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THE USE OF SHIPS AS A STRATEGIC ASSET IN THE FORMATION AND EXPANSION OF OTTOMAN AUTHORITY

International Journal of Law, Government and Communication
Ships have long been regarded as strategic assets by states and empires. In early civilizations like Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, ships were used to control trade routes, expand territories, and establish diplomatic relations. In the case of the Ottoman Empire, ships played a crucial role in strengthening imperial power.
Ammalina Dalillah Mohd Isa, Roziah Sidik Mat Sidek, Napisah Karimah Ismail, Nurliyana Mohd Talib, Afeez Nawfal Mohd Isa   +4 more
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‘He Seems Like a Morisco to Me, / Even in the Way He Talks’: Articulating morisco Difference in Lope de Vega and Cervantes

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between 1609 and 1614, after over a century of forced conversions, cultural oppression and inquisitorial persecution, Spain expelled its morisco subjects. Despite being baptised Christians, the descendants of Spain's Muslim population had been deemed incapable of sincerely following the Christian faith and assimilating into society due to ...
Elizabeth Liliann Blakemore
wiley   +1 more source

Decolonial Entangled Ethnographic Research: Transformative Collaborations With the UK Alevi Community Over the Last 15 Years

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The vibrant British Alevi community has settled in London and other parts of the UK since the late 1980s, constituting the largest population of Kurdish Alevis outside of Turkey. Their religion is Alevism, but they are often mistakenly identified as Turkish and Muslim, contributing to their invisibility in this country.
Umit Cetin, Celia Jenkins
wiley   +1 more source

Monitoring migrations: the Habsburg-Ottoman border in the eighteenth century [PDF]

, 2019
The dissertation examines an early migration control system, which existed on the Habsburg-Ottoman border in the eighteenth century. Between the 1720s and the 1850s, migrants entering the Habsburg Monarchy from the Ottoman Empire had to go through ...
Pesalj, J.
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
wiley   +1 more source

From Competition to Compartmentalization: Rethinking Türkiye‐Gulf Relations

Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 3, Autumn (Fall) 2026.
Abstract For nearly a decade following the Arab uprisings, relations between Ankara and key Gulf capitals were marked by intense rivalry and proxy contestation across several regional arenas, notably in Egypt and Syria. Why did relations shift toward pragmatic cooperation after such prolonged polarization?
Betul Dogan‐Akkas
wiley   +1 more source

L'eglise latine dans l'Empire Ottoman [PDF]

, 2018
The Latin Catholic Church in the East is one of the smallest communities but has a very ancient history. Created in the Byzantine era, within the colonies of Italian traders, it was maintained even during the Ottoman period.
Del Zanna Giorgio
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The Türkiye‐Qatar Partnership: From Ottoman Roots to Strategic Alliance

Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 3, Autumn (Fall) 2026.
Abstract As Qatar, a small country in a strategic location, faced a pressure campaign from Gulf states in 2017, Türkiye expanded its military presence and provided support that proved crucial to Doha's ability to overcome the crisis. This demonstrated Türkiye's new grand strategy, its capacity to project influence into the Gulf, and its status as a ...
Ismail Köse, Fatma Alghussein
wiley   +1 more source

Negotiating the Ottoman Constitution : 1839-1876 [PDF]

, 2018
This book traces the transcultural and transnational dimension of the internal genesis of the Ottoman Constitution, which was promulgated on December 23, 1876.
KOÇUNYAN, Aylin
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Ephemeral Lives Versus Colonial Afterlives: Building Decolonial Urbanisms Through Two African Culture Festivals in Athens

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how African migrantised and diasporic communities in Athens contest the city's dominant colonial imaginary through cultural festival practice. We argue that Athens has been constructed as a racialised chronotope: a frozen, whitened tableau anchored in classical antiquity that renders contemporary racialised presences ...
Anna Papoutsi, Antonis Vradis
wiley   +1 more source