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- Called Prince Vlad Tepes (the Impaler), he put 20,000 persons to death during the six years between 1456 and 1462. He refused tribute to the sultan, repeatedly defeated the Turks, and, as his name suggests, impaled his prisoners.
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The Aegean Expedition of 1456 was the expedition in which the Ottoman army under the command of Mehmed the Conqueror captured Enez, Lemnos and the island of Samothrace. [2] Before. A disagreement arose between Dorino, who was the ruler of Enez, Limbos, and Samothrace, and his aunt, who had the right to govern the government.
the Indian Ocean rather than the defeat of either empire. To mesh Turkish and European naval history is not an easy task, for there is a commonly held notion that the Turks did not engage willingly in maritime activ-ity. As their most ancient records indicate, the Turks developed little naval experi-
Jun 12, 2006 · Dracul’s son, then held as a hostage by the Turks, would succeed his father as voivode in September 1456. Called Prince Vlad Tepes (the Impaler), he put 20,000 persons to death during the six years between 1456 and 1462. He refused tribute to the sultan, repeatedly defeated the Turks, and, as his name suggests, impaled his prisoners.
- Ottoman Ignorance of The Islamic Geographical Tradition
- Ottoman Military Expansion in The Indian Ocean
- Ottoman Scholarship on The Indian Ocean 1550-1600
- Original Ottoman Travel Narratives from The Indian Ocean
- Notes
Since the Ottoman Empire conquered nearly the entire Muslim Middle East during the course of the sixteenth century and became, in some respects, the world Islamic state par excellenceof the early modern period, most scholars have tended to assume that the Ottomans, in contrast to their European contemporaries, were well acquainted with the achievem...
In its essence, the report sent by Selman Reis is a “policy paper,” informing the Ottoman administration of conditions in the Indian Ocean and advising the central authorities on the possibilities for future involvement in the area. Although we have no direct evidence as to how the document was received by his superiors or how influential it was in...
Of all of the works to appear during this period, those with the most explicit Western influence are for the most part maps. Some of these are in fact quite conservative in design, although often a visible attempt has been made to include new information about the discoveries into what is a very traditional form. One such example is the beautifully...
Given this cultural milieu, in which interest in the outside world was expanding, and travel to and from the Indian Ocean was becoming commonplace, one would naturally expect to find a large number of original accounts of Ottoman travel in the Indian Ocean, in addition to the various other kinds of works already discussed. Surprisingly, quite the o...
1See Fuat Sezgin, The Contribution of the Arab-Islamic Geographers to the Formation of the World Map(Frankfurt, 1987). 2 The first of these surveys, carried out under the Caliph al-Ma’mūn in the 9th century C.E. apparently ranged from Morocco to Southeast Asia. Also of importance was al-Biruni’s development in the late 10thcentury of a new method f...
Summary. With its conquest of the Arab lands in the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire (1300–1923) came to control some of the major entrepots of the Indian Ocean trade in the west. This expansion, however, also brought the Ottomans into confrontation with the Portuguese, who were seeking to establish a monopoly of the lucrative spice trade.
The Great Turkish War ( German: Großer Türkenkrieg ), also called the Wars of the Holy League ( Turkish: Kutsal İttifak Savaşları ), was a series of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League consisting of the Holy Roman Empire, Poland-Lithuania, Venice, Russia, and the Kingdom of Hungary. Intensive fighting began in 1683 and ...
Ottoman generals were incompetent, and the army mutinous; expeditions for the relief of Bender and Akkerman failed, Belgrade was taken by the Austrians, The Russian army under the command of Alexander Suvorov defeated the Turks in the Battle of Rymnik and captured Izmail.
