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Book SynopsisTributaries and Peripheries of the Ottoman Empire offers thirteen studies on the relationship between Ottoman tributaries with each other in the imperial framework, as well as with neighboring border provinces of the empire’s core territories from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. A variety of surveys related to the Cossack Ukraine, the Crimean Khanate, Dagestan, Moldavia, Ragusa, Transylvania, Upper Hungary and Wallachia allow the reader to see hitherto less known subtleties of the Ottoman administration’s hierarchic structures and the liberties and restrictions of the office-holders’ power. They also shed light upon the strategies of coalition-building among the elites of the tributaries as well as the core provinces of the border zones, which determined their cooperation, but also the competition between them. Contributors include: János B. Szabó, Ovidiu Cristea, Tetiana Grygorieva, Klára Jakó, Gábor Kármán, Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska, Erica Mezzoli, Viorel Panaite, Radu G. Păun, Ruža Radoš Ćurić, Balázs Sudár, Michał Wasiucionek.
Table of Contents Acknowledgments List of Maps Notes on Contributors Introduction Gábor Kármán 1 Watching over Neighboring Provinces in the Ottoman Empire: The Case of Tributary Princes from the North of the Danube in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Viorel Panaite 2 The Role of Moldavia and Wallachia in Transylvania’s Contacts to the Sublime Porte Klára Jakó 3 News in Wallachia and Moldavia during the Ottoman Hegemony: Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Ovidiu Cristea 4 Calling for Justice and Protection: Sixteenth-Century Wallachian and Moldavian Tributaries as Petitioners to the Imperial Stirrup Radu G. Păun 5 Daghestan during the Long Ottoman-Safavid War (1578–1639): The Shamkhals’ Relations with Ottoman Pashas Dariusz Kołodziejczyk 6 The Principality of Transylvania and the Ottoman Province of Eger, 1596–1660 Balázs Sudár 7 Trade, Diplomacy, and Corruption in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Bosnia: The Ragusan Experience of a Complex Relationship Erica Mezzoli 8 The Curious Case of Caterina Cercheza: Marriage, Cross-Border Patronage, and Ottoman-Moldavian Politics in the Mid-Seventeenth Century Michał Wasiucionek 9 Prince György Rákóczi I of Transylvania and the Elite of Ottoman Hungary, 1630–1636 János B. Szabó 10 Ottoman Protection of Cossack Ukraine under Hetman Petro Doroshenko: Between Legal Aspects and Actual Practice Tetiana Grygorieva 11 King Thököly in Chains: The Fall of the Ottoman Tributary State of Upper Hungary Gábor Kármán 12 Designers or Obedient Executors of the Ottoman Northeastern Policy? The Governors of the Caffa and Trabzon Provinces at the Turn of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska 13 Dealing with Ottoman Outlaws from Land and Sea: Case Studies of Dubrovnik (1746–1748) Ruža Radoš Ćurić Appendix: A Glossary of Place Names from the Eastern Half of Europe Index of Names
