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		<title>Christian Allies of the Ottoman Empire &#8212; EGO </title>
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	<h1>Christian Allies of the Ottoman Empire</h1>
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 The relationship between the Ottomans and the Christians did not evolve around continuous hostility and conflict, as is generally assumed. The Ottomans employed Christians extensively, used Western know-how and technology, and encouraged European merchants to trade in the Levant. On the state level, too, what dictated international diplomacy was not the religious factors, but rather rational strategies that were the results of carefully calculated priorities, for instance, several alliances between the Ottomans and the Christian states. All this cooperation blurred the cultural boundaries and facilitated the flow of people, ideas, technologies and goods from one civilization to another.
 
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 <h2>Introduction</h2>
Cooperation between the Ottomans and various Christian groups and individuals started as early as the beginning of the 14th century, when the Ottoman state itself emerged. The Ottomans, although a Muslim polity, did not hesitate to cooperate with Christians for practical reasons. Nevertheless, the misreading of the Ghaza (Holy War) literature<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_0_marker1" title=' Ghaza is sometimes translated as "Holy War". However, the meaning of ghaza was much more fluid. It did not only refer to religious Muslims fighting for the cause of Islam against the infidel Christians. Most, if not all, of the ghaza activities that the ghazis conducted were predatory raids with little religious preoccupation, since these raids were directed against Muslims as well. Neither were these ghazi forces only Muslims. Especially during the early period of Ottoman history, Christians and Muslims joined forces in conducting these raids. &#193;goston, Ghaza 2009.'><a href="#InsertNoteID_0">1</a> and the consequent romanticization of the Ottomans' struggle in carrying the banner of Islam conceal the true nature of relations between Muslims and Christians. Rather than an inevitable conflict, what prevailed was cooperation in which cultural, ethnic, and religious boundaries seemed to disappear.
The Ottomans came into contact and allied themselves with Christians on two levels. Firstly, Christian allies of the Ottomans were individuals; the Ottomans employed a number of Christians in their service, mostly, but not always, after they had converted. It should not be forgotten that the Ottomans established their rule primarily in the Christian <a href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/crossroads/border-regions/balkans/ulf-brunnbauer-the-balkans">Balkans</a>, and that their pragmatism and the complex ethno-religious composition of the frontiers persuaded them to resort to using the service of Christians as a means of integration. The Christians were instrumental in the early successes of the <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4075720-1" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Ottoman Empire</a><span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_1_marker2" title=" The significance of Christian participation in the early successes of the Ottoman Empire has been debated for almost a century. Certain historians, like Mehmed Fuad K&#246;pr&#252;l&#252; and Paul Wittek, have been less convinced than Herbert Gibbons, George G. Arnakis, Nicolae Iorga or Heath Lowry by the importance of the Christian contribution; nonetheless, even the fiercest defenders of the Turco-Muslim role in the Ottoman success did not deny that Christian participation existed. Iorga, Byzance 1935; Wittek, The Rise 1938; K&#246;pr&#252;l&#252;, Bizans M&#252;esseselerinin 1939; idem, Some Observations 1993; Arnakis, Hoi prototi othomanoi 1947. For a good survey of historiography on the foundation of the Ottoman Empire, see Kafadar, Between Two Worlds 1995, Chapter 1; Lowry, Early Ottoman State 2003, Chapter 1."><a href="#InsertNoteID_1">2</a>, and the Ottomans did not remain an alienated caste of rulers, but tried to incorporate local elements into their government in an effort to maximize the efficiency of their rule. In addition to local elements, they did not hesitate to rely on the expertise of, and offer contracts to, foreign Christians whenever it suited their interests. Secondly, the Ottomans had a number of Christian allies on the state level. They did not necessarily fight with their Christian neighbours all the time. The Grand Strategy of the Ottoman Empire evolved more around strategic, logistical, and pragmatic calculations than religious convictions, which enabled them to contract alliances and marriages, and make treaties with Christian polities.<a href="#InsertNoteID_2">3</a>
<h2>Christians in the Service of the Ottomans</h2>
In the multicultural environment of the northwestern <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4085685-9" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Anatolian</a> marches, the early successes of the Ottomans lay in their ability to mobilize, and in time to assimilate, local Christian elites, whose cooperation facilitated Ottoman rule in the region. Two of the most famous of these elite families that played an important part in early Ottoman history were the Mihalo&#287;ullar&#305; and Evrenoso&#287;ullar&#305;. The founder of the first, K&#246;se Mihal (d. c. 1340) was a member of the Byzantine feudal aristocracy,<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_3_marker4" title=" Babinger, M&#238;kh&#226;l-oghlu 1960&#8211;2005; G&#246;kbilgin, Mihal-O&#287;ullar&#305; 1979; p. 285; Lowry, Early Ottoman State 2003, pp. 57&#8211;59; Sabev, The Legend 2002. Cf. Imber, The Legend 1993, pp. 67&#8211;68; Lindner, Between Seljuks 2000, p. 121."><a href="#InsertNoteID_3">4</a> and that of the second, Evrenos Be&#287; (d. 1417) was of either Greek or Catalan/Aragonese origin.<a href="#InsertNoteID_4">5</a> Ironically, the descendants of the two families became hereditary commanders of the ak&#305;nc&#305; ("raider") groups that were assigned the task of raiding enemy territory by conducting Ghaza, Holy War, in the name of Islam.
The Ottomans, on the periphery of the Islamic world, had to import soldiers and bureaucrats from the Muslim countries in the East. This dearth of personnel of their own facilitated the penetration of Christian elements into the Ottoman state structure. Apart from the establishment of certain ak&#305;ndj&#305; families within the Ottoman system, the Ottomans formed other institutions to employ Christians within the Ottoman state apparatus, the most prominent of which was the dev&#351;irme ("levy") system. In an effort to provide the central government with a loyal military corps, rather than the frontier warriors of questionable loyalty, the Ottomans gathered young boys from Christian villages and assimilated them into the dev&#351;irme system.<a href="#InsertNoteID_5">6</a> After completing their education, as a part of which they learnt Turkish and the religion of Islam, they would be assigned to military and administrative posts. As part of the Sultan's household, their loyalty was ensured by their lack of the independence and family ties that their Muslim counterparts enjoyed. In time, the dev&#351;irme faction grew strong enough to prevail over the Turco-Muslim faction and to dominate Ottoman politics. From the mid-15th to the mid-17th century, when the system was abolished, only eleven out of 78 Ottoman Grand Viziers were of Turkish origin, while the rest were dev&#351;irme with the following ethnic backgrounds: Bosnian, Croatian, Armenian, Greek, Italian, Hungarian, Circassian, Georgian, Pomak, and Abkhazian.<a href="#InsertNoteID_6">7</a>
Some of the high-ranking dev&#351;irme-based officials came from prominent Christian families. Hass Murad Pasha (d. 1468) and his younger brother Mesih Pasha (d. 1501) were nephews of the last Byzantine Emperor <a class="external-link" data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/23627099" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Constantine XI Paleologos (1404&#8211;1453)</a>, while the longest-serving Grand Vizier of <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/86538783" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Mehmed II (1432&#8211;1481)</a><a class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/alliances-and-wars/en/mediainfo/sultan-mehmed-ii.-fatih-143220131481" title="Sultan Mehmed II. Fatih (1432&#8211;1481)">[<img alt="Gentile Bellini (c. 1429&#8211;1507), portrait of Mehmed II (1432&#8211;1481), 1480, oil on canvas, 69,9 &#215; 52,1 cm; source: National Gallery London, &#169; National Gallery London, http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/attributed-to-gentile-bellini-the-sultan-mehmet-ii." class="image-inline" src="./illustrationen/christian-allies-bilderordner/sultan-mehmet-ii.-img/@@images/image/thumb" title="Sultan Mehmed II. IMG">]</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/56533834" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Mahmud Pasha (d. 1474)</a>,<a href="#InsertNoteID_7">8</a> belonged to the Serbian family of Angelovi&#263;, who were also related to the Byzantine nobility.<a href="#InsertNoteID_8">9</a> The Ottomans did not use only the Byzantine aristocracy. Wherever they conquered a new region, they tried to conserve the old system of taxation and administration as well as integrate local elites into their own administration.<a href="#InsertNoteID_9">10</a> These families facilitated the transition to Ottoman rule, and in return, the Ottomans rewarded them handsomely. Some were forced into conversion, like the son of the Bulgarian czar Constantine II (c. 1370&#8211;1422), whom <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/1467021" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Bayezid I (1354&#8211;1403)</a> executed.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_10_marker11" title=" He was appointed the provincial governor of the newly conquered Samsun Sandjak in Northern Anatolia. Hammer-Purgstall, Osmanl&#305; Tarihi 1983, vol. I, p. 212."><a href="#InsertNoteID_10">11</a> However, some favoured the system for its material benefits. For instance, Bosnians, after converting en masse in 1463, petitioned that their children should nevertheless be eligible for the dev&#351;irme.<a href="#InsertNoteID_11">12</a> Some elite families also considered it beneficial to entrust their sons to the dev&#351;irme system, so that they could preserve their privileged status. Several Grand Viziers, such as Rum Mehmed Pasha (d. 1474/1475), Gedik Ahmed Pasha (d. 1482), <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/36831913" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Hersekz&#226;de Ahmed Pasha (1456&#8211;1517)</a>, Dukakinz&#226;de Ahmed Pasha (d. 1514), and Had&#305;m Sinan Pasha (d. 1517), were of aristocratic lineage. The most famous example is still <a class="external-link" data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/72204812" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Mehmed Sokolovi&#263; (ca. 1505&#8211;1579)">Mehmed Sokolovi&#263; (ca. 1505&#8211;1579)</a>, who increased his family's fortunes by placing family members in influential positions. His nepotism was such that he even reestablished the Pe&#263; Patriarchate in north-western <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4032571-4" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Kosovo</a> and appointed either his brother or nephew as its first Patriarch.<a href="#InsertNoteID_12">13</a> Finally, the Ottomans also kept young nobles captured in war to incorporate them into their administrative apparatus, such as Djigh&#226;l&#226;z&#226;de Yusuf Sinan Pasha (c. 1545&#8211;1605), a member of the aristocratic Genoese family Cicala. He and his father, a famous corsair in the service of the Habsburgs, were captured in 1561. Even though the father was ransomed, his son was not released and was instead inducted into the Ottoman palace school, Ender&#251;n.<a href="#InsertNoteID_13">14</a> He became an important statesman holding several offices including the Grand Vizirate (1596), and the Grand Admiralty (1591&#8211;1595, 1599&#8211;1604) as well as being twice a son-in-law to the Ottoman dynasty.<a href="#InsertNoteID_14">15</a>
