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 Kunčević, 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 major success of the volume is that the authors managed to challenge an approach deeply enrooted in many national historiographies, in which the alleged statuses of the Early Modern states seem to reflect more the questions of national dignity that are articulated today by their successors than they do any reliable assessment of the available sources. The authors whose essays have been included in this volume have situated their research within the context of modern Ottoman studies in order to focus not on the struggles of the tributaries for self-governance associated with autonomy and, furthermore, with the independence of the respective states, but rather on peculiarities of their functioning within the Ottoman Empire'.Tetiana Grygorieva in Hungarian Historical Review 4, no. 2 (2015): 502–536

• CONTENTSAcknowledgments IntroductionSection One The Legal Status of the Ottoman TributariesThe Legal and Political Status of Wallachia and Moldavia in Relation to the Ottoman Porte Viorel PanaiteSovereignty and Subordination in Crimean-Ottoman Relations (Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries) Natalia KrólikowskaBetween Vienna and Constantinople: Notes on the Legal Status of the Principality of Transylvania Teréz OborniJanus-faced Sovereignty: The International Status of the Ragusan Republic in the Early Modern Period Lovro KunčevićCossack Ukraine In and Out of Ottoman Orbit, 1648–1681Victor OstapchukSection TwoThe Diplomacy of the Tributary States in the Ottoman SystemSovereignty and Representation: Tributary States in the Seventeenth-century Diplomatic System of the Ottoman Empire Gábor KármánDiplomatic Relations between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Dubrovnik Vesna MiovićEnemies Within: Networks of Influence and the Military Revolts against the Ottoman Power (Moldavia and Wallachia,Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries) Radu G. PăunSection ThreeMilitary Cooperation between the Ottoman Empire and Its TributariesThe Friend of My Friend and the Enemy of My Enemy: Romanian Participation in Ottoman CampaignsOvidiu CristeaThe Military Co-operation of the Crimean Khanate with the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesMária 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 János B. SzabóThe Defensive System of the Ragusan Republic (c. 1580–1620) Domagoj MadunićSection FourInstead of a Conclusion: on the “Compositeness” of the Empire The System of Autonomous Muslim and Christian Communities, Churches, and States in the Ottoman Empire Sándor PappWhat is Inside and What is Outside? Tributary States in Ottoman Politics Dariusz KołodziejczykNotes on Contributors Indices