The Ottoman "wild west" : the Balkan frontier in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Nikolay Ant...
The Ottoman "wild west" : the Balkan frontier in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Nikolay Ant...
The Ottoman "wild west" : the Balkan frontier in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Nikolay Antov (University of Arkansas).
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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G 2018/2160
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English
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xv, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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The broad historical context : the rise of the Ottoman empire and the formation of Muslim communities in the Balkans as an integral part of the Ottomanization of the region -- Colonization, settlement, and faith in the Balkans in the early Ottoman period (ca. 1352 to early 16th century) -- The north...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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England
Date Published
2017.
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In the late fifteenth century, the north-eastern Balkans were under-populated and under-institutionalized. Yet, by the end of the following century, the regions of Deliorman and Gerlovo were home to one of the largest Muslim populations in southeast Europe. Nikolay Antov sheds fresh light on the mechanics of Islamization along the Ottoman frontier,...
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The Ottoman "wild west" : the Balkan frontier in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Nikolay Antov (University of Arkansas).
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-304) and index.
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G 2018/2160
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74VKVomleVKZ
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1107182638 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9781107182639 (hardback ; alk. paper)
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949.6031
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991024165609002626