Another way Christian nobles came into contact with the Ottoman world was through the Ottoman practice of forcing their Christian vassals to give their sons as hostages. There were two advantages for the Ottomans in doing this: first, they could use these young princes against their fathers if the latter neglected their obligations to the Ottomans. Second, these future Ottoman vassals, growing up in the Christian enclave of the Ottoman court, became familiar with Ottoman culture and administration. Four sons of Carlo Tocco I (1370&#8211;1429), the despot of Epirus, two sons of <a href="https://viaf.org/viaf/67258642/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Vlad Dracul (ca. 1390&#8211;1447)">Vlad Dracul (ca. 1390&#8211;1447)</a>, the voivode of Wallachia, (one of who became the infamous <a class="external-link" data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/62341705" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Vlad &#354;epe&#351;, Vlad the Impaler (ca. 1431&#8211;1476)">Vlad &#354;epe&#351;, Vlad the Impaler (ca. 1431&#8211;1476)</a><a class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/alliances-and-wars/en/mediainfo/vlad-tepes-c.-143120131476" title="Vlad &#354;epe&#351; (c. 1431&#8211;1476)">[<img alt="Portrait of Vlad &#354;epe&#351; (c. 1431&#8211;1476), Wood engraving, 15th century, unknown artist; source: University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin, http://lib.utexas.edu/exhibits/portraits/index.php?img=382." class="image-inline" src="./illustrationen/christian-allies-bilderordner/vlad-tepes-c.-143120131476-img/@@images/image/thumb" title="Vlad &#354;epe&#351; (c. 1431&#8211;1476) IMG">]</a>, on whom the literary figure of Dracula was based), and the Albanian national hero, <a class="external-link" data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/54941270" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="George Kastriota (ca. 1405&#8211;1468), known as Scanderbeg">George Kastriota (ca. 1405&#8211;1468), known as Scanderbeg</a><a class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/alliances-and-wars/en/mediainfo/georg-kastriota-known-as-scanderbeg-c.-140520131468" title="Georg Kastriota, known as Scanderbeg (c. 1405&#8211;1468)">[<img alt="Kupferstich ; s/w von Skanderbeg (Georg Castriota, 1405&#8211;1468), gestochen von Christoph Weigel. Quelle: Sculptura Historiarum Et Temporum Memoratrix. Das ist: Ged&#228;chtnu&#223;-H&#252;lfliche Bilder-Lust Der Merckw&#252;rdigsten Welt-Geschichten Aller Zeiten/ Von Erschaffung der Welt bi&#223; auf Gegenw&#228;rtige : Zu besondern Behuff und Belustigung ... Und nach der Jahr Rechnung leichte zu behalten/ In Einer sehr angenehmen Erfindung und bequemen Einrichtung Mit Gr&#252;ndlichen Erzehlungen Von neuen augefertiget / Weigel, Christoph. - N&#252;rnberg, 1726. - S. 236/237 Digitalisat: Pictura Paedagogica Online, stabile URL: http://www.bbf.dipf.de/cgi-opac/bil.pl?t_direct=x&amp;f_IDN=b0015873berl " class="image-inline" src="./illustrationen/die-osmanische-geschichte-suedosteuropas/skanderbeg-img/@@images/image/thumb" title="Georg Kastriota, bekannt als Skanderbeg (ca. 1405&#8211;1468) IMG">]</a>, along with his three brothers, are but a few examples. The last-mentioned, son of a local ruler in <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4001028-4" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Albania</a>, was raised in the Ottoman palace, converted to Islam and received his Muslim name, &#304;skender. After graduating from the palace school and proving himself to be an able commander, he was given a prebend in his native land, Albania, where he eventually turned against the Ottomans.<a href="#InsertNoteID_15">16</a>
While recruitment to the dev&#351;irme system entailed conversion, at the provincial level, Christians could find employment in the Ottoman military while preserving their religion.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_16_marker17" title=" There was, however, a tendency towards conversion over time, probably because of material advantages. See &#304;nalc&#305;k, Stefan Du&#351;an 1953, pp. 207&#8211;248."><a href="#InsertNoteID_16">17</a> They were generally used as auxiliary forces; however, they also existed within the more prestigious t&#238;m&#226;r system, a system of prebends under which land was granted for a limited term in exchange for military service.<a href="#InsertNoteID_17">18</a> Furthermore, the Ottoman army contained several contingents of their Christian vassals, situated on the left flank of the army where the Rumili askeri, "the <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4004334-4" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Balkan</a> soldiers", stood. These Christians fought well: at the Battle of <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4002075-7" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Ankara</a> (1402), the Serbian contingent under the Serbian Knez, <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/30336762" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Stefan Lazarevi&#263; (1374&#8211;1427)</a>, fought longer than most of the Muslim soldiers, who either changed sides or fled.<a href="#InsertNoteID_18">19</a>
There were Christians in the navy as well. We do not know much about the early Ottoman navy. According to the scattered information in western sources, however, we do know that the Ottomans employed Christians in their fleets as early as the 15th century. In 1416, the Venetian admiral <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/233246113" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Pietro Loredan (ca. 1482&#8211;1570)">Pietro Loredan (ca. 1482&#8211;1570)</a> encountered Genovese, Sicilians and Catalans among the captured Ottoman sailors.<a href="#InsertNoteID_19">20</a> One can find more examples among the Ottoman corsairs in <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4042482-0" rel="noopener" target="_blank">North Africa</a>. Operating between two civilizations, mutatis mutandis, these frontier warriors resembled the early Ottoman ghaz&#238;s<a href="#InsertNoteID_20">21</a> because of their tolerant nature and the cosmopolitan environment in which they operated. They did not hesitate to employ the poor but skilled seamen of the Western <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4039693-9" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Mediterranean islands</a>, especially <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4051686-6" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sardinia</a> and <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4032527-1" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Corsica</a>, who had no other opportunity to earn a living than by turning to piracy.<a href="#InsertNoteID_21">22</a> One of the most famous of these corsairs, <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/28283732" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Giovanni Dionigi Galeni (1519&#8211;1587), known as Ulu&#231; (K&#305;l&#305;&#231;) 'Al&#238; Pasha</a>, was the son of a Calabrese fisherman. Initially captured by the corsairs, he rose among their ranks and ended his brilliant career as the Ottoman Grand Admiral (1571&#8211;1587).<a href="#InsertNoteID_22">23</a>
The Ottomans not only used Christians as soldiers, but also relied on their military, diplomatic, cultural and linguistic expertise. One good example of such reliance can be observed in the Ottoman Arsenal. The Ottomans, in a pragmatic way, chose to rely almost exclusively on Christian expertise in naval affairs. Some of these Christians were slaves and the Ottomans were reluctant to enfranchise them, aware of their contribution. Among those slaves, some converted and started families with local women. As for those who remained Christian, the Ottomans built a lodging named Calabria Nuova.<a href="#InsertNoteID_23">24</a> The Venetians, the main rivals of the Ottomans in <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4196563-2" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Levantine</a> waters, seriously considered ransoming these slaves, who constituted "the backbone of their [Ottomans'] naval force".<a href="#InsertNoteID_24">25</a> Furthermore, many Christians, mostly Greeks from the <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4084739-1" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Aegean islands</a> under Venetian control, voluntarily served in the Ottoman Arsenal, much to the dismay of the Venetians. The latter went to great lengths to prevent the exodus of these poor Christians into the Ottoman service, without success.
The Ottomans employed Christians for their technical expertise in the army as well. A number of German, Hungarian, Slavic, French, Venetian, Genoese, Spanish, Sicilian, and English military experts such as Master Orban (d. 1453), "the Hungarian", and J&#246;rg of N&#252;rnberg served in the Ottoman army and helped the Ottomans in catching up with the new European military technology in firearms and cannonry.<a href="#InsertNoteID_25">26</a> These foreigners played an even more important part in <a data-class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/alliances-and-wars/en/threads/europe-on-the-road/journey-and-technology-knowhow-transfer/journey-and-technology-knowhow-transfer" rel="noopener" target="_blank">technology transfer</a> in later centuries, when military reform became the most important concern for the Ottomans.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_26_marker27" title=" For instance, Comte de Bonneval was instrumental in the westernization of education in the Ottoman Empire. He played an important role in the establishment of the College of Mathematics, Hendeseh&#226;ne, in 1734, the preparation of its modern curriculum and the translation of important works on military science such as Memorie della guerra by Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609&#8211;1680). Ad&#305;var, La science 1939, pp. 143&#8211;144."><a href="#InsertNoteID_26">27</a> 
Furthermore, the Ottoman palace at times employed a modest number of Christian scientists and artists. Mehmed II, termed by A.D. Mordtmann an "Ost-West Mensch" ("East-West man")<a href="#InsertNoteID_27">28</a>, for instance, showed genuine interest in European sciences and culture and employed renowned Christians in his palace: the geographers <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/89860241" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Georgios Amyrutzes (1400&#8211;1470)</a> and his son Mehmed Bey, the archaeologist<a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/120696433" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title=" Cyriacus of Ancona (ca. 1391&#8211;1452)"> Cyriacus of Ancona (ca. 1391&#8211;1452)</a>, the historians <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/210998499" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Michael Critoboulos of Imbros (ca. 1410&#8211;ca. 1470)">Michael Critoboulos of Imbros (ca. 1410&#8211;ca. 1470)</a> and <a class="external-link" data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/38314524" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Vincento G. Mario Angiolello (ca. 1451/1452&#8211;1525)">Vincento G. Mario Angiolello (ca. 1451/1452&#8211;1525)</a>, the painter <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/12275353" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Gentile Bellini (ca. 1429&#8211;1507)">Gentile Bellini (ca. 1429&#8211;1507)</a> and the sculptor <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/61468980" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Matteo de' Pasti (d. 1467)</a>.<a href="#InsertNoteID_28">29</a> Finally, the Ottomans also benefited from the linguistic and cultural expertise of their Christian subjects and employed them as translators and diplomats.<a href="#InsertNoteID_29">30</a> 
Interestingly enough, there were Europeans outside the Ottoman administrative system who enjoyed considerable influence in the Ottoman capital,<a href="#InsertNoteID_30">31</a> for example <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/74651632" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Andrea Gritti (1455&#8211;1538)</a> and <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/62357104" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Alvise (Ludovico) Gritti (1480&#8211;1535)</a>.<a href="#InsertNoteID_31">32</a> The former, before becoming a celebrated general and the Doge of <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4062501-1" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Venice</a> (r. 1523&#8211;1538), was a grain merchant in <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4073697-0" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Constantinople</a>, where he established crucial contacts with the Ottoman administration. The career of one of his three illegitimate sons, Alvise Gritti, the famous Beyo&#287;lu ("the son of the Doge"), is even more interesting. His fortunes rose to the extent that he befriended both <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/89743257" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Suleyman I (1494&#8211;1566)</a> and his powerful Grand Vizier, <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/1576564" title="&#304;brahim Pasha (ca. 1493&#8211;1536)">&#304;brahim Pasha (ca. 1493&#8211;1536)</a>, and tried to have himself crowned King of <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4078541-5" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Hungary</a> by the former's hands. Even though he was murdered by his rivals before he succeeded in his ambitions, he was not the last of his kind. Several other Christians enjoyed tremendous influence in Constantinople: fugitive nobles such as Comte <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/19812753" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, also known as Humbarac&#305; Ahmed Pasha (1675&#8211;1747)</a>, and <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/22267169" rel="noopener" target="_blank">T&#246;k&#246;ly Imre (1657&#8211;1705)</a>, military experts such as Baron <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/95232432" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Fran&#231;ois de Tott (1733&#8211;1793)</a> and Graf <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/98817698" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Helmuth von Moltke (1800&#8211;1891)</a><a class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/alliances-and-wars/en/mediainfo/graf-helmuth-von-moltke-180020131891" title="Helmuth von Moltke (1800&#8211;1891)">[<img alt="Portrait of Graf Helmuth von Moltke (1800&#8211;1891), 19th century, unknown artist; source: Duyckinick, Evert A.: Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America, New York 1873; University of Texas Libraries, Portrait Gallery, http://lib.utexas.edu/exhibits/portraits/index.php?img=276. " class="image-inline" src="./illustrationen/christian-allies-bilderordner/graf-helmuth-von-moltke-180020131891/@@images/image/thumb" title="Graf Helmuth von Moltke (1800&#8211;1891) IMG">]</a>, and exiled monarchs such as the Swedish king <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/51697993" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Charles XII of Sweden (1682&#8211;1718)">Charles XII (1682&#8211;1718)</a>, who took refuge in Constantinople after his defeat by the Russians at Poltava (1709).
