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Guarding the Frontier - Ottoman Border Forts and Garrisons in Europe (Hardcover)
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Guarding the Frontier - Ottoman Border Forts and Garrisons in Europe (Hardcover)
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The seventeenth-century Ottoman-Habsburg frontier was the scene of
chronic conflict. The defences of both empires were based on a line
of fortresses, spanning the border. Mark Stein gives us a
fascinating insight into everyday life on the frontier in this
turbulent time in Ottoman history, by investigating the social,
economic, and military aspects of Ottoman forts and garrisons in a
new comparative approach. Drawing on a wide range of Ottoman and
Western archival and narrative sources, "Guarding the Frontier"
assesses the state of early-modern Ottoman military architecture
and siegecraft; and, carefully dissects the Ottomans' ability to
besiege, defend, build, and repair fortifications in the
seventeenth century, as well as the relationship between the
central and provisional administrations. This thorough overview
includes an assessment of the empire's ability to marshal the
manpower and supply requirements for lengthy sieges; a survey of
Ottoman artillery; and the procedures involved in building and
maintaining frontier forts. Studying an extensive database compiled
from seventeenth-century garrison payroll records, Stein paints a
fascinating description of the various types of troops who served
on the Ottoman-Habsburg frontier: slave and levied soldiers,
cavalry and infantry, Muslims and Christians, charged with
defending the Ottoman Empire at this fascinating point in History.
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