abbreviations

1 Introduction: The Ottoman Empire and its Frontiers

A. C. S. PEACOCK

Part I Frontier Fortifications

2 The Fortress: Defining and Mapping the Ottoman Frontier in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

PALMIRA BRUMMETT

3 Where Environmental and Frontier Studies Meet: Rivers, Forests, Marshes and Forts along the Ottoman–Hapsburg Frontier in Hungary

GÁBOR ÁGOSTON

4 The Ottoman Conquest of Arabia and the Syrian Hajj Route

ANDREW PETERSEN

5 ‘Aqaba Castle in the Ottoman Period, 1517–1917

DENYS PRINGLE

6 Evliya Çelebi, the Mani and the Fortress of Kelefa

MALCOLM WAGSTAFF

7 The Ottoman Northern Black Sea Frontier at Akkerman Fortress: The View from a Historical and Archaeological Project

VICTOR OSTAPCHUK, and SVITLANA BILYAYEVA

8 Palanka Forts and Construction Activity in the Late Ottoman Balkans

BURCU ÖZGÜVEN

9 Understanding Archaeology and Architecture through Archival Records: The Restoration Project of the Ottoman Fortress of Seddülbahir on the Gallipoli Peninsula of Turkey

LUCIENNE THYS-ŞENOCAK, RAHMI NURHAN ÇELİK, ARZU ÖZSAVAŞÇI, and GÜLSÜN TANYELİ

Part II The Administration of the Frontier

10 Administration and Fortification in the Van Region under Ottoman Rule in the Sixteenth Century

TOM SINCLAIR

11 Ottoman Frontier Policies in North-East Africa, 1517–1914

JOHN ALEXANDER

12 Continuities in Ottoman Centre–Periphery Relations, 1787–1915

FREDERICK ANSCOMBE

13 Ottoman Attempts to Control the Adriatic Frontier in the Napoleonic Wars

KAHRAMAN ŞAKUL

14 Challenges of a Frontier Region: The Case of Ottoman Iraq in the Nineteenth Century

GÖKHAN ÇETİNSAYA

15 The Frontier as a Measure of Modern Power: Local Limits to Empire in Yemen, 1872–1914

ISA BLUMI

Part III Frontier Society: Rulers, Ruled and Revolt

16 Razing Gevele and Fortifying Konya: The Beginning of the Ottoman Conquest of the Karamanid Principality in South-Central Anatolia, 1468

SARA NUR YILDIZ

17 Between Hinterland and Frontier: Ottoman Vidin, Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

ROSSITSA GRADEVA

18 The Garrison and its Hinterland in the Ottoman East, 1578–1605

RHOADS MURPHEY

19 Ottoman Archaeology of the Middle Nile Valley in the Sudan

INTISAR ELZEIN

20 Garrisons and the Local Population in Ottoman Hungary: The Testimony of the Archaeological Finds

IBOLYA GERELYES

21 The Krajina Project: Exploring the Ottoman–Hapsburg Borderland

RICHARD CARLTON, and ALAN RUSHWORTH

22 War without Frontiers: The Archaeology of the Arab Revolt, 1916–18

NEIL FAULKNER, and NICHOLAS J. SAUNDERS

Part IV The Economy of the Frontier

23 Military Service and Material Gain on the Ottoman–Hapsburg Frontier

MARK STEIN

24 Ottoman Suakin 1541–1865: Lost and Found

MICHAEL MALLINSON, LAURENCE SMITH, COLIN BREEN, WES FORSYTHE, and JACKE PHILLIPS

25 A Frontier without Archaeology? The Ottoman Maritime Frontier in the Western Mediterranean, 1660–1760

COLIN HEYWOOD

26 The Archaeology and History of Slavery in South Sudan in the Nineteenth Century

PAUL LANE, and DOUGLAS JOHNSON

27 Afterword

CAROLINE FINKEL

End Matter

Glossary

Ottoman Sultans

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Index