The employment of Christians facilitated the transfer of information, ideas and technologies between Europe and the Ottomans. The <a data-class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/alliances-and-wars/en/threads/theories-and-methods/knowledge-transfer/veronika-lipphardt-david-ludwig-knowledge-transfer-and-science-transfer" rel="noopener" target="_blank">transfer of scientific knowledge</a> from <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4015701-5" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Europe</a> to the Ottoman Empire and vice versa was limited to a few works such as the famous map of <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/56747782" rel="noopener" target="_blank">P&#238;r&#238; Re'&#238;s (1470&#8211;1554/1555)</a>,<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_32_marker33" title=" A sailor, cartographer and author, P&#238;r&#238; Re'&#238;s drew an astonishingly accurate world map in 1513 which included the latest discoveries in the New World. Only part of it has survived until today. He used five European maps, one of which was drawn by Columbus himself. See Soucek, Piri Reis 1992."><a href="#InsertNoteID_32">33</a> works of Mustafa Fayz&#238;,<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_33_marker34" title=" Res&#226;'il al-M&#252;shfiyye f&#238; Emr&#226;z al-M&#252;shkile. The third volume of the work treats syphilis, relying on the works of the Veronese physician, Girolamo Fracastro (1483&#8211;1553), and the fifth volume cites 16th-century European scientists such as Luis Mercado (c. 1525&#8211;1611) and Antonio Fonseca. See Ad&#305;var, La science 1939, pp. 98&#8211;99."><a href="#InsertNoteID_33">34</a> <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/26051046" rel="noopener" target="_blank">K&#226;tib &#199;elebi (1609&#8211;1657)</a>,<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_34_marker35" title=" Djih&#226;nn&#252;m&#226;. K&#226;tib &#199;elebi, a.k.a. H&#226;dj&#238; Hal&#238;fe, relied on a number of Western works such as Atlas minor Gerardi Mercatoris A. S. Hondio plurimis aenis auctus atque illustratus, Arnheim 1621, Introductio geographica tam vetera quam nova by Philippus Cluverius (1580&#8211;1622), and Fabrica mundi by a certain Lorenzo. Ad&#305;var, La science 1939, pp. 110&#8211;112; G&#246;kyay, K&#226;tib &#199;elebi 1960&#8211;2005."><a href="#InsertNoteID_34">35</a> and Vas&#238;m 'Abbas,<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_35_marker36" title=" In his D&#252;st&#251;r al-Vas&#238;m f&#238; T&#305;bb al-Ced&#238;d ve al-kad&#238;m, he accepts ideas of Girolamo Fracastro (1478&#8211;1553), Thomas Sydenham (1624&#8211;1689) and Guillaume de Baillou (1538&#8211;1616)."><a href="#InsertNoteID_35">36</a> as well as a number of translations of European sources.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_36_marker37" title=" K&#226;tib &#199;elebi translated Atlas Minor (Lev&#226;mi' al-n&#251;r f&#238; zulm&#226;t Atlas Min&#251;r) with a number of marginal comments. G&#246;kyay, K&#226;tib &#199;elebi 1960&#8211;2005. Another geographer, Bekir bin Behr&#226;m al D&#305;ma&#351;k&#238;, translated Joan Blaeu's (1596&#8211;1673) Atlas Major seu cosmographia blaeuiana qua solum, salem, coelum accuratissime describuntur, Amsterdam 1662 (Nusret al-&#304;sl&#226;m ve al-sur&#251;r f&#236; tahr&#238;r Atlas mayor) which mentioned Copernican heliocentrism for the first time in the Ottoman Empire, albeit very briefly. Ad&#305;var, La Science 1939, pp. 121&#8211;123. During the Tulip Era (1718&#8211;1730), the reform-minded Nev&#351;ehirli &#304;br&#226;h&#238;m Pasha (c. 1662&#8211;1730) created a commission to translate European works. One of its 25 members was Es'ad bin 'Al&#238; of Janina, who knew Greek and some Latin. He translated Aristotle's Physics (Kutub al-Tamaniya li Aristo), in the introduction of which he showed familiarity with Christian authors such as Albertus Magnus (1200&#8211;1280), Johannes Scotus Eriugena (c. 815&#8211;c. 877) and Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225&#8211;1274). Ad&#305;var, La science 1939, pp. 126&#8211;127. The founder of the printing press, &#304;br&#226;h&#238;m M&#252;teferrika, also made translations from Latin. He translated several excerpts from Purchotio's (1651&#8211;1734) Institutiones philosophicae ad faciliorem veterum ac recentiorum philosophorum, lectionem comparata, Paris 1695, which mentions the heliocentric system, as well as Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle's (1657&#8211;1757) Th&#233;orie des tourbillons cart&#233;siens, Paris 1752. He added these excerpts to his publication of Djih&#226;nn&#252;m&#226;. Ad&#305;var, La science 1939, pp. 134&#8211;135. An Ottoman physician named 'Abd al-'Az&#238;z translated Herman Boerhaave's (1668&#8211;1738) Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis, Leiden 1709 from French, while another, Osm&#226;n bin 'Abd al-Rahman, translated Pietro Andrea Mattioli's (1501&#8211;1577) Materia medica. Ad&#305;var, La science 1939, p. 148. Ottoman Christians working at foreign embassies were also important in translation efforts. Bedros Baronyan, an Armenian and dragoman for the Dutch embassy, translated Jacques Robbes's La m&#233;thode pour apprendre facilement la g&#233;ographie (Ris&#226;le-yi Cograf&#238;yye). Ad&#305;var, La science 1939, p. 136."><a href="#InsertNoteID_36">37</a> Therefore, Christians only played a minor role in this limited transfer until the second half of the 18th century, when European culture and sciences began to penetrate profoundly into the Ottoman Empire.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_37_marker38" title=" K&#226;tib &#199;elebi resorted to the help of Sheykh Mehmed Ikhl&#226;s&#238;, a renegade French priest who was well versed in geography, while writing Djih&#226;nn&#252;m&#226; and translating works from Latin. G&#246;kyay, K&#226;tib &#199;elebi 1960&#8211;2005. There were some Christians within the Ottoman bureaucracy who were familiar with the European sciences. One of the Ottoman dragomans, a Greek of Chios, Alexandre Mavrocordatos (c. 1636&#8211;1709) finished his medical studies at the University of Padua in 1664. There he wrote a thesis concerning the role of the lungs in the circulation of the blood, entitled Pneumaticon instrumentum circulandi sanguinis, Bologna 1664. He was among the Ottoman delegates that signed the Treaty of Carlowitz in 1699 and was one of the most influential figures of his time. Nevertheless, he seems to have had no direct impact on the development of medicine in the Ottoman Empire."><a href="#InsertNoteID_37">38</a> Before that date, the actual contribution of Christians was rather to facilitate the direct transfer of European technology, including items of a non-military nature such as the printing press,<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_38_marker39" title=" The printing press was already in use by non-Muslims such as Jews, Greeks and Armenians, but it was first used to print books in the Arabic alphabet by &#304;br&#226;h&#238;m M&#252;teferrika, a Transylvanian convert. Kut et al., Matba'a 1960&#8211;2005. M&#252;teferrika advocated reform in the Ottoman army and preferred to print books of a secular nature on language, history, geography, and the natural and physical sciences, including, not surprisingly, several works by K&#226;tib &#199;elebi. M&#252;teferrika himself was also a geographer and cartographer who prepared a number of maps, most of which he printed. Berkes, Ibr&#226;h&#238;m M&#252;teferrika 1960&#8211;2005."><a href="#InsertNoteID_38">39</a> thanks to their familiarity with Western ideas and innovations.
<h2>Ottoman Alliances with the Christian States</h2>
The idea that the Ottomans were a constant threat to the European states is based on two fallacies. One is the a priori supposition that two alternative cultural entities need definitely clash; therefore, Ottomans must have been in constant conflict with Christian Europe. This assertion can hardly be proven by historical facts, and recent works stress the fact that the Ottomans both cooperated and competed with their Christian rivals.<a href="#InsertNoteID_39">40</a> The transfer of people, ideas, technologies, and goods, not to mention military alliances and commercial treaties, was the norm most of the time. Even between the most fervent rivals, a mutual understanding existed to a certain extent.
The Ottomans had a "Grand Strategy" when shaping their foreign policy. Documents in the Ottoman archives concerning information-gathering, military provisioning, and strategic planning show how careful the Ottomans were when it came to assessing the capabilities and logistic impediments as well as the possible benefits of military action.<a href="#InsertNoteID_40">41</a> These calculations established the rational basis of Ottoman foreign policy, rather than one governed by cultural or religious convictions. Indeed, the same held true for Europeans. Not only were they divided among themselves, which hindered concerted action against the Ottomans, but they also sought Ottoman diplomatic and military assistance, seeking their own interests at the expense of the Universitas Christiana.
The second fallacy is not recognizing the Ottoman impact on European diplomacy. Since the Ottomans had a different religion and culture, and an alternative type of government (i.e. <a href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/alliances-and-wars/en/threads/backgrounds/european-encounters/rolando-minuti-oriental-despotism" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Oriental Despotism">despotism</a>),<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_41_marker42" title=' Machiavelli, Il Principe 1891, pp. 200&#8211;201; Valensi, The Birth of the Despot 1993; &#304;nalc&#305;k, Comments on "Sultanism" 1992.'><a href="#InsertNoteID_41">42</a> they were not considered part of Europe, and their role in European diplomatic history was played down. This attitude has been repeatedly criticized by some historians.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_42_marker43" title=" Pfeffermann, Die Zusammenarbeit 1946; Montes, Franceses 1951; Galati, Ottoman Imperialism 1959; &#304;nalc&#305;k, The Turkish Impact 1974; Setton, The Papacy and the Levant 1976; &#304;nalc&#305;k, The Ottoman Turks 1989; Setton, Venice 1991; Kumrular, El Imperio Otomano 2003; Kumrular, Carlos V 2005; &#304;nalc&#305;k, Turkey and Europe 2006."><a href="#InsertNoteID_42">43</a> The Ottomans tried to represent themselves as Europeans, especially when they sought legitimacy in the eyes of their European subjects and reputation among other European states. Some Ottoman Sultans aspired to and perhaps even believed themselves to be Roman Caesars, Kayser-i Rum. The conqueror of Constantinople, Mehmed II, did not hesitate to consider the propaganda that linked the Ottoman and the Komnenos dynasties. Considering himself the true heir to the Roman throne after 1453, he finished off the last remaining enclaves of Byzantine power in <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4045064-8" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Morea</a> and <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4106551-7" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Trebizond</a>. In 1532, Suleyman I responded to the coronation of <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/88598818" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Emperor Charles V (1500&#8211;1558)">Charles V (r. 1519&#8211;1556)</a> in <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4007616-7" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Bologna</a> two years earlier by wearing a European-style crown and enjoying European-fashion military parades, with European envoys at his side, in <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4005411-1" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Belgrade</a> rather than Constantinople.<a href="#InsertNoteID_43">44</a> This was obviously part of his propaganda war against the universalist claims of the Habsburg Emperor, to whom the Ottoman chancellery delegated only the title kral ("king"), in total rejection of his imperial status.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_44_marker45" title=" &quot;roy d'Hispaignes et des terres d&#233;pendantes audict Hispaignes&quot;, Bacqu&#233;-Grammont, Autour d'une correspondance 1983, p. 234 or &quot;Siz ki vil&#226;yet-i &#304;spanye ve ana t&#226;'bi olan yerlerin kral&#305; Karlo&quot;, La Biblioth&#232;que Nationale, Paris, Suppl&#233;ment Turc, No: 816, cited by G&#246;kbilgin, T&#252;rk&#231;e Belgeler Kolleksiyonu 1968&#8211;1971, p. 115. See also &#193;goston, Politischer Pragmatismus 2005."><a href="#InsertNoteID_44">45</a>
Still, the fact that the Ottomans considered themselves a part of European diplomacy does not suffice to prove that they actually were so. The author does not intend to overlook either the negative image of the Ottomans among the Christians, who considered their Muslim neighbours a constant menace, or the consequent problem of reputation that a Christian ruler would face in an open alliance with the infidel Ottoman Sultan, the greatest threat to Christianity. The constant Ottoman expansion in Europe up to the mid-16th century was responsible for this negative image. The fall of Christian bastions such as Constantinople (1453), Belgrade (1521), <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4049859-1" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Rhodes</a> (1522), <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4137173-2" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Buda </a>(1541) and <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4079596-2" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Cyprus</a> (1571) as well as the siege of others such as <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4066009-6" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Vienna</a> (1529) and <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4037257-1" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Malta</a> (1565) fuelled distrust and fear among the Christians.
