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1 8. Kreutel, Kara Mustafa vor Wien, 1 3– 1 4, 1 6; Nermi, Viyana Kuşatması Günlüğü,

29–30, 32.

1 9. Kreutel, Kara Mustafa vor Wien, 1 5, 1 6, 1 7; Nermi, Viyana Kuşatması Günlüğü,

31 , 33–34, 35.

20. 
    

    Kreutel, Kara Mustafa vor Wien, 24; Nermi, Viyana Kuşatması Günlüğü, 47.

    
    


21. 
    

    Dávid, “New and Little Known Sources Concerning Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa
    Pasha,” 8 1 , 89–90.

    
    


22. 
    

    Rycaut, The Present State of the Ottoman Empire, 290. Rycaut covered the pe-
    riod up to 1 676; events of the following decade appear in a continuation by Sir Roger
    Manley, Knight. Rycaut translated the text to read as follows: the sultan sent his army to
    take Vienna “and establish there the Cult of our Divine Religion; ’tis therefore, that be-
    fore we draw our fatal Cymetars, as our chief End is the Propagation of the Musselman
    Faith, and that is expressly commanded us by the Laws of Our Holy Prophet, fi rst and
    before all things, to exhort you to embrace our Holy Religion, we do hereby advertise
    you, that if you will cause your selves to be instructed in our Mysteries, you will fi nd the
    Salvation of your Souls therein.”

    
    


23. 
    

    Kreutel, Kara Mustafa vor Wien, 1 9, 20; Nermi, Viyana Kuşatması Günlüğü,
    39, 40.

    
    


24. 
    

    Kreutel, Kara Mustafa vor Wien, 20–2 1 , 3 1 –32; Nermi, Viyana Kuşatması
    Günlüğü, 4 1 –45, 57–59, 6 1 , 72, 82. Other terms referring to swine were also used; in
    Ottoman texts a covered gallery in a fortifi cation is called a “pigsty.”

    
    


25. 
    

    Kreutel, Kara Mustafa vor Wien, 25; Nermi, Viyana Kuşatması Günlüğü, 48.

    
    


26. 
    

    Kreutel, Kara Mustafa vor Wien, 27–28, 30; Nermi, Viyana Kuşatması Günlüğü,
    51 , 52–53, 55.

    
    


27. 
    

    Kreutel, Kara Mustafa vor Wien, 3 1 –32, 44, 47, 48; Nermi, Viyana Kuşatması
    Günlüğü, 57, 58, 74, 75, 80–8 1.

    
    


28. 
    

    Kreutel, Kara Mustafa vor Wien, 57; Nermi, Viyana Kuşatması Günlüğü, 92.
    She passed away August 4. See Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 2: 11 6.

    
    


29. 
    

    Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 2: 11 7.

    
    


30. 
    

    Kreutel, Kara Mustafa vor Wien, 6 1 , 62, 65, 67; Nermin, Viyana Kuşatması
    Günlüğü, 99, 1 00, 1 04, 1 07.

    
    


31. 
    

    Kreutel, Kara Mustafa vor Wien, 68, 69–70; Nermin, Viyana Kuşatması
    Günlüğü, 1 08, 11 0– 11.

    
    


32. 
    

    Kreutel, Kara Mustafa vor Wien, 7 1 , 74; Nermin, Viyana Kuşatması Günlüğü,
    11 3, 11 8.

    
    


33. 
    

    Kreutel, Kara Mustafa vor Wien, 76; Nermin, Viyana Kuşatması Günlüğü, 121.

    
    


34. 
    

    Anonymous, A Description of Vienna.

    
    


35. 
    

    Kreutel, Kara Mustafa vor Wien, 76; Nermin, Viyana Kuşatması Günlüğü, 121.

    
    


36. 
    

    Kreutel, Kara Mustafa vor Wien, 77; Nermin, Viyana Kuşatması Günlüğü, 1 22.

    
    


37. 
    

    Nihadi, Tarih-i Nihadi, fol. 225b.

    
    


38. 
    

    Kreutel, Kara Mustafa vor Wien, 77–78; Nermin, Viyana Kuşatması Günlüğü,

    
    

1 23.

39. This makes for a gripping narrative, but in fact, although the symbolic loss

would have been immense, it would not have been a complete calamity if that banner

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