The European Tributary States of the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Gábor Kármán, Ph. D. (2009), Eötvös Loránd University, is a research fellow at the Center for the History and Culture of East Central Europe in Leipzig. He is the author of the monograph Transylvanian Foreign Policy after the Peace of Westphalia (in Hungarian). Lovro Kunčevic, Ph.D. (2012), Central European University, is a research fellow at the Institute for Historical Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Dubrovnik. He has published on the ideology, identity and institutions of medieval and early modern Dubrovnik.

The European Tributary States is the first attempt to give a comprehensive overview of the similarities and differences in the Ottoman Empire's relationship to Moldavia, Wallachia, Transylvania, Ragusa, the Crimean Khanate as well as the Cossack Hetmanate.

CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction Section One The Legal Status of the Ottoman Tributaries The Legal and Political Status of Wallachia and Moldavia in Relation to the Ottoman Porte Viorel Panaite Sovereignty and Subordination in Crimean-Ottoman Relations (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries) Natalia Krolikowska Between Vienna and Constantinople: Notes on the Legal Status of the Principality of Transylvania Terez Oborni Janus-faced Sovereignty: The International Status of the Ragusan Republic in the Early Modern Period Lovro Kuncevic Cossack Ukraine In and Out of Ottoman Orbit, 1648-1681 Victor Ostapchuk Section Two The Diplomacy of the Tributary States in the Ottoman System Sovereignty and Representation: Tributary States in the Seventeenth-century Diplomatic System of the Ottoman Empire Gabor Karman Diplomatic Relations between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Dubrovnik Vesna Miovic Enemies Within: Networks of Influence and the Military Revolts against the Ottoman Power (Moldavia and Wallachia,Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries) Radu G. Paun Section Three Military Cooperation between the Ottoman Empire and Its Tributaries The Friend of My Friend and the Enemy of My Enemy: Romanian Participation in Ottoman Campaigns Ovidiu Cristea The Military Co-operation of the Crimean Khanate with the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Maria Ivanics 'Splendid Isolation'? The Military Cooperation of the Principality of Transylvania with the Ottoman Empire (1571-1688) in the Mirror of the Hungarian Historiography's Dilemmas Janos B. Szabo The Defensive System of the Ragusan Republic (c. 1580-1620) Domagoj Madunic Section Four Instead of a Conclusion: on the "Compositeness" of the Empire The System of Autonomous Muslim and Christian Communities, Churches, and States in the Ottoman Empire Sandor Papp What is Inside and What is Outside? Tributary States in Ottoman Politics Dariusz Kolodziejczyk Notes on Contributors Indices