1. İstanbul Matrakçı Nasuh, Beyan-ı Menazil-i Sefer-i Irakeyn, (Halting Stations of the Eastern Campaign), dating from

2. Who were the Ottomans?

3. Map of Ottoman Expansion, 1300-1700

4. DATES TO NOTE
13 Oct. 5 History Deparment Party
27 Oct. 5 Workshop
“İstanbul: Vebanın Şehri”
with Prof. Nükhet Varlık, Rutgers University/RCAC Fellow (in Turkish)
30 Oct. Sat Morning Topkapi Palace Field-Trip

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

6. Map of Constantinople by Buondelmont dating from 1420s

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

8. Portrait of Mehmed II Gentile Bellini, dating from fifteenth century.

9. Topkapı Palace, view from the Bosphorus

10. Topkapı Palace, Second/Middle Gate

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

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

14. The banquet of the Austrian ambassador at the public Council Hall in 1628 from Teply, Die kasierliche Grossbotschaft an Sultan Murad ıv, dating from seventeenth century.

15. Safavid Embassy presenting gifts to Selim II from Lokman, Hünername, (Book of Skills), dating from ca

16. Prince Cem in the presence of the Pope Guillaume Caoursin, Opera, (Paris: 1496)

18. Sultan Süleyman at the Battle of Mohacs Osman, Hünername, (Book of Skills), dating from second half of the 16th cent.

20. two different depictions of the conquest of castles

22. Sultan Süleyman and Hürrem Sultan

24. Map of Ottoman Expansion, 1300-1700

25. Iznik castle and Yenişehir in north western Anatolia from Matrakci Nasuh’s Beyan-i Menazil-i Sefer-i Irakeyn, (Halting Stations of the Eastern Campaign), dating from

28. Ottoman Turkish woman from a picture album, Bodleian Library, dating from 1587.

29. Party, from Johannes Lewenklaw’s history, Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, dating from 1586

30. Meeting at a Sufi gathering, from Nusretname, (the Book of Victory), dating from 1584.

31. İstanbul Matrakçı Nasuh, Beyan-ı Menazil-i Sefer-i Irakeyn, (Halting Stations of the Eastern Campaign), dating from

32. Parade Lokman, Surname, (Book of Festivities), dating from 1582.

33. Procession of ???? Lokman, Surname, (Book of Festivals), dating from 1582.

34. Süleymaniye Mosque, Istanbul.

35. 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

36. Coffee house from a picture album, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, dating from early seventeenth century.

37. Young man intoxicated by wine from Levni’s works, dating from eighteenth century.

38. ASSIGNMENT 1
DUE SEP. 29th IN-CLASS
If you were to visit Istanbul on a day in 1550s what would you have found/what would you have been interested in discovering?
Now you are the historian. Write one paragraph on the Ottoman History.
What is your main point? Which primary sources do you plan to use? (Any subject, any period between ).