Obviously, this negative image had political consequences; it resulted in a number of Crusade expeditions which did not bring military success until 1683, with the notable exception of Lepanto (1571), and hindered, to a certain extent, diplomatic relations between the Ottomans and Christians. However, these obstacles were by no means decisively divisive and irremediable. Christian rulers who realized that the Ottomans could be used against their regional rivals (a long list including Popes) found ways to enter into an alliance with the "infidel", at times at the cost of their own reputation at home. This was especially true of distant Christian states such as <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4018145-5" rel="noopener" target="_blank">France</a>, <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4014770-8" rel="noopener" target="_blank">England</a>, the <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4042203-3" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Netherlands</a> and <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4077258-5" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sweden</a>; the farther the threat, the lesser the fear. Even those under the constant threat of an Ottoman invasion, say, Italian states in the 15th century, asked for Ottoman help against their regional rivals. In short, in spite of the afore-mentioned obstacles set by perception, rhetoric and propaganda, the Ottomans found themselves part of European diplomacy; a special one for sure, but still a part.
Religious differences created a problem of reputation for the Ottoman Sultans as well. Despite the rational character of Ottoman foreign policy, an overt alliance with infidels still had to be religiously justified. According to some Muslim jurists, there could be peace between a Christian and a Muslim ruler as long as the former recognized the overlordship of the latter and paid tribute to him.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_45_marker46" title=" Under Islamic law, the world is divided into two spheres: the first, D&#226;r al-Isl&#226;m (&quot;the Abode of Islam&quot;), is the lands that are, or were at one point, under Muslim government. The second, D&#226;r al-H&#226;rb (&quot;the Abode of War&quot;), is the lands yet to be conquered. Every Muslim ruler is required to transform D&#226;r al-H&#226;rb into D&#226;r al-Isl&#226;m by conquest; in theory, therefore, permanent peaceful relations between Muslim and Christian states cannot exist. There is, however, a third category, recognized only by some jurists, which seemed to suit the Ottoman interests better: D&#226;r al-'Ahd (&quot;the Abode of the Covenant&quot;), a category between D&#226;r al-Isl&#226;m and D&#226;r al-H&#226;rb, consists of lands which pass into the hands of Muslims by an agreement. In Ottoman practice, an 'am&#226;n (a safe-conduct) confirmed by an 'ahdn&#226;me (imperial charter) and drawn up in the form of an imperial diploma, berat was granted to the Christian rulers. Such a ruler had to pay a tribute, haradj, and maintain his relations with other states in total harmony with those of the Ottomans. In exchange, the Sultan promised not to colonize these lands with Muslims, granted free trade rights, capitulations, as a result of which his subjects would enjoy security and the status of a musta'min (protected, somebody who enjoys the privileges of an 'am&#226;n) rather than a harb&#238; (enemy alien, infidel). &#304;nalc&#305;k, &#304;mtiy&#226;z&#226;t 1960&#8211;2005. Idem, D&#226;r al-'Ahd 1960&#8211;2005."><a href="#InsertNoteID_45">46</a> The Ottomans legalized their vassalage agreements and political alliances with Christian powers until the 19th century, based on this formula. Such agreements were in theory not between equal powers, but rather unilateral concessions on behalf of the Muslim Ruler, i.e. the Ottoman Sultan. The Christian side's submission to the Sultan was explicitly stipulated in the clauses of the 'ahdn&#226;mes.<a href="#InsertNoteID_46">47</a> Still, there were several exceptions to this claim of superiority, not only in early Ottoman history, as shown by alliances made on a basis of equality and marriages between the Ottomans and other Christian dynasties,<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_47_marker48" title=" During the first century and a half of their history, the Ottomans married princesses from other dynasties, some of whom were Christians, in order to cement political alliances and increase their reputation, a policy which they dropped after 1450. A list of Sultans' Christian parents-in-law demonstrates the success of this policy: Byzantine Emperor Ioannes VI Kantakouzenos (1292&#8211;1383), Bulgarian Tsar of Trnovo, Ivan Shishman (c. 1350/1351&#8211;1395), Countess of Salona, Serbian Knezs (Prince) Stefan Lazarevi&#263; (1374&#8211;1427) and George Brankovi&#263; (1377&#8211;1456), Voivoda (Prince) of Wallachia Mircea I (1355&#8211;1418) and Despot Carlo Tocco I of Ionnina (d. 1429). See Imber, The Ottoman Empire 2002, pp. 92&#8211;94."><a href="#InsertNoteID_47">48</a> but also in the heyday of the Ottoman Empire, such as the Treaty of Zsitvatorok (1606),<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_48_marker49" title=" Digitalized peace treaty of Zitvatoruk, 11/11/1606, provided by the Institute of European History, Project Europ&#228;ische Friedensvertr&#228;ge der Vormoderne [03/12/2010]. "><a href="#InsertNoteID_48">49</a> which recognized the Habsburg Emperor as the equal of the Ottoman Sultan.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_49_marker50" title=" The previous treaties in the 16th century rejected assigning such status to the Habsburg Emperor and established his status as equal to that of the Grand Vizier."><a href="#InsertNoteID_49">50</a>
The early Ottomans pursued a multi-faceted policy towards the <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4009256-2" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Byzantine Empire</a>. Instead of fighting them all the time, the Ottomans contracted alliances with the Byzantine emperors, especially during civil wars, a policy which helped Ottoman raiders to familiarize themselves with the terrain of <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4078277-3" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Thrace</a>, and in the end, conquer it. As the Ottomans conquered all the Byzantine territories save Constantinople, they reduced the Byzantine emperors to sending contingents for the Ottoman army and sometimes even commanding them in person. The Byzantines also provided diplomatic services to the Ottomans; it was the Byzantine emperor, <a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/12191147" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="John V Paleologos (1332&#8211;1391)">John V Paleologos (1332&#8211;1391)</a> who went to Phocaea twice and paid 100,000 ducats to the Genoese to ransom Orkhan's (d. 1362) son, Halil (1347&#8211;1362), in 1356. Furthermore, they paid tribute to the Ottomans; <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/46792672" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Manuel II Paleologos (1350&#8211;1425)">Manuel II (1350&#8211;1425)</a> even delivered it personally in the Ottoman capital in 1399. The Ottoman Sultans, such as <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/89105909" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Murad I (1326&#8211;1389)</a>, who accompanied his stepmother Theodora Kantakouzenos (b. 1332), a Byzantine princess, in 1347, and <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/10789830" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Mehmed I (1382&#8211;1421)</a>, who passed from Anatolia to Thrace via the <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4007830-9" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Bosporus</a>, visited Constantinople as well. Byzantine emperors also meddled with Ottoman politics, interfered in Ottoman civil wars, and harboured rebellious Ottoman princes and pretenders in order to use them as political leverage. Ironically, an Ottoman prince, Orhan (d. 1453), died defending Constantinople against the Ottomans in 1453. Finally, we should add the Byzantine reluctance to endorse the Union of Churches as laid down by the Council of <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4004617-5" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Basel</a>-<a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4092153-0" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Ferrara</a>-<a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4017581-9" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Florence</a> (1431&#8211;1445). As the last Megas Doux ("Grand Duke"), Loukas Notaras (d. 1453) noted, the Byzantines preferred the Muslim turban in Constantinople to the Latin mitre. The Byzantine Church seemed to have benefited from Ottoman rule, under which it operated relatively freely. In 1454, Mehmed II appointed the chief enemy of the Union, <a class="external-link" data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/316421957" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="(ca. 1400&#8211;ca. 1473)">Georgios Scholarios (ca. 1400&#8211;ca. 1473)</a>, as the Patriarch of Constantinople, Gennadios II, upon whom rested not only ecclesiastical, but also civil authority (e.g. collecting taxes, solving legal disputes, etc.) over the Roman-Orthodox millet in the Empire. He was to act as an intermediary between the Ottoman administration and the Orthodox community. Under the structure of the Orthodox Church, therefore, the Byzantine elites could hold on to their privileged status.<a href="#InsertNoteID_50">51</a> Furthermore, merchants and bankers, such as Mikhael Kantakouzenos in the 16th century, amassed fortunes, while Graecophone Phanariot<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_51_marker52" title=" Phanariot is a term referring to the Greek-speaking elite that resided in the Phanar quarter of Constantinople. They held important political and social positions, especially after the 17th century, until the Greek War of Independence in 1821. They were originally employed by the Ottomans as dragomans (translators), and later as governors of Moldavia and Wallachia, the semi-autonomous Ottoman provinces beyond the Danube. Philliou, Phanariots 2009."><a href="#InsertNoteID_51">52</a> families managed to have themselves appointed as hospodars ("governor") and replaced the local voivodas in Wallachia and <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4039967-9" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Moldavia</a> in the 18th century. 
The Ottomans found further allies in the Balkans. The politically fragmented Balkans helped the Ottomans' advance by giving them the opportunity to play off one Christian power against another. The latter not only allied with the Ottomans, but also invited them to intervene in their civil wars. The Ottomans first established a bond of vassalage and requested military contingents as well as a tribute before gradually incorporating these principalities and their ruling elites into the Empire.<a href="#InsertNoteID_52">53</a> By the end of the 14th century, the Ottomans had established a solid network of vassals, which allowed them to consolidate their rule in the Balkans. Bayezid I gathered all his vassals in Serez in 1393, some of whom, like Stefan Lazarevi&#263; (1374&#8211;1427), fought with the Ottomans against the crusaders in 1396. Even during the eleven-year interregnum (1402&#8211;1413) following the Ottoman defeat against the Tim&#251;r&#238;s, most of them remained loyal to the Ottomans. There were also vassal states that were never fully incorporated into the empire and kept their autonomy. The Republic of Ragusa (Ott. Dubrovnik), the Danubian principalities Wallachia and Moldavia, (Ott. Efl&#226;k and Bo&#287;d&#226;n, together also known as Memleketeyn), and the kingdom of <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4054835-1" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Transylvania</a> (Ott. Erdel) were the most important ones. <a href="#InsertNoteID_53">54</a> These had varying obligations to the Ottoman Empire: they provided resources, raw materials, agricultural products and soldiers, paid tributes, gathered information, and functioned as a buffer between the Ottomans and their Christian rivals. To strengthen the control over their vassals, the Ottomans attached a janissary regiment to their entourage, preserved the final word in their election, played local factions off against each other and fortified strategic positions, the garrisons of which were paid by the locals. To a certain extent, the system worked, even though the Ottomans had to endure their vassals' volte-face during critical times such as the Long War of 1593&#8211;1606.
