1. Today’s lecture
Ottoman History
Crash Course!
Imperial project
-Territorial expansion
-Centralization and its institutions
-Ruling elite and the subjects
-Transformation of cities
Seventeenth Century
Sultans and political events

2. What do we need to know about Ottoman History to understand Evliya Çelebi? What would you like to know about Evliya Çelebi?

3. What do we need to know about contemporary history to understand our lives?

4. Ottomans and their history

5. Map of Ottoman Expansion, 1300-1700

6. Capture of the Aydos Castle Artist unknown, Şahname-i Al-i Osman, (Book of Kings of the Ottoman Dynasty), dating from ca

7. Map of Constantinople by Buondelmont dating from 1420s

8. Portrait of Mehmed II Gentile Bellini, dating from fifteenth century.
Imperial Project of Mehmed II
*Territorial expansion
*Developments in the central administration and the sultan’s household)
*Creation of a new capital
*Developments in state’s relations with non-muslim communities
Portrait of Mehmed II Gentile Bellini, dating from fifteenth century.

9. Review: Mehmed II and Constantinople
Mehmed II and establishing Ottoman rule
Anatolia
- Komnenis in Trabzon
- Karamanids in Konya
- Akkoyunlus in eastern Anatolia
and Iran
Balkans
-Serbian and Bosnian kingdoms
-Albanian lords
-Wallachia
Black Sea
-Kaffa and Azov from the Genoese
-Khans of Crimea became Ottoman vassals
Aegean
-Genoese holdings
-the Duchy of Athens
-Venetians

10. Medal of Mehmet II, Bertoldo Di Giovanni, 1480s
Inscribed (obverse): Mavmet Asie ac Trapesunzis Magne que Gretie Imperat. (Mehmed, emperor of Asia and Trebizond and Great Greece)
Inscribed (reverse) Gretie/Trapesunty/Asie (Greece, Treibizond, Asia)

11. Topkapı Palace, view from the Bosphorus

13. A public council meeting at the second court Lokman, Hünername, (Book of Skills), dating from ca

14. Recruitment of Children from Arifi, Süleymanname, (Book of Süleyman), dating ca. 1558

15. Ottoman Army I.Central army stationed in the capital *Janissaries
(infantry)
*Cavalry of the Porte
II. Provincial
Cavalry
Timarlı sipahi
Sultan Süleyman at the Battle of Mohacs (Hungary) Osman, Hünername, (Book of Skills), dating from second half of the 16th cent.

17. Map of Ottoman Expansion, 1300-1700

18. PEOPLE OF THE EMPIRE
The military (askeri)
All the ruling circles including the Sultan and his household,
provincial administrators,
religio-administrative cadre (ulema, sing. alim).
Privileges including tax exemption
The subjects (reaya)
Peasants, town and city dwellers, and nomads. Both Muslim and non-Muslim.

19. THE RULERS AND THE RULED
The military (askeri)
All the ruling circles including the Sultan and his household,
provincial administrators,
religio-administrative cadre (ulema, sing. alim).
Privileges including tax exemption
The subjects (reaya)
Peasants, town and city dwellers, and nomads. Both Muslim and non-Muslim.

20. Comparision of maps of Constantinople fifteenth (left) and sixteenth (right) centuries

21. Süleymaniye Mosque, Istanbul.

22. Review: plan of Süleyman’s complex (külliye)
Mosque and mausoleums of Süleyman and Hürreö
4 general medreses
2 specialized medreses- one for the study of medicine, the other for the study of hadis
a Koran school for the children
a hospital
a hospice (tabhane)
a public kitchen (imarethane)
a hammam
rows of small shops

23. Sultan Ahmet mosque-complex

24. Ahmed I
Mustafa
Osman II
Mustafa
Murad IV
İbrahim
Mehmed IV

25. Today’s lecture
Ottoman History
Crash Course!
Imperial project
-Territorial expansion
-Centralization and its institutions
-Ruling elite and the subjects
-Transformation of cities
Seventeenth Century
Sultans and political events