An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play 0520930053, 9780520930056

In the space of six years early in the seventeenth century, the Ottoman Empire underwent such turmoil and trauma--the as

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An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play
0520930053, 9780520930056

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