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Everyday life in Ottoman Turkey /

[Raphaela Lewis] sketches the history of the Ottoman dynasty and shows how it fell heir to the Eastern Roman Empire and made its capital in the city of Constantine the Great, renamed Istanbul. She then describes the administrative structure of the Empire, with its extraordinary system of recruitment...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lewis, Raphaela (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Dorset Press, 1988.
Subjects:
Turkey > Social life and customs.
Turkey > History > Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Asie Mineure > Mœurs et coutumes.
Manners and customs.
Turkey.
Alltag
Geschichte
Osmanisches Reich
Table of Contents:
  • Ottoman Turkey, its history and people
  • The establishment
  • Religion and superstition
  • Portrait of a city
  • Family life
  • The course of the year
  • Occupations
  • Life in Anatolia
  • The provinces.