Contents

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

Sovereignty and Subordination in Crimean-Ottoman Relations (Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries)

Between Vienna and Constantinople: Notes on the Legal Status of the Principality of Transylvania

Janus-faced Sovereignty: The International Status of the Ragusan Republic in the Early Modern Period

Cossack Ukraine In and Out of Ottoman Orbit, 1648–1681

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

Enemies Within: Networks of Influence and the Military Revolts against the Ottoman Power (Moldavia and Wallachia, Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries)

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

The Military Co-operation of the Crimean Khanate with the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

‘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

The Defensive System of the Ragusan Republic (c. 1580–1620)

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

What is Inside and What is Outside? Tributary States in Ottoman Politics

Notes on Contributors

Personal Names

Place Names