Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
The paper examines the akıncıs’ actions and hence the motivation for their raids as essential con... more The paper examines the akıncıs’ actions and hence the motivation for their raids as essential constituents within the process of Ottoman conquest of the Balkans in the late Middle Ages. Focusing on the raiders and their plundering activities, it asserts that the akıncıs played a crucial key role in the early Ottoman slave economy, as slave hunting was arguably the main economic driving force behind the Ottoman conquest. It hence argues that an analysis of the akıncıs allows for new insights into the nature of the early Ottoman Empire, but also advances the idea that their actions fall within a particular phase of the conquest period. To that end, the authors re-periodize the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans into the akıncı phase, which spanned eight to thirteen decades, depending on the region, and was characterized by continuous slave hunting and destruction of economic infrastructure, and the phase of administrative integration into the Ottoman Empire, which latter process was purs...
The article aims at interpreting the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans as a major historical proces... more The article aims at interpreting the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans as a major historical process in a larger spatial context. It discusses the late Medieval Balkans as a space that was interrelated with surrounding political and cultural spaces from the Adriatic to Anatolia and from the Black Sea area to the Aegean basin with a special focus on migration and diaspora groups.
open access https://austriaca.at/9783700182085 edition of Austro-Hungarian consular reports from ... more open access https://austriaca.at/9783700182085 edition of Austro-Hungarian consular reports from the Vilayet of Kosovo and teh first years of Serbian administration, 1870-1914, in five volumes, Austrian Academy of Sciences press, , 2435 pp.
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
The paper examines the akıncıs’ actions and hence the motivation for their raids as essential con... more The paper examines the akıncıs’ actions and hence the motivation for their raids as essential constituents within the process of Ottoman conquest of the Balkans in the late Middle Ages. Focusing on the raiders and their plundering activities, it asserts that the akıncıs played a crucial key role in the early Ottoman slave economy, as slave hunting was arguably the main economic driving force behind the Ottoman conquest. It hence argues that an analysis of the akıncıs allows for new insights into the nature of the early Ottoman Empire, but also advances the idea that their actions fall within a particular phase of the conquest period. To that end, the authors re-periodize the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans into the akıncı phase, which spanned eight to thirteen decades, depending on the region, and was characterized by continuous slave hunting and destruction of economic infrastructure, and the phase of administrative integration into the Ottoman Empire, which latter process was purs...
The article aims at interpreting the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans as a major historical proces... more The article aims at interpreting the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans as a major historical process in a larger spatial context. It discusses the late Medieval Balkans as a space that was interrelated with surrounding political and cultural spaces from the Adriatic to Anatolia and from the Black Sea area to the Aegean basin with a special focus on migration and diaspora groups.
open access https://austriaca.at/9783700182085 edition of Austro-Hungarian consular reports from ... more open access https://austriaca.at/9783700182085 edition of Austro-Hungarian consular reports from the Vilayet of Kosovo and teh first years of Serbian administration, 1870-1914, in five volumes, Austrian Academy of Sciences press, , 2435 pp.
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