Historical Studies on Spain

According to proponents of the “Military Revolution” theory, musketry volley fire was among the military innovations that fundamentally altered early modern field warfare. The origins of European volley fire date back to the 1590s, but no western army, with the possible exception of the Dutch in 1600, was able to use…

• GÜNHAN BÖREKÇİ

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Abstract The present paper focuses on the role of the Ottomans and Dutch in the early commercial integration between the Levant and Atlantic in the seventeenth century. As an expanding trading nation in the world economy, the Dutch Republic played an important role in the commercial integration between the provinces o…

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• EMRAH NAKİ

Çok eski çağlardan beri insanların koyun sürüleri güttükleri ve yapağısından iplik yaparak basit kumaşlar dokudukları bilinmektedir. Yün, kumaş dokumalarda ilk defa Babiller tarafından milattan önce 4000 yıllarında kullanılmıştır. Koyun yetiştiriciliği ve yapağı üretimi insanlığın en eski organize endüstri faaliyetidi…

• MEHMET KOYUNCU

In the middle of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Grand Vizier Rüstem Pasha transformed Ottoman foreign policy from conquest-based expansionism to a peace-oriented foreign policy. This chapter examines how and why the Ottoman governing elite, especially Rustem Pasha, preferred to abandon the traditional policy of ex…

Abstract This article examines the rise of the Köprülü grand viziers and their relationship with Sultan Mehmed IV (r. 1648–1687) within the context of broader developments in early modern Europe. It challenges the prevailing view that Mehmed IV was a weak Sultan, arguing that at a time of profound crisis the Sultan su…

• CUMHUR BEKAR

Glavni je cilj rada predložiti alternativnu historiografiju u odnosu na osmansku arhitekturu 19. stoljeća, lišenu eurocentrične paradigme, stavljanjem naglaska na ‘nevidljive’ čimbenike ove povijesti, tj. zanemarenu arhitekturu u provincijama. Provincijske džamije koje su predmet analize rada ukazuju na potrebu da se…

• CEREN KATİPOĞLU ÖZMEN

Abstract During the sixteenth century Genoa became a significant ally of the Habsburg Empire. Shared political, commercial, financial, and strategic factors tied the Genoese patricians firmly to Spain. However, their alliance was by no means permanent. The relations between the Genoese and the Spanish crown were not w…

• FATMA ÖZDEN MERCAN

Nikola Mavroyani, Rusya’nın Kırım’ı ilhakı sonrasında Eflâk-Boğdan’da nüfuzunu giderek daha fazla hissettirdiği bir dönemde Eflâk voyvodası olmak istedi. Bunun için koruyucusu Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Paşa’nın gücünü sonuna kadar kullandığı gibi kendisi de İngiliz ve Rus elçililerinin desteğiyle Eflâk Voy¬vodası olabilmek…

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In 1734, five years after his departure from Bern in the retinue of the English Ambassador to Istanbul, Louis Monier was dismissed from his position as the Ambassador's personal secretary. When the Dutch Ambassador offered him protection – possibly to provoke his colleague – he was alternately dubbed favourite and con…