Oliver Jens Schmitt, The Ottoman Conquest of the Balkans and Its Historical Arenas: on the Relationship between Regional and Supraregional History
Oliver Jens Schmitt - Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Vienna
TOME LIX 2021
pp. 9-35
Online publication date:
10/13/2023
Keywords:
Ottoman Empire; Late Medieval Balkans; spatial methods
Abstract:
The article aims at interpreting the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans as a major historical process in a larger spatial context. It discusses the late Medieval Balkans as a space that was interrelated with surrounding political and cultural spaces from the Adriatic to Anatolia and from the Black Sea area to the Aegean basin with a special focus on migration and diaspora groups.
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