Ottoman studies / İlber Ortaylı ; editor Can Cemgil.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents Foreword vii Ottoman Millets’ 3 Ottoman Jewry and the Turkish Language 15 The Ottoman Millet System and it’s Social Dimensions 23 The Greeks and Ottoman Administration During the Tanzimat Period 37 From the Ottoman Experiment in Local Government to the First Constitutional Parliament of 1876-77 45 Historiography 55 Basic Trends in Ottoman Turkish Historiography 57 The Archives of Russia and Ottoman History 69Modernization 75 The Ottoman Empire at the end of the Seventeenth Century 77 The Problem of Nationalities in the Ottoman Empire Following the Second Siege of Vienna 91 Ottoman-Habsburg Relations 1740-1777, and Structural Changes in the International Affairs of the Ottoman State 111 Provinces 127 The Port Cities in the Arab Provinces of the Ottoman Empire 129 Ioanina and its Port-Town Preveza in the Late Ottoman Empire (1864-1895) 143 Family 153 The Family in Ottoman Society 155 Ottoman Family Law and the State in the Nineteenth Century 173 Some Notes on Modern Turkish Historical Drama 189 Russia and Turkey 201 Reports and Considerations of Ismail Bey Gasprinskii in Tercüman on Central Asia 203 Suleiman and Ivan: Two Autocrats of Eastern Europe 211 Reforms of Petrine Russia and the Ottoman Mind 223