Living in the Ottoman Realm. Empire and Identity, 13th to 20th Centuries

44 | The Genoese of Pera in the Fifteenth Century the Draperio family lived in Pera, and the family gave its name to one of the ...

Mercan|45 Luchino married Jhera Paleologina, daughter of Calojane Livadarios, head of a well-known aristocratic family of the Pa ...

46 | The Genoese of Pera in the Fifteenth Century The great ruler of Asia, opening the royal portals, did not betake himself to ...

Mercan|47 after de la Broquière, confirms that Genoese and Florentine families were settled in Bursa. During his visit, he staye ...

48 | The Genoese of Pera in the Fifteenth Century of Pera an ahidname (set of capitulations). Originally written in Greek and tr ...

Figure 3.1 Renewal of Sultan Mehmed II’s 1453 ahidname by Sultan Ahmed I in 1613. The document displays the tuğra (signa- ture) ...

50 | The Genoese of Pera in the Fifteenth Century of the Genoese, Pera was their birthplace and hometown. Moreover, during this ...

Figure 3.2 Pera (top) and Constantinople (bottom), ca. 1457–1458. (Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Liber Insularum Archipelogi, Bibliot ...

52 | The Genoese of Pera in the Fifteenth Century Spinola, who died there, and which was at that time inhabited by Nicholai de A ...

Mercan|53 Examining the experience of the Draperio and Spinola families demonstrates that, by giving priority to their individua ...

54 | The Genoese of Pera in the Fifteenth Century . Balard, “Péra au XIVe siècle: Documents notariés de Gênes,” docs. 73, 77, ...

From Byzantine Aristocracy to Ottoman Ruling Elite Mahmud Pasha Angelović and His Christian Circle, – Theoharis Stavride ...

56 | Mahmud Pasha and His Christian Circle and were dependent only on him; therefore, they were considered to be more loyal than ...

Stavrides|57 reign of Mehmed II, he was the second-most-important man in the state after the sultan, serving as grand vizier and ...

58 | Mahmud Pasha and His Christian Circle the end of the fourteenth century. This information has led modern historians to argu ...

Stavrides|59 Beyond the symbolic meaning of the practice of appointing members of former elites to administrative positions, whi ...

60 | Mahmud Pasha and His Christian Circle Then the Grand Signor was trying to take with treachery Smederevo, a prin- cipal city ...

Stavrides|61 Orthodox Church. According to this story, the grand vizier and the sultan pun- ished Patriarch Ioasaf I Kokkas (ter ...

62 | Mahmud Pasha and His Christian Circle Byzantine aristocracy that had remained intact during that period could also, potenti ...

Stavrides|63 The Venetian Scheme On December 22, 1470, the Venetian Council of Ten, which oversaw the re- public’s security, dis ...