The Ottomans came into contact with the Italian maritime states when they reached the Aegean shore, where the Genoese and the Venetians maintained several colonies. Rivalry between these two and the Byzantines allowed the Ottomans to ally with both <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4020185-5" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Genoa</a> and Venice. The earliest Ottoman-Genoese alliance against the Byzantines and the Venetians dates back to the mid-14th century. The first treaty regulating matters such as commercial rights and the exchange of captives was signed in 1387.<a href="#InsertNoteID_54">55</a> The Genoese transported Ottoman troops across the <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4011051-5" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Dardanelles</a> in 1402, when the latter were fleeing from the approaching army of <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/63984707" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Tim&#251;r (1336&#8211;1405)</a>, in 1422, and again in 1444, during one of the most difficult episodes of Ottoman history, when the Ottoman armies were stuck in Anatolia while a crusader army was approaching and frontier warlords were defying central authority.<a href="#InsertNoteID_55">56</a> The Genoese colony even took the liberty of offering to carve the insignia of <a class="external-link" data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/40320065" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Murad II (ca. 1403&#8211;1451)">Murad II (ca. 1403&#8211;1451)</a> on the Christea Turris, the Genoese tower in the citadel of Galata, facing Constantinople, in exchange for construction material.<a href="#InsertNoteID_56">57</a>
Despite the inevitable political tension in Ottoman-Venetian relations and the several wars fought between them, peace and cooperation generally prevailed.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_57_marker58" title=" Pedani, Dalla frontiera al confine 2002, p. 9. According to Preto, between 1453 and 1797 the two sides fought for a total of 61 years as opposed to 273 when they did not cited by Capponi, Victory of the West 2006, p. 61."><a href="#InsertNoteID_57">58</a> The Ottoman expansion and the simultaneous Venetian contraction in the Eastern <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4074895-9" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Mediterranean</a> did not prevent the two sides from cooperating. The Venetians were the first state to establish permanent diplomatic relations with the Ottoman Empire. Both sides signed several treaties and exchanged several ambassadors.<a href="#InsertNoteID_58">59</a> Venice had a unique position in the West until the 16th century: relying on a network of diplomatic representatives, spies and merchants in several Ottoman cities, Venice was the only source for states trying to acquire information regarding the Ottomans.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_59_marker60" title=" Preto, I Servizi Segreti 1994, pp. 247&#8211;260; Kissling, Venezia come centro di informazioni 1977; Mantran, Venise, centre d'informations 1977; Hassiotis, Venezia e i domini veneziani 1977."><a href="#InsertNoteID_59">60</a> To increase the quality of their intelligence and diplomatic representation, the Venetians even established a language school, Giovani di Lingua, in the residence of their representative, bailo, in Constantinople in 1551.<a href="#InsertNoteID_60">61</a>
The possibility of military cooperation between the Ottomans and the Venetians also came to the fore. For instance, in July 1509, in the aftermath of the Battle of Agnadello, the Venetian Senate considered asking the Ottomans for military assistance against <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/88890786" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Louis XII of France (1462&#8211;1515)</a>.<a href="#InsertNoteID_61">62</a> The Venetians were repeatedly accused of inviting the Ottomans to Europe and criticized for not joining Holy Alliances against the Ottomans.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_62_marker63" title=' One of their diplomats, Pietro Zen (1453&#8211;1539) was reported to have celebrated the Ottoman victory in Mohacs (1526), by "building a fountain which pours wine in front of his house". Finlay, Al Servizio del Sultano 1984, pp. 78&#8211;118.'><a href="#InsertNoteID_62">63</a> Their ambivalent relationship with the Ottomans can probably be attributed to their reliance on trade with the Levant as well as Ottoman grain. This Venetian dependence and the reluctance to take up arms against the Ottomans could be the basic calculation behind the Ottomans' dispatch of an ambassador to Venice and demand for the surrender of Cyprus in 1570. Refusing the offer after serious debates in the Senate, the Venetians still did not join the Holy Alliance until the Habsburgs opened the Sicilian granaries to them. Moreover, despite the crushing Christian victory at Lepanto in 1571, the Venetians pushed for a prompt peace in 1573, accepting the loss of Cyprus, agreeing to pay a war indemnity, and leaving their allies frustrated. Finally, it should be added that both sides shared a common concern after the Portuguese arrived in the <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4026737-4" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Indian Ocean</a>, as the detour of spice trade routes affected them both.
To a lesser degree, other Italian states resorted to Ottoman assistance and used the Ottoman threat as leverage in diplomatic relations. Most of the proposed alliances failed to materialize because of logistical difficulties and the consequent problem of harmonizing military action. However, contemporaries still took the possibility of Ottoman involvement in the Italian Wars very seriously, and used it as leverage in diplomatic relations.
The Milanese considered the Ottomans a useful tool in fulfilling their diplomatic objectives in the late 14th and 15th centuries. In 1395, the dislike of the Duke of Milan, <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/64803882" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Gian Galeazzo Visconti (1351&#8211;1402)">Gian Galeazzo (1351&#8211;1402)</a>, for the French moved him to inform the Ottomans about the approaching crusader army, which included several leading French nobles,<a href="#InsertNoteID_63">64</a> while his grandson <a class="external-link" data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/89524548" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Filippo Maria Visconti (1392&#8211;1447)</a> tried to persuade the Ottomans to attack Venice in 1421.<a href="#InsertNoteID_64">65</a> <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/88653204" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Ludovico Sforza (1452&#8211;1508)</a>, in the last decade of the 15th century, sent several ambassadors to the Ottoman Sultan, and promised to fight against the Venetians in exchange for military assistance.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_65_marker66" title=" This alliance, too, failed to materialize, and Bayezid II (c. 1447/1448&#8211;1512), angry at Sforza's unfulfilled promises, executed one of his envoys. Longo, Annali Veneti 1843, vol. I, pp. 153, 169, 173, 209."><a href="#InsertNoteID_65">66</a>
The kings of Naples also developed good relations with the Ottomans. Starting from 1487, <a class="external-link" data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/13189178" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Ferdinand I of Naples (1423&#8211;1494)">Ferdinand I (1423&#8211;1494)</a>, in order to protect himself from the raids of the Ottomans along <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4041478-4" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Neapolitan</a> coasts, informed them about papal plans concerning the Ottoman prince <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/2618561" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Djem (1459&#8211;1495)</a>, at that time a hostage in <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4050471-2" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Rome</a>.<a href="#InsertNoteID_66">67</a> In 1489, there was an Ottoman envoy accompanying the Neapolitan diplomatic mission to France.<a href="#InsertNoteID_67">68</a> The Neapolitans also used their alliance with the Ottomans as a threat and announced it publicly in 1495, when they were worried about the French descent into <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4027833-5" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Italy</a>.<a href="#InsertNoteID_68">69</a> A Neapolitan ambassador even explicitly threatened the Venetians with inviting Ottoman soldiers to the Peninsula,<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_69_marker70" title=" Stefani et al., I Diarii di Sanuto 1879&#8211;1902, vol. II, p. 1313; Segre et al., I Diarii di Priuli 1912&#8211;38, vol. I, pp. 171, 195, 198."><a href="#InsertNoteID_69">70</a> and there were rumours in Venice that they offered <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4044150-7" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Otranto</a>, <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4078155-0" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Taranto</a> and <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4080536-0" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Brindisi</a> if the Ottomans could conquer Venetian territories in <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4002508-1" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Puglia</a> for them.<a href="#InsertNoteID_70">71</a> Even after the kingdom fell to foreign rule, both the aristocracy and the towns did not hesitate to call for Ottoman assistance when they felt oppressed.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_71_marker72" title=" AGS, E 1043, E 1309/22, E 1326/238, E 1326/240, E 1329/20; &#304;nalc&#305;k, The Ottoman Turks 1989, p. 337; Aubin, Terre d'Otrante 1992, pp. 469f."><a href="#InsertNoteID_71">72</a>
Furthermore, the Ottomans entertained friendly relations with the Duke of Mantua, <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/59186552" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Federico II Gonzaga (1500&#8211;1540)</a>,<a href="#InsertNoteID_72">73</a> invited <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/22935733" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy (1528&#8211;1580)">Emanuele Filiberto (1528&#8211;1580)</a>, the Duke of Savoy, to lay claims to Venetian Cyprus,<a href="#InsertNoteID_73">74</a> and considered an alliance with the Florentines against the Genoese by helping the rebellious Corsicans,<a href="#InsertNoteID_74">75</a> whose leader, <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/20571254" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sampiero de Bastelica (1498&#8211;1567)</a>, was lobbying in Constantinople at the time.<a href="#InsertNoteID_75">76</a> Even popes followed this practice and took up diplomatic relations with the Infidel Sultan.<a href="#InsertNoteID_76">77</a>
An especially effective alliance was that between France and the Ottomans.<a class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/alliances-and-wars/en/mediainfo/reception-of-the-french-ambassador-by-sultan-ahmed-iii-1724" title="Reception of the French ambassador by Sultan Ahmed III, 1724"><img alt="Jean-Baptiste van Mour (1671&#8211;1737), Reception of the French ambassador, Vicomte Jean-Baptiste Louis Picon D'Andrezel (1663&#8211;1727), by Sultan Ahmed III (1673&#8211;1736), 1724, oil on canvas; source: Mus&#233;e des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, &#169; Mus&#233;e des Beaux-Arts." class="image-inline" src="./illustrationen/christian-allies-bilderordner/reception-of-the-french-ambassador-by-sultan-ahmed-iii-1724-img/@@images/image/thumb" title="Reception of the French ambassador by Sultan Ahmed III, 1724 IMG"></a> French kings, in their capacity of Rex Christianissimus, had resorted to crusade propaganda and had almost undertaken one in 1495.<a href="#InsertNoteID_77">78</a> The rise of the Habsburgs in Europe and the capture of the French king <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/88805531" title="Francis I of France (1494&#8211;1547)">Francis I (1494&#8211;1547)</a> at the battle of <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4044970-1" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Pavia</a> (1525) initiated a long period of cooperation between the two states. Both sides exchanged intelligence, tried to develop a shared strategy and cooperated militarily. French forces helped the Ottomans at the siege of <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4073728-7" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Corfu</a> in 1537, while the Ottoman fleet wintered in <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4119669-7" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Toulon</a> in 1543 and 1544 after the failed siege of <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4075416-9" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Nice</a>,<a href="#InsertNoteID_78">79</a> and undertook joint military operations with the French fleet in the <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4061334-3" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Tyrrhenian</a> and <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4035721-1" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Ligurian Seas</a> in the 1550s. The Ottomans granted France capitulations in 1569,<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_79_marker80" title=" The 1536 treaty did not include trade capitulations. The surviving copy of it is nothing but a copy of the 1569 treaty. See Laurent, Les articles 1902."><a href="#InsertNoteID_79">80</a> and helped the election of a French prince, <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/59094779" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Henri III of France (1551&#8211;1589)">Henri de Valois (1551&#8211;1589)</a>, the future Henry III, to the throne of the Polish&#8211;Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1573.<a href="#InsertNoteID_80">81</a> Good relations continued in the next century, as both sides still had a common enemy in the Habsburgs. The war of 1683&#8211;1699 between the Ottomans and the Holy League of the Habsburgs, Venice, <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4046496-9" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Poland</a>, the <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4062404-3" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Papal States</a> and <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4076899-5" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Russia</a>, coincided with the war between France and the Habsburgs in 1688 and 1697. France also played the role of diplomatic middleman between the Ottomans and its Christian enemies. In 1724, it helped arrange a diplomatic treaty between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, while the French ambassador was to be the main protagonist during the negotiations for the Belgrade Treaty of 1739. Almost until Napoleon's invasion of <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4000556-2" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Egypt</a> in 1798, with some exceptions, the two states enjoyed a warm relationship.
One of the foremost objectives of the Ottoman Grand Strategy in Europe was to prevent a Holy Alliance. The hard-won battles of <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4107573-0" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Varna</a> (1444) and of Kosovo (1448), the defeat at Lepanto (1571), and the disastrous Polish&#8211;Ottoman War (1683&#8211;1699) proved the soundness of this policy. The Ottomans tried to keep Christian Europe divided; to this end, they not only sought political allies, but also promoted religious fragmentation in Europe. As soon as Protestantism became a political force and started to challenge the Habsburg hegemony in Europe, the Ottomans decided to take advantage of it. In the 16th century, they exchanged letters with Protestant factions in the <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/2035457-5" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Holy Roman Empire</a>,<a href="#InsertNoteID_81">82</a> France,<a href="#InsertNoteID_82">83</a> and the Low Countries.<a href="#InsertNoteID_83">84</a> They furthermore supported <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/59094245" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Henri IV de France (1553&#8211;1610)">Henri de Navarre's (future Henry IV, 1553&#8211;1610)</a> bid for the French throne and in 1577 promised to send the Ottoman fleet to the help of the French Protestants in the South (<a data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4071403-2" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Midi</a>).<a href="#InsertNoteID_84">85</a> The anti-Habsburg policies of <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/97107753" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Elizabeth I of England (1533&#8211;1603)">Elizabeth I (1533&#8211;1603)</a> also created an Anglo-Ottoman rapprochement, as a result of which England was given promises of military assistance and was awarded with a commercial treaty.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_85_marker86" title=" Burian, T&#252;rk-&#304;ngiliz M&#252;nasebetleri 1951, pp. 1&#8211;17; Skilliter, William Harborne 1977. For 1580 capitulations, see BOA, MD, 49/109; for talks of an alliance see BOA, MD, 19/667, and 64/213."><a href="#InsertNoteID_85">86</a> This cooperation continued in the 17th century as well. At the onset of the Thirty Years' War, delegations from the Bohemian and Hungarian Estates, as well as an envoy of the Calvinist <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/5086720" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Friedrich V of the Palatinate (1596&#8211;1632)</a>, pretender to the Bohemian throne, were in Constantinople seeking military assistance against the Habsburgs. Even though the Ottomans did not directly attack the Habsburg lands, they sent an ambassador to <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4076310-9" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Prague</a>, attacked Habsburgs' ally Poland, and encouraged their vassal, the Prince of Transylvania <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/34616772" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Bethlen G&#225;bor (1580&#8211;1629)</a>, to invade Habsburg territories.<a href="#InsertNoteID_86">87</a>
On the eastern front, the Ottomans entered into alliances and established bonds of vassalage with local warlords, some of whom were Christians. Pressurized by both the Ottomans and the Safav&#238;s, these warlords tried to preserve their independence by playing two powers off against each other, while, for the Ottomans, their cooperation was crucial for both diplomatic and military reasons during their wars with the Safav&#238;s.
