TWO FIRMANS OF MUSTAFÄ II ON THE REORGANIZATION OF THE OTTOMAN COURIER SYSTEM (1108/1696)
TWO FIRMANS OF MUSTAFÄ II ON THE REORGANIZATION OF THE OTTOMAN COURIER SYSTEM (1108/1696)
Author(s): Colin HeywoodSubject(s): Cultural history, Economic history, Social history, Turkish Literature, 17th Century, The Ottoman Empire, Translation Studies, Theory of Literature
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Ottoman Empire; economic and social history; 1453-1699; Rumeli; history and historical geography; the Ottoman ulak (courier) system; history; Via Egnatia, history (1380-1699); Ottoman paleography;
Summary/Abstract: The present article publishes text and translation of two firmans of Mustafa II, dated 1108 (1696), taken from copies in the cadi registers (sicill) of Thessaloniki, regulating the reform of the Ottoman state courier and post-station (ulak/menzilhdne) network with regard to the Rumelian sol kol (Via Egnatia). The firman texts are designed to be studied in conjunction with the commentary in the author’s study of the Rumelian sol kol in E. Zachariadou, The Via Egnatia under Ottoman Rule (1380-1699) (Rethymnon 1996), pp. 129-144.
Journal: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- Issue Year: 54/2001
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 485-496
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English
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