![]() ![]() ![]() In other words, Deliorman and Gerlovo were populated in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries with the same sort of centrifugal gazi forces that Cemal Kafadar described in Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State (1995), where he claimed persuasively that the Ottoman state’s great success was subordinating them to the will of its centralizing administration in fourteenth-century Anatolia. Over the next century, the population grew dramatically from an influx of heterodox non-sharia-minded dervishes and Turcoman seminomads. Those who did inhabit the region were part of the native Christian population or seminomadic non-sharia-minded Turcoman Muslims who were central to the region’s conquest by the Ottomans. In the fifteenth century, Deliorman, Gerlovo, and the adjacent regions of the northeastern Balkans were sparsely populated. Reviewed by Nathan Michalewicz (George Mason University)Ĭommissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University) The Ottoman "Wild West": The Balkan Frontier in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.Ĭambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. ![]()
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