The Frontiers of the Ottoman World
Edited by A.C.S. Peacock
Table of Contents
Introduction: the Ottoman Empire and its frontiers, ACS Peacock
Part One: Frontier Fortifications
The Fortress: defining and mapping the Ottoman frontier in the 16th-17th centuries, Palmira Brummet
Where environmental and frontier studies meet: rivers, forests, marshes, and fortifications along the Ottoman-Hapsburg frontier in Hungary, Gábor Ágoston
The Ottoman conquest of Arabia and the Syrian hajj route, Andrew Petersen
'Aqaba Castle in the Ottoman period, 1517-1917, Denys Pringle
Evliya Çelebi, the Mani and the fortress of Kelefa, Malcolm Wagstaff
The Ottoman northern Black Sea frontier at Akkerman Fortress: the present view from a historical and archaeological project, Svitlana Bilyayeva and Victor Ostapchuk
Palanka forts and
construction activity in the late Ottoman Balkans, Burcu Özgüven
Understanding archaeology and architecture through archival records: the restoration project of the Ottoman fortress of Seddülbahir on the Gallipoli Peninsula of Turkey, Lucienne Thys-Senocak, Rahmi Nurhan Çelik, Arzu Özsavasçi and Gülhan Tanyeli
Part Two: The administration of the frontier
Administration and fortification in the Van region under Ottoman rule in the 16th century, Tom Sinclair
Ottoman frontier policies in northeast Africa, 1517-1914, John Alexander
Continuities in Ottoman centre-periphery relations, 1787-1915, Frederick Anscombe
Ottoman attempts to control the Adriatic frontier in the Napoleonic Wars, Kahraman Sakul
Challenges of a frontier region: the case of Ottoman Iraq
in the 19th century, Gökhan Çetinsaya
The frontier as a measure of modern power: local limits to empire in Yemen, 1872- 1914, Isa Blumi
Part Three: Frontier Society: rulers, ruled and revolt
Razing Gevele and fortifying Konya: the beginning of the Ottoman conquest of the Karamanid principality in south-central Anatolia, 1468, Sara Nur Yildiz
Between the hinterland and the frontier: Ottoman Vidin, 15th to 18th centuries, Rossitsa Gradeva
The garrison and its hinterland in the Ottoman east, 1578-1605, Rhoads Murphey
Ottoman archaeology on the Middle Nile Valley in the Sudan, Intisar Elzein
Garrisons and the local population in Ottoman Hungary: the testimony of the archaeological finds, Ibolya Gerelyes
The Krajina Project: exploring the
Ottoman-Hapsburg borderland, Richard Carlton and Alan Rushworth
War without frontiers: the archaeology of the Arab Revolt, 1916-18, Neil Faulkner and Nick Saunders
Part Four: The Economy of the Frontier
Military service and material gain on the Ottoman-Hapsburg frontier, Mark Stein
Ottoman Suakin 1541 - 1865 AD - lost and found, M. Mallinson, C. Breen, W. Forsythe, J. Phillips and L. Smith
A frontier without archaeology? The Ottoman maritime frontier in the western Mediterranean, 1660-1760, Colin Heywood
The archaeology and history of slavery in South Sudan in the 19th century, Paul Lane and Douglas Johnson
Conclusion, Caroline Finkel
