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Author Soucek, Svatopluk, author.

Title Studies in Ottoman Naval History and Maritime Geography / Svat Soucek
Published Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2011]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Analecta Isisiana ; 102
Analecta Isisiana ; 102.
Contents Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Piri Reis and Süleyman the Magnificent -- 2. Piri Reis and the Ottoman Discovery of the Great Discoveries -- 3. Piri Reis and the Persian Gulf -- 4. The Rise of the Barbarossas in North Africa -- 5. Ottoman naval policy in the Indian Ocean -- 6. The Portuguese and the Turks in the Persian Gulf -- 7. Naval Aspects of the Ottoman Conquest of Rhodes, Cyprus and Crete -- 8. The Strait of Chios and the Kaptanpaşa's navy -- 9. The Ottoman Merchant Marine -- 10. Certain Types of Ships in Ottoman-Turkish Terminology -- Mīnā -- Milāha -- Ottoman Cartography -- A Czech nobleman's pilgrimage to the Holy Land: 1493 -- Harant's Putowanj and Ali's Halat al-Qahire: a Comparison
Summary A collection of articles by Svat Soucek about the naval history of the Ottoman Empire in the 15th to 18th centuries
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2019)
Subject HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
SUBJECT Turkey -- History, Naval
Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138802
Subject Turkey
Genre/Form History
Naval history
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1463226039
9781463226039