Provincial elites in the Ottoman Empire : Halcyon Days in Crete V : a symposium held in Rethymno 10-12 January 2003 / edited by Antonis Anastasopoulos.

At head of title: Foundation for Research & Technology--Hellas, Institute for Mediterranean Studies.

Includes bibliographical references.

György Hazai, La Langue Torque dans les Provinces de L'empire Otoman et l'atittude des élites locales envers celle-ci : Le cas de la Hongrie -- Nicolas Vatin, Aperçu sur la mobilité des élites ottomanes musulmanes locales d'après les stèles funéraires -- Jane Hathaway, Bilateral Factionalism in the Ottoman Provinces -- Hülya Canbakal, On the 'Nobility' of Provincial Notables -- Aleksandar Fontic, Belgrade: A Muslim and Non-Muslim Cultural Centre (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries) -- Pinelopi Stathi, Provincial Bishops of the Orthodox Church as Members of the Ottoman Elite (Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries) -- Melek Delilbaşı, Christian Sipahis in the Tırhala Taxation Registers (Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries) -- Leslie Peirce, Entrepreneurial Success in Sixteenth-Century Ayntab: The Case of Seydi Ahmed Boyacı. Local Notable -- Eleni Gara, Moneylenders and Landowners: In Search of Urban Muslim Elites in The Early Modern Balkans -- Rossitsa Gradeva, Towards A Portrait of The Rich in Otoman Provincial Society: Sofia in the 1670s -- Svetlana Ivanova, The Elites of The Reaya in The Towns of Rumeli, Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries -- Michael Ursinus, The Çiftlik Sahipleri of Manastır As A Local Elite, Late Seventeenth to Early Nineteenth Century -- Antonis Anstasopoulos, The Mixed Elite of A Balkan Town: Karafetye in The Second Half of The Eighteenth Century -- Yuzo Nagata, Ayan in Anatolia and The Balkans During The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Cace Study of The Karamanoğlu Family -- Suraiya Faroqhi, Exporting Grain from The Anatolian South-West: The Power and Wealth Oftekelioğlu Mehmed Ağa and His Magnate Household -- Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu, Architectural Patronage of Ayan Families in Anatolia -- Emilie Thémopoulou, Les Élites Urbaines À L'époque Du Tanâmat : Le Cas de Saîonique -- Martin Strohmeier, Abd Al-Rahman Pasha Al-Yusuf, A Notabte in Damascus (1873/74-1920)

"Provincial elites were an important factor in the life of the Ottoman Empire in many respects: as local leadership, as political figures mediating between the central state and its provinces, as tax-farmers and entrepreneurs, as role models for their peers. There is a wide variety of people who may be regarded as belonging to the Ottoman provincial elites, because of both the extensive territory occupied by the Empire and its longevity. Eighteen contributions published in this volume discuss several aspects of Ottoman provincial elites, both Muslim and non-Muslim. Among the topics covered are the composition and characteristics of the elite, elite culture, patronage, and wealth and power bases, relations of elite figures with the state authorities and other members of the elite, and elite mobility over an extensive period of time ranging from the fifteenth to the early twentieth century."-- Back cover.

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