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Welcome to the Ottoman Page. This corner of the web is dedicated to classical Ottoman history. For "classical," I take the dates from Halil Inalcik's title, <cite>The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age (1300-1600)</cite>.<p><p>
I have removed the "books" section since the advent of online booksellers like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/" target="_new">Amazon.com</a> and <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/" target="_new">Barnes & Noble</a> has relegated my hand-made catalog to obsolesence.<p><p>
New links will appear periodically.<p><p>
If you're interested in the Ottoman background of Kosovo, lately in the news, please turn to the "suggested reading" page and take a look at <a href="bibliography.html#kosovo" target="_new">Noel Malcolm's new book</a>.<p><p>
Suggestions for correcting, improving, expanding or updating the page can be e-mailed directly to <a
href="mailto:ottoman@mindspring.com">me</a>.<p><p>
<a href="me.html">bill walsh</a><p><p>
<small>Most recent update: 22 November 1999.</small><p>
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<h5>Academic Institutions</h5></a>
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Bilkent University's <a href="http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~history" TARGET="_new">Department of History</a>, which offers, among other things:
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<li><A HREF="http://www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~history/topkapi.html" TARGET="_new">The Topkapi Palace Museum</A>
<li><A HREF="http://www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~history/CGI/search.html" TARGET="_new">Halil Inalcik Collection</A>
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Harvard University's
<a href="http://fas-www.harvard.edu/~mideast/index.html" TARGET="_new">
Center for Middle Eastern Studies</a> also maintains a more comprehensive <a href="http://fas-www.harvard.edu/~mideast/MESlinks/MESlinks.html" TARGET="_new">list of centers of study of the Middle East</a>.
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Harvard Library's <a href="http://fas-www.harvard.edu/~mideast/localres/libraryres.html" TARGET="_new">Middle Eastern Resources</a><p><p>
Princeton University's <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~nes/" TARGET="_new">Near Eastern Studies Department</a><p><p>
University of Chicago
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<li><a href="http://ap-www.uchicago.edu/AcaPubs/GradAnno/html/5mid_east.html" TARGET="_new">
Center for Middle Eastern Studies</a>
<li><a href="http://ap-www.uchicago.edu/AcaPubs/GradAnno/html/17h_nelc.html" TARGET="_new">
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations</a>
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University of Michigan Library's
<a href="http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Area.Programs/Near.East/speccol.html" TARGET="_new">
Near Eastern special collections</a><p><p>
University of Pennsylvania's
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<li><a href="http://mec.sas.upenn.edu/" TARGET="_new">
Middle East Center</a> and <a href="http://www.sas.upenn.edu/ames/" target="_new">Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies</a>
<li>Maps of "<a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~rs143/ottoma.jpg" target="_new">Map of the Growth of the Ottoman Empire From the Early 14th Century Till 1512</a>" and "<a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~rs143/ottosul.jpg" target="_new">Map of The Ottoman Sultanate in the 16th and 17th Centuries</a>"
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Washington University's <a href="http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~csis/" TARGET="_new">Center for the Study of Islamic Societies and Civilizations</a>
(<a href="mailto:csis@artsci.wustl.edu">e-mail</a>)<p><p>
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<h5>Academic Resources</h5></a><p><p>
Washington State University has an online world civilizations class which has a nice, <a href="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/OTTOMAN/OTTOMAN1.HTM" target="_new">introduction to the Ottomans</a><p><p>
Peter Sebastian and Mary Neff's page on <a href="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Sebastian5000/" target="_new">Marino Sanuto, Venetian historian and politician (1466-1536)</a> who observed the contemporary Ottoman world in detail.<p><p>
Ayse Koçoglu's
<a href="http://www-transportation.eng.ohio-state.edu/association/ayse/html/mywork.htm" TARGET="_new">
Ottoman history page
</a><p><p>
Atlantic Studies on Societies in Change #56, East European Monographs, CCLV, War & Society in East Central Europe, Vol. XXVI, <A HREF="http://www.hungary.com/corvinus/warso/warso00.html" target="_new">The Fall of The Medieval Kingdom of Hungary: Mohacs 1526 - Buda 1541</A> by Geza Perjes, (trans. Maria D. Fenyo; foreword, Janos M. Bak), is a nicely presented web-based version of a Hungarian revisionist account of the consequences of the battle of Mohacs. <p><p>
Index to Murat Çizakça's
<a href="http://cs.muohio.edu/~csdata/ottoman_economic_history.shtml" TARGET="_new">
database of tax-farm and waqf records
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Bekir Kemal Ataman's <a href="http://www.archimac.marun.edu.tr/" target="_new">Turkish Archives</a> page at Marmara Üniversitesi has some useful information on the Ottoman (Basbakanlik) archives.<p><p>
