Index 209
involvement in trade 129–30
legal privileges 54, 65–6, 68, 143, 177–8
opposition to Ottoman rule 50–1
violence by/against 69, 186–8
under Western rule 84, 85, 117
Mustafa II, Sultan 43, 87
Mustafa III, Sultan 77
Mustafa IV, Sultan 92
Mustafa Pasha, Grand Vizier 9
Mustafa Re¸sit Pasha, Grand Vizier 82
Mysore 88
Nablus 106–10, 113
Nakshabandi brotherhood 163
Napoleon Bonaparte 80
Asian campaign 106–7
invasion of Egypt 38, 40–1, 55, 88
nationalism 70–1, 174
and end of Empire 188–92
post-dissolution 195, 196–8
Navarino, battle of (1827) 56
Nejef 96
newspapers see books
Nicopolis, battle of (1396) 20–1
Nile river 120
Nilufer (wife of Orhan) 26
nomads
housing/lifestyle 156–7
role in Empire 118–19, 131 (see also
Turcoman peoples)
North Africa, Ottoman relations with 88–9
Ohrid 180, 189
opera 162
opium 128
Orhan, Sultan 26
Osman I, Sultan (founder of dynasty)
17–18
Osman II, Sultan 98, 99
Osman Pasvanoˇglu 46, 49
Otranto, occupation of 21
Ottoman Empire
administrative structure 4, 27–8, 32–5,
46–7, 61–5, 99–103 (see also
provinces)
centralizing measures 62–5, 102, 108–9
criticisms of (post-dissolution) 188–92,
195–7, 198–9, 201
cultural diversity 142–3, 152, 174, 181
debts 71–2
diplomacy see separate main heading
disintegration (during/after WW1) 3, 5,
60–1, 186, 188–92, 199
economy see separate main heading
as European power 2–3
foreigners’ attitudes to see under Western
Europe
geographical extent 2–3, 13, 14, 22–3,
24–5, 39, 54, 60, 104
holidays 164–8, 165, 177
impact on European culture 7–11
industry 116, 134–40, 182–6
integration of multiple races/faiths 5–6,
18, 69, 176–7, 178–9, 201
internal conflicts 69–71
internal trade 126, 128–30, 131,
135–6
international relations 75–88
international status 3–5, 75–6
international trade 119–21, 126–9, 131,
135
languages 181, 189, 195–6
legal system 4, 200 (see also Islam: law)
modern legacy 3, 5, 20, 68–9, 118, 174,
195–201
officials 28, 29, 34, 43, 62, 146–7, 149
origins 13–19
political ideology 5–6, 32, 41–2, 65–8,
78–9, 190–1, 199, 201
popular culture 161–2
population see separate main heading
power structure 33–4, 42–3, 92–3 (see
also Sultanate)
public buildings/spaces 95, 95–6, 97,
98–9, 157–62
reasons for decline 41–2, 50, 99–101
reasons for success 17–19, 25–31
religion see separate main heading
role in European politics 2–3, 56, 67–8
royal family see princes; Sultanate; names
of rulers
social mobility 31, 143–51
subjects’ contentment with 188–9, 190,
191–2
territorial gains 18–19, 20–5, 41, 102
territorial losses 2–3, 5, 37–41, 54–9,
102, 117
Paissiy, Father 176
Palestine 61, 122, 134
early conflicts over 17, 20
post-Ottoman status 192, 200
relations with Ottoman government 107
Pamuk, Orhan 198
pan-Islamism see Islam, House of
Paris 10, 69, 76, 80, 83, 179
Pashas see vizier
s
Passarowitz, treaty of (1718) 40, 41
Pe¸c 189
‘People of the Book’ 6, 177