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The Empire is dead, long live the Empire! Long-run persistence of trust and corruption in the bureaucracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens’ trust in local public services.
Becker, Sascha O.   +3 more
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The Long Road: An Analysis of the 1557 Book of Mirrors by Seydi Ali Reis

open access: yes, 2012
In 1552, Piri Reis was relieved from the Admiralty of the Ottoman Imperial Navy. Seydi Ali Reis was appointed to replace him and his assignment was to return fifteen galleys from Basra to Egypt. This should have been a relatively short journey.
Weiss, Julian N.
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Toxic waters: Ibrahim Hazboun and the struggle for a Dead Sea concession, 1913-1948 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In 1930, the British Colonial Office signed a formal agreement with Moshe Novomeysky, a Jewish Russian mining engineer from Siberia and committed Zionist, creating Palestine Potash Ltd (PPL). This company was given exclusive rights over the extraction of
Norris, Jacob
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Ottoman Heritage in the Balkans: The Ottoman Empire in Serbia, Serbia in the Ottoman Empire

open access: yes, 2009
The Ottoman Empire had brought to the Balkans a new administrative and military order, as well as a new religion, but it had not automatically destroyed all existing social relations and institutions. On the contrary, some of them were integrated in the Ottoman state model. As the result of such synthesis, the new cultural circle was created.
openaire   +2 more sources

Hakim Muhammad Sabzevari and Ghiaseddin Sabzevari, Two Iranian Physicians in the Court of Ottoman Sultans

open access: yesJournal of Research on History of Medicine, 2017
In Safavid era, Ottoman rulers were interested in science and culture, and there were always Iranian physicians, astronomers, scholars, artists and poets in their courts. Although there were always wars between most Ottoman sultans and the Safavid kings,
Maryam Shoshtari Yegane   +4 more
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