<a href="http://www.lib.uchicago.edu:80/LibInfo/SourcesBySubject/MiddleEast/CatIntro.html" TARGET="_new">The Chicago Ottoman Microforms Project</a><p>
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<li><a href="http://www.lib.uchicago.edu:80/LibInfo/SourcesBySubject/MiddleEast/Devlet_Salname.html" TARGET="_new">Devlet Salnames</a>
<li><a href="http://www.lib.uchicago.edu:80/LibInfo/SourcesBySubject/MiddleEast/Vilayet_Salname.html" TARGET="_new">Vilayet Salnames</a>
<li><a href="http://www.lib.uchicago.edu:80/LibInfo/SourcesBySubject/MiddleEast/Ministry_salname.html" TARGET="_new">Ministry and Special Interest Salnames</a>
<li><a href="http://www.lib.uchicago.edu:80/LibInfo/SourcesBySubject/MiddleEast/TCResmi.html" TARGET="_new">T.C. Resmi Gazete</a>
<li><a href="http://www.lib.uchicago.edu:80/LibInfo/SourcesBySubject/MiddleEast/Budgets.html" TARGET="_new">Budgets and Financial Reports</a>
<li><a href="http://www.lib.uchicago.edu:80/LibInfo/SourcesBySubject/MiddleEast/Commerce.html" TARGET="_new">Commerce and Industry</a>
<li><a href="http://www.lib.uchicago.edu:80/LibInfo/SourcesBySubject/MiddleEast/Divans.html" TARGET="_new">The Divan Project</a>
<li><a href="http://www.lib.uchicago.edu:80/LibInfo/SourcesBySubject/MiddleEast/Histories.html" TARGET="_new">Ottoman Histories and Historical Sources</a>
<li><a href="http://www.lib.uchicago.edu:80/LibInfo/SourcesBySubject/MiddleEast/Literature.html" TARGET="_new">Ottoman Literature, Writers and the Arts</a>
<li><a href="http://www.lib.uchicago.edu:80/LibInfo/SourcesBySubject/MiddleEast/Journals.html" TARGET="_new">Ottoman and Modern Turkish Journals and Popular
Press</a>
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University of North Carolina's <A HREF="http://www.lib.unc.edu/cdd/crs/foreign/meiw/films.html" TARGET="_new">Middle East and Islamic Filmography</A><p><p>
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<h5>Journals</h5></a><p><p>
Leiden University's
<a href="http://www.leidenuniv.nl/nino/turcica.html" TARGET="_new">
<cite>Turcica</cite></a><p><p>
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<a href="http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/his/history/braude.html" TARGET="_new">
Benjamin Braude</a>, Associate Professor, Boston College<p><p>
<a href="http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/m500/cmedst/facfar.html" TARGET="_new">
Caesar Farah</a>, Professor of History, University of Minnesota<p><p>
<a href="http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/people/findley.htm" TARGET="_new">
Carter V. Findley</a>, Professor, Ohio State University<p><p>
<a href="http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/people/hathaway.htm" TARGET="_new">
Jane Hathaway</a>, Professor, Ohio State University<p><p>
<a href="http://fas-www.harvard.edu/~mideast/people/kafadar.html" TARGET="_new">
Cemal Kafadar</a>, Harvard University
(<a href="http://fas-www.harvard.edu/~mideast/people/faculty_listfull.html#kafadar" TARGET="_new">Address, phone & e-mail</a>)<p><p>
<a href="http://fas-www.harvard.edu/~mideast/people/necipoglu.html" TARGET="_new">
Gülru Necipoglu</a>, Harvard University
(<a href="http://fas-www.harvard.edu/~mideast/people/faculty_listfull.html#necipoglu" TARGET="_new">Address & Phone</a>)<p><p>
<a href="http://www.unc.edu/depts/history/FACULTY/shields.htm" TARGET="_new">
Sarah Shields</a>, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill<p><p>
<A HREF="http://spinoza.tau.ac.il/hci/vip/toledano.htm">Ehud R. Toledano</a>, Professor, Tel Aviv University<p><p><p>
Princeton University's entire <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~nes/nesfac.html" TARGET="_new">Near Eastern Studies Faculty</a><p><p>
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<small>See also the holdings of Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, links to which appear above.</small><p><p>
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Yahoo's links on <A HREF="http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/By_Region/Countries/Turkey/Complete_Listing/" target="_new">Turkish and Ottoman history</A> are pretty good.<P><P>
Kelley Ross has a nice <a href="http://www.friesian.com/turkia.htm" target="_new">timeline of Ottoman sovereigns</a>, accompanied by maps of the Empire's waxing and waning
As a curiosity, I cannot resist listing the <A HREF="http://www.almanach.be/" target="_new">Almanach de Bruxelles</A>, in which one may find listed <<A HREF="http://www.almanach.be/search/t/turkey.html" target="_new">the descendants of the Ottoman line</a>.<P><P>
<A HREF="http://www.prep.mcneese.edu/engr/engr321/preis/piri_r~1.htm" target="_new">The Piri Reis Map Project</a><p><p>
Explore Turkey has a nice page on <a href="http://www.exploreturkey.com/ist_otto.htm" target="_new">Istanbul in the Ottoman period</a> with links to other sites of interest in the city and in Turkey in general
A Belgian page on <a href="http://fotw.digibel.be/flags/tr-ottom.html" target="_new">Ottoman flags</a>, which has some interesting images but relatively little explanatory information or historical context.<p><p>
<a href="http://www.netexpress.net/~cmaki/tughra/tughra.htm" TARGET="_new">Tughra Net</a> is an Ottoman philatelic site.<p><p>
Elif Akcali's chapter on <a href="http://palette.ecn.purdue.edu/~akcali/ottomn.html" TARGET="_new">Ottoman cuisine</a> from her <a href="http://palette.ecn.purdue.edu/~akcali/history.cuisine.html" TARGET="_new">history of Turkish cuisine</a><p><p>
"<a href="http://www.panix.com/~eren/cookbook/index.html" target="_new">GOOD APPETITE</a>", another page on Ottoman and Turkish cuisine.<p><p>
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