Abstract This paper focuses on the articulation between property, sovereignty, and construction of new political subjectivities in post-Ottoman provinces. Drawing cases British Cyprus, Italian Dodecanese, French Mandatory Syria, it shows that European sovereign claims these territories were pursued through perpetuation Ottoman land laws reorganisation judicial system responsible for implementin...

The presence of Catholic communities in Istanbul date back to the pre-Ottoman period, and their number increased Ottoman economic political context. Even though Levantines have been subject numerous popular history works, we can observe a relatively smaller academic interest issue. This article is review recent book on Croatian pre-modern modern penned by an historian from fresh perspective.

My discussions with ISHM members have disclosed considerable interest in the history of the relations that Turkey and its medicine have had with other countries. Dr Lellouch, the secretary of ISHM, originally suggested that I address the subject of Turkish-French relations by means of an essay in Vesalius. This led me to consider a wider ranging paper on Ottoman-European relations. For complete...

any part of the Ottoman or Persian dominions, took everybody by surprise, and few would believe at first that the outbreak was really one of the dreaded Asiatic scourge. The rise of the Euphrates and Tigris in 1889 was insignificant. Navigation in the great canal of Shat-el-Hai, which connects the Tigris with the Euphrates, ceased in May, and the extensive marsh lying between Shatra and Nasriye...

This essay studies Moses Galeano, a Jewish scholar with ties to Crete and the Ottoman Sultan's court, who traveled to the Veneto around 1500. After describing Galeano's intellectual milieu, it focuses, first, on circumstantial evidence that he transmitted information central to the rise of Renaissance astronomy. Galeano knew of theories that strongly resemble portions of astronomy texts written...

More than democratic deficit, most countries of the Middle East suffer from the fundamental problem over their national identity. More than three-quarters of a century after the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire from which most of them emerged, these states have been unable to define, project, and maintain a national identity that is both inclusive and representative. None of the countries o...

0167-8655/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.patrec.2011.02.013 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +90 312 2903143; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] (E.F. Ca (P. Duygulu). In this study, we propose a newmethod for retrieving and recognizing words in historical documents. We represent word images with a set of line segments. Then we provide a criterion for word matchin...

The essay concentrates on a master narrative strategy presiding over the early emergence of modernity in the area in which contemporary Romania is situated. This narrative strategy richly illustrates the neoByzantine survival strategies of the Greek elites who ruled the Danubian Principalities (Moldova and Valahia) during the earlier stages of Romanian modernization (18th century). Early modem ...

As attested by diff erent sources, the period between WWI and WWII was fertile in proposals regarding science, society, and humankind all over Europe. Th e fi eld of medicine was characterized by the perception of a crisis in its theoretical and practical fundaments and the emergence of numerous movements oriented towards their reformulation. Most of them were confi ned to the realm of speciali...