With the emergence of the Eastern Question, and the problem of how to dismantle the Ottoman Empire without upsetting the fragile balance of power between the European states, the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire became an international problem. In its last century, the Ottoman Empire tried to preserve itself by playing one European power off against another, as well as receiving help in its modernization efforts. The Great Powers in turn fought for influence in Constantinople and, at least until 1878, tried to maintain the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire. To this end, in 1840 Russia and Britain intervened on behalf of the Ottomans against the rebellious governor of Egypt, <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/29512610" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Muhammad 'Al&#238; (1769&#8211;1849)</a>; France, Britain and <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4051687-8" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sardinia-Piedmont</a> fought against the Russians in the <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4033166-0" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Crimean</a> War (1853&#8211;1856); and the German chancellor <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/46772111" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Otto von Bismarck (1815&#8211;1898)</a> convened the <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4005728-8" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Berlin</a> Congress in 1878 in order to overturn Russia's unilateral gains following the 1877&#8211;1878 war. Finally, the increased German influence in the last years of the Empire persuaded the Ottomans to enter the World War.
Resident embassies that European powers established in Constantinople as well as other important cities were important centres of transfer which fostered trade by taking care of their merchants, provided their homeland with regular reports about not only political events, but also cultural and religious peculiarities of Ottoman society,<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_87_marker88" title=" Venetian relazioni relate a number of aspects of Ottoman culture and society, starting from the 16th century. Alb&#232;ri, Le Relazioni 1839&#8211;1863; Barozzi et al., Relazioni 1856&#8211;1878; Pedani, Costantinopoli 1996; Valensi, The Birth of the Despot 1993. In Venice, there was also an extensive body of literature devoted to the &quot;Turks&quot; which, increasingly after 1683, began to concentrate on social and cultural aspects, e.g. Donado, Giovanni Battista: Della Letteratura de' Turchi, Venetia 1688. Also see Soykut, Image of the &quot;Turk&quot; 2001, pp. 112&#8211;147."><a href="#InsertNoteID_87">88</a> established contacts with Ottoman subjects whom they employed in the embassies and fed the Ottomans with selective information about events and developments in Europe - needless to say, when and as far as this suited their diplomatic objectives. Some of their personnel developed an impressive familiarity with Ottoman culture and society, and penned important works in the 19th century. <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/95183401" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774&#8211;1856)</a><a class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/alliances-and-wars/en/mediainfo/joseph-von-hammer-purgstall-177420131856" title="Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774&#8211;1856)">[<img alt="Josef Kriehuber (1774&#8211;1856), portrait of Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774&#8211;1856), lithography (photographic reproduction), 1843, photographer: Peter Geymayer; source: private collection, wikimedia commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hammer_Purgstall.jpg. " class="image-inline" src="./illustrationen/christian-allies-bilderordner/joseph-von-hammer-purgstall-177420131856-img/@@images/image/thumb" title="Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774&#8211;1856) IMG">]</a>, an officer in the Austrian embassy in Constantinople, translated Ottoman manuscripts and wrote several books on Ottoman culture and history.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_88_marker89" title=" Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph von: Constantinopolis und der Bosporos, &#246;rtlich und geschichtlich beschrieben von Jos. von Hammer, Pest 1822, vol. 1&#8211;2; Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph von: Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches, Pest 1827&#8211;1835, vol. 1&#8211;10."><a href="#InsertNoteID_88">89</a> <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/52041154" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Ignatius Mouradgea d'Ohsson (1740&#8211;1807)</a>, an Ottoman Armenian in the service of the Swedish embassy, wrote extensively on the culture, religion, and administration of the Ottoman Empire.<a href="#InsertNoteID_89">90</a> His son <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/66600309" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Constantine Mouradgea d'Ohsson (1779&#8211;1851)">Constantine (1779&#8211;1851)</a> wrote works on the history of the Mongols and the peoples of the <a itemprop="url" class="external-geo-link" data-class="external-geo-link" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4030090-0" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Caucasus</a>.<span class="InsertNoteMarker" id="InsertNoteID_90_marker91" title=" d'Ohsson, Abraham Constantin Mouradgea: Histoire des Mongols: depuis Tchinguiz-Khan jusqu'&#224; Timour-Lang, Paris 1824; d'Ohsson, Abraham Constantin Mouradgea: Des peuples du Caucase et des pays au nord de la Mer Noire et de la Mer Caspienne, dans le dixi&#232;me si&#232;cle ou voyage d'Abou-al-Cassim, Paris 1828."><a href="#InsertNoteID_90">91</a>
Even though they did not establish resident embassies until the end of the 18th century, the Ottomans still made use of the open channels of diplomacy to acquire information about the Christian world.<a class="internal-link" href="https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/alliances-and-wars/en/mediainfo/sortie-de-lambassadeur-de-la-sublime-porte-1721" title="Sortie de l'ambassadeur de la Sublime Porte 1721"><img alt="Sortie de l'ambassadeur de la Sublime Porte 1721 IMG" class="image-inline" src="./illustrationen/christian-allies-bilderordner/sortie-de-lambassadeur-de-la-sublime-porte-1721-img/@@images/image/thumb" title="Sortie de l'ambassadeur de la Sublime Porte 1721 IMG"></a> In 1721, the Ottoman ambassador to France, <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/18027449" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Yirmisekiz Mehmed &#199;elebi (d. 1732)</a> was ordered not only to fulfil political goals, but also to obtain detailed information about France. In travel accounts (sefaretn&#226;me) written by the Ottoman ambassadors, which were quite popular reading among the Ottoman elite, there were details about not only government, the military and technology, but also the arts, culture, daily life, architecture, manners and fashions of Christian Europe. It was no coincidence that Mehmed &#199;elebi's son, Sa'&#238;d &#199;elebi (d. 1761), who accompanied him to France, later helped <a class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/22382427" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="&#304;brahim M&#252;teferrika (1674&#8211;1745)">&#304;brahim M&#252;teferrika's (1674&#8211;1745)</a> efforts to establish the printing press.
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
Christian participation in the Ottoman Empire, as well as Ottoman alliances with Christian powers, proved that pragmatism persuaded the Ottomans to make use of the Christians around them.
The Ottomans built their empire in northwestern Anatolia and the Balkans, where they found themselves encircled by their Christian subjects. This persuaded them to treat their Christian subjects relatively well and to establish a policy of appeasement in order to facilitate Ottoman rule (&#304;stim&#226;let). In their dhimmi ("protected") status, Christians in the Ottoman Empire generally enjoyed security and peace, at least until the 19th century. The Ottomans employed Christians and incorporated them into the Ottoman elite, which consisted of families from diverse ethno-religious backgrounds. In short, albeit a Muslim polity, the Ottomans were also one with many Christian subjects, whom they were determined to make use of. 
The Ottomans also developed a rational strategy when it came to dealing with Christian states. As an empire built in the Christian Balkans, the Ottomans' relations with their Christian counterparts did not entail irreconcilable conflict. Diplomatic alliances, military cooperation, and trade agreements created a modus vivendi between the Ottomans and Europe, under which ideas, goods, and technologies flowed with greater ease than previously thought possible. This flow gained unprecedented momentum in the 19th century, when the modernization/westernization efforts, which started with the military and were undertaken in an effort to halt the decline of the Empire vis-&#224;-vis its European counterparts, gradually encompassed all aspects of Ottoman administrative, cultural and societal routines. European administrative practices, political ideas, as well as cultural elements such as clothing, education, languages, or art forms were infused into the classical Ottoman system, which was radically and decisively changed and westernized.
<a data-class="external-link" href="http://viaf.org/viaf/73529061/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Emrah Safa G&#252;rkan">Emrah Safa G&#252;rkan</a>
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<h3>Notes</h3>
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<li id="InsertNoteID_0"><a href="#InsertNoteID_0_marker1">^</a> Ghaza is sometimes translated as "Holy War". However, the meaning of ghaza was much more fluid. It did not only refer to religious Muslims fighting for the cause of Islam against the infidel Christians. Most, if not all, of the ghaza activities that the ghazis conducted were predatory raids with little religious preoccupation, since these raids were directed against Muslims as well. Neither were these ghazi forces only Muslims. Especially during the early period of Ottoman history, Christians and Muslims joined forces in conducting these raids. &#193;goston, Ghaza 2009.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_1"><a href="#InsertNoteID_1_marker2">^</a> The significance of Christian participation in the early successes of the Ottoman Empire has been debated for almost a century. Certain historians, like Mehmed Fuad K&#246;pr&#252;l&#252; and Paul Wittek, have been less convinced than Herbert Gibbons, George G. Arnakis, Nicolae Iorga or Heath Lowry by the importance of the Christian contribution; nonetheless, even the fiercest defenders of the Turco-Muslim role in the Ottoman success did not deny that Christian participation existed. Iorga, Byzance 1935; Wittek, The Rise 1938; K&#246;pr&#252;l&#252;, Bizans M&#252;esseselerinin 1939; K&#246;pr&#252;l&#252;, Some Observations 1993; Arnakis, Hoi prototi othomanoi 1947. For a good survey of historiography on the foundation of the Ottoman Empire, see Kafadar, Between Two Worlds 1995, Chapter 1; Lowry, Early Ottoman State 2003, Chapter 1.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_2"><a href="#InsertNoteID_2_marker3">^</a> &#193;goston, The Most Powerful Empire 2005, pp. 134&#8211;137.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_3"><a href="#InsertNoteID_3_marker4">^</a> Babinger, M&#238;kh&#226;l-oghlu 1960&#8211;2005; G&#246;kbilgin, Mihal-O&#287;ullar&#305; 1979; p. 285; Lowry, Early Ottoman State 2003, pp. 57&#8211;59; Sabev, The Legend 2002. Cf. Imber, The Legend 1993, pp. 67&#8211;68; Lindner, Between Seljuks 2000, p. 121.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_4"><a href="#InsertNoteID_4_marker5">^</a> Lowry, Early Ottoman State 2003, pp. 57&#8211;59.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_5"><a href="#InsertNoteID_5_marker6">^</a> Imber, The Ottoman Empire 2002, pp. 128&#8211;142.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_6"><a href="#InsertNoteID_6_marker7">^</a> For a list of these viziers with biographical information, see Dani&#351;mend, Kronoloji 1971, vol. V, pp. 10ff.