This eBook edition has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Annals of the Turkish Empire is a narrative of the most important and interesting events which had transpired within the Turkish dominions within seventy years, from 1591 to 1660. Besides other incidents of importance, negotiations and treaties - friendly and commercial with foreign powers, the book includes the author's detailed account of all the wars, offensive and defensive, foreign and domestic, in which the Turks had been engaged during that period. Content: The Grand Vezír, Ferhád Páshá, Deposed, and the Vezírship Conferred on Síávush Páshá The Militia of Tabríz The Muftí Effendí, Bostánízádeh, Deposed, and Zekeríá Effendí Appointed in His Stead Disturbance on the Confines of Bosnia and Hungary—Movements of the Infidels News From the East Concerning Learned Men The Spáhís Create a Disturbance in the Diván The Grand Vezír, Síávush Páshá, Deposed A Rupture Betwixt the Ottomans and the Austrians The Grand Vezír, Sinán Páshá, Determines on Carrying the War Into Hungary The Enemy Advances to Belgrade Felk Falls Into the Hands of the Enemy The Faithless Are Chastised The Base and Ignoble Infidels Besiege Khutván The Siege of Osterghún The Request of the Prime Minister Yanuk Laid Siege to The Moslem Warriors Begin an Assault The Conquest of Yanuk Komran Laid Siege to The Waiwoda of Moldavia Rebels Concerning the Insurrection Occasioned by Michael, Waiwoda of Valachia Death of Sultán Murád III. The Late Emperor's Age—The Time of His Reign—Some of His Virtues and Good Deeds Described Vezírs Contemporary With Sultán Murád Khán Learned Men Contemporary With Sultán Murád Khán Reverend Doctors Contemporary With Murád Khán Facts Relative to the New Emperor, Sultán Mohammed Khán III. Ferhád Páshá Prepares to Set Out for Valachia Ferhád Arrives on the Banks of the Danube Ferhád is Deposed—Sinán Páshá Raised to the Premiership Sinán Páshá is Made Grand Vezír a Fifth Time Sinán Páshá's Death—Ibrahím Páshá is Made Grand Vezír …

Making use of legal and historical sources, Viorel Panaite analyzes the status of tribute-payers from the north of the Danube with reference to Ottoman law of peace and war. He deals with the impact of Ottoman holy war and the way conquest in Southeast Europe took place; the role of temporary covenants, imperial diplomas and customary norms in outlining the rights and duties of the tributary princes; the power relations between the Ottoman Empire and the tributary-protected principalities of Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania. He also focuses on the legal and political methods applied to extend the pax ottomanica system in the area, rather than on the elements that set these territories apart from the rest of the Ottoman Empire.