- 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 -
2 The Fortress: Defining and Mapping the Ottoman Frontier in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -
3 Where Environmental and Frontier Studies Meet: Rivers, Forests, Marshes and Forts along the Ottoman–Hapsburg Frontier in Hungary -
4 The Ottoman Conquest of Arabia and the Syrian Hajj Route -
5 ‘Aqaba Castle in the Ottoman Period, 1517–1917 -
6 Evliya Çelebi, the Mani and the Fortress of Kelefa -
7 The Ottoman Northern Black Sea Frontier at Akkerman Fortress: The View from a Historical and Archaeological Project -
8 Palanka Forts and Construction Activity in the Late Ottoman Balkans -
9 Understanding Archaeology and Architecture through Archival Records: The Restoration Project of the Ottoman Fortress of Seddülbahir on the Gallipoli Peninsula of Turkey -
10 Administration and Fortification in the Van Region under Ottoman Rule in the Sixteenth Century -
11 Ottoman Frontier Policies in North-East Africa, 1517–1914 -
12 Continuities in Ottoman Centre–Periphery Relations, 1787–1915 -
13 Ottoman Attempts to Control the Adriatic Frontier in the Napoleonic Wars -
14 Challenges of a Frontier Region: The Case of Ottoman Iraq in the Nineteenth Century -
15 The Frontier as a Measure of Modern Power: Local Limits to Empire in Yemen, 1872–1914 -
16 Razing Gevele and Fortifying Konya: The Beginning of the Ottoman Conquest of the Karamanid Principality in South-Central Anatolia, 1468 -
17 Between Hinterland and Frontier: Ottoman Vidin, Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries -
18 The Garrison and its Hinterland in the Ottoman East, 1578–1605 -
19 Ottoman Archaeology of the Middle Nile Valley in the Sudan -
20 Garrisons and the Local Population in Ottoman Hungary: The Testimony of the Archaeological Finds -
21 The Krajina Project: Exploring the Ottoman–Hapsburg Borderland -
22 War without Frontiers: The Archaeology of the Arab Revolt, 1916–18 -
23 Military Service and Material Gain on the Ottoman–Hapsburg Frontier -
24 Ottoman Suakin 1541–1865: Lost and Found -
25 A Frontier without Archaeology? The Ottoman Maritime Frontier in the Western Mediterranean, 1660–1760 -
26 The Archaeology and History of Slavery in South Sudan in the Nineteenth Century -
27 Afterword - Glossary
- Ottoman Sultans
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Between Hinterland and Frontier: Ottoman Vidin, Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Between Hinterland and Frontier: Ottoman Vidin, Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
- Chapter:
- (p.330) (p.331) 17 Between Hinterland and Frontier: Ottoman Vidin, Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
- Source:
- The Frontiers of the Ottoman World
- Author(s):
ROSSITSA GRADEVA
- Publisher:
- British Academy
This chapter examines how the frontier and the changing fate of the region influenced the military system as well as the provincial administration and agrarian regime. It focuses on Vidin in the period of the wars which made it a frontier outpost again, being either directly occupied (by the Holy League) or under immediate threat (in 1715–18). As in many other frontier areas, military activity affected relations between Muslims and Christians in the province and the town of Vidin. This chapter contributes to a better understanding of the complex impact of the wars during the expansion and contraction of the Ottoman state. The discussion is based mainly on documents from the series of kadi sicils, the records of the sharia court in the town, preserved from the last years of the seventeenth century onwards and kept in the Sofia National Library.
Keywords: Holy League, Vidin history, kadi sicils, Ottoman Vidin, Sofia National Library, Muslim-Christian conflict
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- 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 -
2 The Fortress: Defining and Mapping the Ottoman Frontier in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -
3 Where Environmental and Frontier Studies Meet: Rivers, Forests, Marshes and Forts along the Ottoman–Hapsburg Frontier in Hungary -
4 The Ottoman Conquest of Arabia and the Syrian Hajj Route -
5 ‘Aqaba Castle in the Ottoman Period, 1517–1917 -
6 Evliya Çelebi, the Mani and the Fortress of Kelefa -
7 The Ottoman Northern Black Sea Frontier at Akkerman Fortress: The View from a Historical and Archaeological Project -
8 Palanka Forts and Construction Activity in the Late Ottoman Balkans -
9 Understanding Archaeology and Architecture through Archival Records: The Restoration Project of the Ottoman Fortress of Seddülbahir on the Gallipoli Peninsula of Turkey -
10 Administration and Fortification in the Van Region under Ottoman Rule in the Sixteenth Century -
11 Ottoman Frontier Policies in North-East Africa, 1517–1914 -
12 Continuities in Ottoman Centre–Periphery Relations, 1787–1915 -
13 Ottoman Attempts to Control the Adriatic Frontier in the Napoleonic Wars -
14 Challenges of a Frontier Region: The Case of Ottoman Iraq in the Nineteenth Century -
15 The Frontier as a Measure of Modern Power: Local Limits to Empire in Yemen, 1872–1914 -
16 Razing Gevele and Fortifying Konya: The Beginning of the Ottoman Conquest of the Karamanid Principality in South-Central Anatolia, 1468 -
17 Between Hinterland and Frontier: Ottoman Vidin, Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries -
18 The Garrison and its Hinterland in the Ottoman East, 1578–1605 -
19 Ottoman Archaeology of the Middle Nile Valley in the Sudan -
20 Garrisons and the Local Population in Ottoman Hungary: The Testimony of the Archaeological Finds -
21 The Krajina Project: Exploring the Ottoman–Hapsburg Borderland -
22 War without Frontiers: The Archaeology of the Arab Revolt, 1916–18 -
23 Military Service and Material Gain on the Ottoman–Hapsburg Frontier -
24 Ottoman Suakin 1541–1865: Lost and Found -
25 A Frontier without Archaeology? The Ottoman Maritime Frontier in the Western Mediterranean, 1660–1760 -
26 The Archaeology and History of Slavery in South Sudan in the Nineteenth Century -
27 Afterword - Glossary
- Ottoman Sultans
- Select Bibliography
- Index
