Naslov
Frontier Elites of the Ottoman Empire During the War for Crete (1645- 1669): The Case of Ali-Pasha Čengić

Autori
Madunić, Domagoj

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Europe and the 'Ottoman world': Exchanges and Conflicts (16th-17-th centuries)

Urednik/ci
Kármán, Gábor ; Paun, Radu

Izdavač
The Isis Press

Grad
Istanbul

Godina
2013

Raspon stranica
47-82

ISBN
978-975-428-487-4

Ključne riječi
War for Crete, Dalmatia, Bosnia, Republic of Venice, Ottoman Empire

Sažetak
The main research subject of this study is the intriguing person of Ali Pasha Čengić, member of one of the most prominent family of the Bosnian Ottoman lords and his conduct during the Venetian- Ottoman War of Crete. Ali Pasha Čengić, for almost two decades was one of the most dominating persons of the Bosnian eyalet, yet also maintained the close and friendly ties with the Republic o Venice, and even openly sabotage Ottoman attack on Kotor in 1657. So far historiography has treated the person of Ali Pasha Čengić in rather negative light, as a traitor of the Empire who served his Venetian masters for money and personal gains, and who was even for the Turkish standards extremely greedy, corrupt and cruel. Yet, was it really so? The case of this controversial Bosnian grandee well illustrates complexities of the Empire’s frontier. As this paper will attempt to show, through detailed reconstruction of Ali Pasha's historical context, he was also moved by other motives than a simple material gain, and one should not look this Bosnian grandee in the black and white colors, judging him as the simple traitor. Above all Ali Pasha Čengić should be seen as the great lord for whom the family/dynastic interests came before anything else.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest

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