Kurds as spies: Information-gathering on the 16th-century Ottoman–Safavid frontier
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0001-6446,1588-2667
DOI: 10.1556/062.2018.71.2.5