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_7"><a href="#InsertNoteID_7_marker8">^</a> Imber, Mahm&#363;d Pasha 1960&#8211;2005; Stavrides, The Sultan of Vezirs 2001.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_8"><a href="#InsertNoteID_8_marker9">^</a> &#304;nalc&#305;k, The Classical Age 1973, pp. 76&#8211;85; Imber, The Ottoman Empire 2002, pp. 162&#8211;166.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_9"><a href="#InsertNoteID_9_marker10">^</a> &#304;nalc&#305;k, Stefan Du&#351;an 1953, pp. 207&#8211;248; &#304;nalc&#305;k, Methods of Conquest 1954.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_10"><a href="#InsertNoteID_10_marker11">^</a> He was appointed the provincial governor of the newly conquered Samsun Sandjak in Northern Anatolia. Hammer-Purgstall, Osmanl&#305; Tarihi 1983, vol. I, p. 212.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_11"><a href="#InsertNoteID_11_marker12">^</a> M&#233;nage, Devshirme 1960&#8211;2005.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_12"><a href="#InsertNoteID_12_marker13">^</a> Veinstein, Sokollu Mehmed Pasha 1960&#8211;2005; Samard&#382;i&#263;, Mehmed Sokolovitch 1994.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_13"><a href="#InsertNoteID_13_marker14">^</a> See the bibliography in Parry, Ender&#251;n 1960&#8211;2005.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_14"><a href="#InsertNoteID_14_marker15">^</a> Imber, The Ottoman Empire 2002, p. 164; Parry, Cigh&#226;l&#226;-z&#226;de 1960&#8211;2005. Oliva, Sinan Bass&#224; 1907&#8211;1908.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_15"><a href="#InsertNoteID_15_marker16">^</a> Kafadar, The Ottomans and Europe 1994, p. 594; for a list of his biographies, see &#304;nalc&#305;k, Iskender Beg 1960&#8211;2005.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_16"><a href="#InsertNoteID_16_marker17">^</a> There was, however, a tendency towards conversion over time, probably because of material advantages. See &#304;nalc&#305;k, Stefan Du&#351;an 1953, pp. 207&#8211;248.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_17"><a href="#InsertNoteID_17_marker18">^</a> &#304;nalc&#305;k, T&#238;m&#226;r 1960&#8211;2005.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_18"><a href="#InsertNoteID_18_marker19">^</a> Imber, The Ottoman Empire 2002, p. 17.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_19"><a href="#InsertNoteID_19_marker20">^</a> He executed them to make an example. Turan, T&#252;rkiye-&#304;talya &#304;li&#351;kileri 1990, p. 275.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_20"><a href="#InsertNoteID_20_marker21">^</a> A Ghazi is a soldier participating in Ghaza. See fn. 1</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_21"><a href="#InsertNoteID_21_marker22">^</a> Braudel, La M&#233;diterran&#233;e 1966, vol. I, p. 145.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_22"><a href="#InsertNoteID_22_marker23">^</a> Maxange, Euldj 'Ali 1930; Valente, Vita di Occhiali 1960; Soucek, Ul&#251;dj 'Ali 1960&#8211;2005.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_23"><a href="#InsertNoteID_23_marker24">^</a> Alb&#232;ri, Le Relazioni 1839&#8211;1863, vol. IX, p. 222.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_24"><a href="#InsertNoteID_24_marker25">^</a> Alb&#232;ri, Le Relazioni 1839&#8211;1863, vol. IX, p. 262.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_25"><a href="#InsertNoteID_25_marker26">^</a> &#193;goston, Turkish War Machine 2005, pp. 106&#8211;111; &#193;goston, Guns for the Sultans 2005, pp. 42&#8211;48.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_26"><a href="#InsertNoteID_26_marker27">^</a> For instance, Comte de Bonneval was instrumental in the westernization of education in the Ottoman Empire. He played an important role in the establishment of the College of Mathematics, Hendeseh&#226;ne, in 1734, the preparation of its modern curriculum and the translation of important works on military science such as Memorie della guerra by Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609&#8211;1680). Ad&#305;var, La science 1939, pp. 143&#8211;144.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_27"><a href="#InsertNoteID_27_marker28">^</a> The term was coined by Andreas David Mordtmann (1811&#8211;1879) in 1889, according to Ad&#305;var, La science 1939, p. 31.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_28"><a href="#InsertNoteID_28_marker29">^</a> Ad&#305;var, La science 1939, pp. 26&#8211;28.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_29"><a href="#InsertNoteID_29_marker30">^</a> Bosworth, Tardjum&#226;n 1960&#8211;2005.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_30"><a href="#InsertNoteID_30_marker31">^</a> Faroqhi, The Ottoman Empire 2002, pp. 28&#8211;30.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_31"><a href="#InsertNoteID_31_marker32">^</a> Szaka&#769;ly, Lodovico Gritti 1995.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_32"><a href="#InsertNoteID_32_marker33">^</a> A sailor, cartographer and author, P&#238;r&#238; Re'&#238;s drew an astonishingly accurate world map in 1513 which included the latest discoveries in the New World. Only part of it has survived until today. He used five European maps, one of which was drawn by Columbus himself. See Soucek, Piri Reis 1992.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_33"><a href="#InsertNoteID_33_marker34">^</a> Res&#226;'il al-M&#252;shfiyye f&#238; Emr&#226;z al-M&#252;shkile. The third volume of the work treats syphilis, relying on the works of the Veronese physician, Girolamo Fracastro (1483&#8211;1553), and the fifth volume cites 16th-century European scientists such as Luis Mercado (c. 1525&#8211;1611) and Antonio Fonseca. See Ad&#305;var, La science 1939, pp. 98&#8211;99.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_34"><a href="#InsertNoteID_34_marker35">^</a> Djih&#226;nn&#252;m&#226;. K&#226;tib &#199;elebi, a.k.a. H&#226;dj&#238; Hal&#238;fe, relied on a number of Western works such as Atlas Minor Gerardi Mercatoris; Philippi Cluverii Introductio In Universam Geographiam tam Veterem qu&#224;m Novam; d'Anania, L'universale fabrica del mondo. Ad&#305;var, La science 1939, pp. 110&#8211;112; G&#246;kyay, K&#226;tib &#199;elebi 1960&#8211;2005.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_35"><a href="#InsertNoteID_35_marker36">^</a> In his D&#252;st&#251;r al-Vas&#238;m f&#238; T&#305;bb al-Ced&#238;d ve al-kad&#238;m, he accepts ideas of Girolamo Fracastro (1478&#8211;1553), Thomas Sydenham (1624&#8211;1689) and Guillaume de Baillou (1538&#8211;1616).</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_36"><a href="#InsertNoteID_36_marker37">^</a> K&#226;tib &#199;elebi translated Atlas Minor (Lev&#226;mi' al-n&#251;r f&#238; zulm&#226;t Atlas Min&#251;r) with a number of marginal comments. G&#246;kyay, K&#226;tib &#199;elebi 1960&#8211;2005. Another geographer, Bekir bin Behr&#226;m al D&#305;ma&#351;k&#238;, translated Joan Blaeu's (1596&#8211;1673) Atlas Major seu cosmographia blaeuiana qua solum, salem, coelum accuratissime describuntur, Amsterdam 1662 (Nusret al-&#304;sl&#226;m ve al-sur&#251;r f&#236; tahr&#238;r Atlas mayor) which mentioned Copernican heliocentrism for the first time in the Ottoman Empire, albeit very briefly. Ad&#305;var, La Science 1939, pp. 121&#8211;123. During the Tulip Era (1718&#8211;1730), the reform-minded Nev&#351;ehirli &#304;br&#226;h&#238;m Pasha (c. 1662&#8211;1730) created a commission to translate European works. One of its 25 members was Es'ad bin 'Al&#238; of Janina, who knew Greek and some Latin. He translated Aristotle's Physics (Kutub al-Tamaniya li Aristo), in the introduction of which he showed familiarity with Christian authors such as Albertus Magnus (1200&#8211;1280), Johannes Scotus Eriugena (c. 815&#8211;c. 877) and Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225&#8211;1274). Ad&#305;var, La science 1939, pp. 126&#8211;127. The founder of the printing press, &#304;br&#226;h&#238;m M&#252;teferrika, also made translations from Latin. He translated several excerpts from Purchotio's (1651&#8211;1734) Institutiones philosophicae ad faciliorem veterum ac recentiorum philosophorum, lectionem comparata, Paris 1695, which mentions the heliocentric system, as well as Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle's (1657&#8211;1757) Th&#233;orie des tourbillons cart&#233;siens, Paris 1752. He added these excerpts to his publication of Djih&#226;nn&#252;m&#226;. Ad&#305;var, La science 1939, pp. 134&#8211;135. An Ottoman physician named 'Abd al-'Az&#238;z translated Herman Boerhaave's (1668&#8211;1738) Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis, Leiden 1709 from French, while another, Osm&#226;n bin 'Abd al-Rahman, translated Pietro Andrea Mattioli's (1501&#8211;1577) Materia medica. Ad&#305;var, La science 1939, p. 148. Ottoman Christians working at foreign embassies were also important in translation efforts. Bedros Baronyan, an Armenian and dragoman for the Dutch embassy, translated Jacques Robbe's La m&#233;thode pour apprendre facilement la g&#233;ographie (Ris&#226;le-yi Cograf&#238;yye). Ad&#305;var, La science 1939, p. 136.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_37"><a href="#InsertNoteID_37_marker38">^</a> K&#226;tib &#199;elebi resorted to the help of Sheykh Mehmed Ikhl&#226;s&#238;, a renegade French priest who was well versed in geography, while writing Djih&#226;nn&#252;m&#226; and translating works from Latin. G&#246;kyay, K&#226;tib &#199;elebi 1960&#8211;2005. There were some Christians within the Ottoman bureaucracy who were familiar with the European sciences. One of the Ottoman dragomans, a Greek of Chios, Alexandre Mavrocordatos (c. 1636&#8211;1709) finished his medical studies at the University of Padua in 1664. There he wrote a thesis concerning the role of the lungs in the circulation of the blood, entitled Pneumaticon instrumentum circulandi sanguinis, Bologna 1664. He was among the Ottoman delegates that signed the Treaty of Carlowitz in 1699 and was one of the most influential figures of his time. Nevertheless, he seems to have had no direct impact on the development of medicine in the Ottoman Empire.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_38"><a href="#InsertNoteID_38_marker39">^</a> The printing press was already in use by non-Muslims such as Jews, Greeks and Armenians, but it was first used to print books in the Arabic alphabet by &#304;br&#226;h&#238;m M&#252;teferrika, a Transylvanian convert. Kut et al., Matba'a 1960&#8211;2005. M&#252;teferrika advocated reform in the Ottoman army and preferred to print books of a secular nature on language, history, geography, and the natural and physical sciences, including, not surprisingly, several works by K&#226;tib &#199;elebi. M&#252;teferrika himself was also a geographer and cartographer who prepared a number of maps, most of which he printed. Berkes, Ibr&#226;h&#238;m M&#252;teferrika 1960&#8211;2005.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_39"><a href="#InsertNoteID_39_marker40">^</a> Pedani, Gran Signore 1994; Pedani, La Dimora della Pace 1996; Dursteler, Venetians in Constantinople 2006.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_40"><a href="#InsertNoteID_40_marker41">^</a> &#193;goston, Limits of Imperial Policy 2007; G&#252;rkan, Osmanl&#305;-Habsburg Rekabeti 2011.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_41"><a href="#InsertNoteID_41_marker42">^</a> Machiavelli, Il Principe 1891, pp. 200&#8211;201; Valensi, The Birth of the Despot 1993; &#304;nalc&#305;k, Comments on "Sultanism" 1992.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_42"><a href="#InsertNoteID_42_marker43">^</a> Pfeffermann, Die Zusammenarbeit 1946; Montes, Franceses 1951; Galati, Ottoman Imperialism 1959; &#304;nalc&#305;k, The Turkish Impact 1974; Setton, The Papacy and the Levant 1976; &#304;nalc&#305;k, The Ottoman Turks 1989; Setton, Venice 1991; Kumrular, El Imperio Otomano 2003; Kumrular, Carlos V 2005; &#304;nalc&#305;k, Turkey and Europe 2006.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_43"><a href="#InsertNoteID_43_marker44">^</a> Necipo&#287;lu, Representation of Power 1993.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_44"><a href="#InsertNoteID_44_marker45">^</a> "roy d'Hispaignes et des terres d&#233;pendantes audict Hispaignes", Bacqu&#233;-Grammont, Autour d'une correspondance 1983, p. 234 or "Siz ki vil&#226;yet-i &#304;spanye ve ana t&#226;'bi olan yerlerin kral&#305; Karlo", La Biblioth&#232;que Nationale, Paris, Suppl&#233;ment Turc, No: 816, cited by G&#246;kbilgin, T&#252;rk&#231;e Belgeler Kolleksiyonu 1968&#8211;1971, p. 115. See also &#193;goston, Politischer Pragmatismus 2005.