The Frontiers of the Ottoman World

Edited by A.C.S. Peacock

A British Academy Publication

Offers new perspectives on the formation of the early modern and modern worlds in Eastern/Central Europe and the Middle East.

The Frontiers of the Ottoman World

Edited by A.C.S. Peacock

A British Academy Publication

Description

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 essays combine archaeological and historical approaches to 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, essays cover frontier fortifications, administration, society and economy and shed light on the Ottomans' interaction with their neighbors, both Muslim and Christian, through warfare, trade and diplomacy. As well as summing up the current state of knowledge they also point the way to fresh avenues of research.

The Frontiers of the Ottoman World is essential reading for historians and archaeologists of the Middle East and early modern Central and Eastern Europe. Giving a particular prominence to the nascent discipline of Ottoman archaeology, the volume will also be of particular interest to students of Islamic archaeology.

The Frontiers of the Ottoman World

Edited by A.C.S. Peacock

A British Academy Publication

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