Camels, Wagons, and the Ottoman State in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8969207
AutoresSuraiya Faroqhi (Middle East Technical University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1982
Volumen14
Número4
Páginas523-539
Fecha de publicación1982-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020743800052193
OpenAlexW2054764731
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas27
Referencias citadas11

The history of Ottoman transportation as a whole still remains to be written. To date, scholars have concentrated mainly upon the institutional aspects of the problem. Thus Cengiz Orhonlu in his pioneering work has dealt with attempts on the part of the Ottoman administration to maintain street and road paving, establish ferryboat services, control river navigation, and ensure the safety of public roads. Boat traffic within Istanbul, which linked the different parts of the Ottoman capital and thus ensured their mutual integration, was also treated mainly from the Ottoman administration's point of view. 1 After Orhonlu's untimely death, research into the institutional framework supporting Ottoman communications was continued by other scholars. Particularly the arrangements intended to supply official couriers with post-horses have recently been made the object of several monographs. 2

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