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_45"><a href="#InsertNoteID_45_marker46">^</a> Under Islamic law, the world is divided into two spheres: the first, D&#226;r al-Isl&#226;m ("the Abode of Islam"), is the lands that are, or were at one point, under Muslim government. The second, D&#226;r al-H&#226;rb ("the Abode of War"), is the lands yet to be conquered. Every Muslim ruler is required to transform D&#226;r al-H&#226;rb into D&#226;r al-Isl&#226;m by conquest; in theory, therefore, permanent peaceful relations between Muslim and Christian states cannot exist. There is, however, a third category, recognized only by some jurists, which seemed to suit the Ottoman interests better: D&#226;r al-'Ahd ("the Abode of the Covenant"), a category between D&#226;r al-Isl&#226;m and D&#226;r al-H&#226;rb, consists of lands which pass into the hands of Muslims by an agreement. In Ottoman practice, an 'am&#226;n (a safe-conduct) confirmed by an 'ahdn&#226;me (imperial charter) and drawn up in the form of an imperial diploma, berat was granted to the Christian rulers. Such a ruler had to pay a tribute, haradj, and maintain his relations with other states in total harmony with those of the Ottomans. In exchange, the Sultan promised not to colonize these lands with Muslims, granted free trade rights, capitulations, as a result of which his subjects would enjoy security and the status of a musta'min (protected, somebody who enjoys the privileges of an 'am&#226;n) rather than a harb&#238; (enemy alien, infidel). &#304;nalc&#305;k, &#304;mtiy&#226;z&#226;t 1960&#8211;2005. &#304;nalc&#305;k, D&#226;r al-'Ahd 1960&#8211;2005.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_46"><a href="#InsertNoteID_46_marker47">^</a> For a textual analysis of Ottoman 'ahdn&#226;mes granted to Venetians, see Theunissen, Ahdnames 1991.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_47"><a href="#InsertNoteID_47_marker48">^</a> During the first century and a half of their history, the Ottomans married princesses from other dynasties, some of whom were Christians, in order to cement political alliances and increase their reputation, a policy which they dropped after 1450. A list of Sultans' Christian parents-in-law demonstrates the success of this policy: Byzantine Emperor Ioannes VI Kantakouzenos (1292&#8211;1383), Bulgarian Tsar of Trnovo, Ivan Shishman (c. 1350/1351&#8211;1395), Countess of Salona, Serbian Knezs (Prince) Stefan Lazarevi&#263; (1374&#8211;1427) and George Brankovi&#263; (1377&#8211;1456), Voivoda (Prince) of Wallachia Mircea I (1355&#8211;1418) and Despot Carlo Tocco I of Ionnina (d. 1429). See Imber, The Ottoman Empire 2002, pp. 92&#8211;94.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_48"><a href="#InsertNoteID_48_marker49">^</a> Peace treaty of Zsitvatorok 1606.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_49"><a href="#InsertNoteID_49_marker50">^</a> The previous treaties in the 16th century rejected assigning such status to the Habsburg Emperor and established his status as equal to that of the Grand Vizier.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_50"><a href="#InsertNoteID_50_marker51">^</a> For a classical study on the Orthodox Church under the Ottomans, see Runciman, The Great Church in Captivity 1968.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_51"><a href="#InsertNoteID_51_marker52">^</a> Phanariot is a term referring to the Greek-speaking elite that resided in the Phanar quarter of Constantinople. They held important political and social positions, especially after the 17th century, until the Greek War of Independence in 1821. They were originally employed by the Ottomans as dragomans (translators), and later as governors of Moldavia and Wallachia, the semi-autonomous Ottoman provinces beyond the Danube. Philliou, Phanariots 2009.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_52"><a href="#InsertNoteID_52_marker53">^</a> &#304;nalc&#305;k, Methods of Conquest 1954; Faroqhi, The Ottoman Empire 2004, pp. 75&#8211;80.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_53"><a href="#InsertNoteID_53_marker54">^</a> Sugar, Southeastern Europe 1977, pp. 113&#8211;183; Faroqhi, The Ottoman Empire 2004, pp. 89&#8211;95.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_54"><a href="#InsertNoteID_54_marker55">^</a> For early Ottoman-Genoese relations, see Fleet, European and Islamic Trade 1999, pp. 10&#8211;12.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_55"><a href="#InsertNoteID_55_marker56">^</a> &#304;nalc&#305;k, Fatih devri 1954.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_56"><a href="#InsertNoteID_56_marker57">^</a> Pressure from Genoa forced the colony to drop the offer. Turan, T&#252;rkiye-&#304;talya &#304;li&#351;kileri 1990, pp. 261&#8211;264.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_57"><a href="#InsertNoteID_57_marker58">^</a> Pedani, Dalla frontiera al confine 2002, p. 9. According to Preto, between 1453 and 1797 the two sides fought for a total of 61 years as opposed to 273 when they did not cited by Capponi, Victory of the West 2006, p. 61.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_58"><a href="#InsertNoteID_58_marker59">^</a> For a list of Ottoman ambassadors sent to Venice and of the treaties signed, see Pedani, Gran Signore 1994, Appendix I.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_59"><a href="#InsertNoteID_59_marker60">^</a> Preto, I Servizi Segreti 1994, pp. 247&#8211;260; Kissling, Venezia come centro di informazioni 1977; Mantran, Venise, centre d'informations 1977; Hassiotis, Venezia e i domini veneziani 1977.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_60"><a href="#InsertNoteID_60_marker61">^</a> Lucchetta, Giovani di lingua 1989.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_61"><a href="#InsertNoteID_61_marker62">^</a> Segre et al., I Diarii di Priuli 1912&#8211;1938, vol. IV, pp. 140&#8211;141.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_62"><a href="#InsertNoteID_62_marker63">^</a> One of their diplomats, Pietro Zen (1453&#8211;1539) was reported to have celebrated the Ottoman victory in Mohacs (1526), by "building a fountain which pours wine in front of his house". Finlay, Al Servizio del Sultano 1984, pp. 78&#8211;118.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_63"><a href="#InsertNoteID_63_marker64">^</a> Durrieu, Jean sans Peur 1887, pp. 209&#8211;218.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_64"><a href="#InsertNoteID_64_marker65">^</a> Turan, T&#252;rkiye-&#304;talya &#304;li&#351;kileri 1990, pp. 265f.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_65"><a href="#InsertNoteID_65_marker66">^</a> This alliance, too, failed to materialize, and Bayezid II (c. 1447/1448&#8211;1512), angry at Sforza's unfulfilled promises, executed one of his envoys. Longo, Annali Veneti 1843, vol. I, pp. 153, 169, 173, 209.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_66"><a href="#InsertNoteID_66_marker67">^</a> &#304;nalc&#305;k, The Ottoman Turks 1989, p. 337.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_67"><a href="#InsertNoteID_67_marker68">^</a> Vatin, Sultan Djem 1997, p. 21.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_68"><a href="#InsertNoteID_68_marker69">^</a> Longo, Annali Veneti 1843, vol. I, p. 145.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_69"><a href="#InsertNoteID_69_marker70">^</a> Stefani et al., I Diarii di Sanuto 1879&#8211;1902, vol. II, p. 1313; Segre et al., I Diarii di Priuli 1912&#8211;38, vol. I, pp. 171, 195, 198.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_70"><a href="#InsertNoteID_70_marker71">^</a> Longo, Annali Veneti 1843, vol. I, pp. 144, 171.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_71"><a href="#InsertNoteID_71_marker72">^</a> AGS, E 1043, E 1309/22, E 1326/238, E 1326/240, E 1329/20; &#304;nalc&#305;k, The Ottoman Turks 1989, p. 337; Aubin, Terre d'Otrante 1992, pp. 469f.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_72"><a href="#InsertNoteID_72_marker73">^</a> Kissling, Francesco II Gonzaga 1967, pp. 34&#8211;68.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_73"><a href="#InsertNoteID_73_marker74">^</a> Charri&#232;re, N&#233;gociations de la France, vol. III, pp. 84, 87; Capponi, Victory of the West 2006, p. 124.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_74"><a href="#InsertNoteID_74_marker75">^</a> Serrano, Espa&#241;a y la Santa Sede 1914, vol. IV, pp. 514&#8211;516.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_75"><a href="#InsertNoteID_75_marker76">^</a> Bornate, Sampiero Corso a Costantinopoli 1939.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_76"><a href="#InsertNoteID_76_marker77">^</a> Pfeffermann, Die Zusammenarbeit 1946; Vatin, Sultan Djem 1997.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_77"><a href="#InsertNoteID_77_marker78">^</a> Durrieu, D&#233;livrance de la Gr&#232;ce 1912; Durrieu, Valona, base d'une expedition fran&#231;aise 1915.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_78"><a href="#InsertNoteID_78_marker79">^</a> Raffa, L'ultima impresa 1999.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_79"><a href="#InsertNoteID_79_marker80">^</a> The 1536 treaty did not include trade capitulations. The surviving copy of it is nothing but a copy of the 1569 treaty. See Laurent, Les articles 1902.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_80"><a href="#InsertNoteID_80_marker81">^</a> Beydilli, Die polnischen K&#246;nigswahlen 1974.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_81"><a href="#InsertNoteID_81_marker82">^</a> AGS, E 1332/8; Galati, Ottoman Imperialism 1959.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_82"><a href="#InsertNoteID_82_marker83">^</a> Charri&#232;re, N&#233;gociations de la France 1848&#8211;1860, vol. III, p. 199.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_83"><a href="#InsertNoteID_83_marker84">^</a> BOA, MD, 43/340; Feridun, M&#252;n&#351;e&#226;t 1275/1858, pp. 542&#8211;544; Skilliter, The Sultan's Messenger 1976.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_84"><a href="#InsertNoteID_84_marker85">^</a> Charri&#232;re, N&#233;gociations de la France, vol. III, pp. 679&#8211;680, fn. 1.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_85"><a href="#InsertNoteID_85_marker86">^</a> Burian, T&#252;rk-&#304;ngiliz M&#252;nasebetleri 1951, pp. 1&#8211;17; Skilliter, William Harborne 1977. For 1580 capitulations, see BOA, MD, 49/109; for talks of an alliance see BOA, MD, 19/667, and 64/213.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_86"><a href="#InsertNoteID_86_marker87">^</a> Pursell, The Winter King 2003, pp. 112&#8211;113, 160, 196&#8211;197.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_87"><a href="#InsertNoteID_87_marker88">^</a> Venetian relazioni relate a number of aspects of Ottoman culture and society, starting from the 16th century. Alb&#232;ri, Le Relazioni 1839&#8211;1863; Barozzi et al., Relazioni 1856&#8211;1878; Pedani, Costantinopoli 1996; Valensi, The Birth of the Despot 1993. In Venice, there was also an extensive body of literature devoted to the "Turks" which, increasingly after 1683, began to concentrate on social and cultural aspects, e.g. Donado, Giovanni Battista: Della Letteratura de' Turchi, Venetia 1688. Also see Soykut, Image of the "Turk" 2001, pp. 112&#8211;147.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_88"><a href="#InsertNoteID_88_marker89">^</a> Hammer-Purgstall, Constantinopolis und der Bosporos 1822; Hammer-Purgstall, Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches 1827&#8211;1835.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_89"><a href="#InsertNoteID_89_marker90">^</a> d'Ohsson, Ignatius Mouradgea: Tableau G&#233;n&#233;ral de l'Empire Othoman, Paris 1788&#8211;1824, vol. 1&#8211;7.</li>
<li id="InsertNoteID_90"><a href="#InsertNoteID_90_marker91">^</a> d'Ohsson, Abraham Constantin Mouradgea: Histoire des Mongols: depuis Tchinguiz-Khan jusqu'&#224; Timour-Lang, Paris 1824; d'Ohsson, Abraham Constantin Mouradgea: Des peuples du Caucase et des pays au nord de la Mer Noire et de la Mer Caspienne, dans le dixi&#232;me si&#232;cle ou voyage d'Abou-al-Cassim, Paris 1828.</li>
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