Vryonis, Speros - The Byzantine Legacy and Ottoman Forms.pdf

The Byzantine Legacy and Ottoman Forms
Author(s): Speros Vryonis, Jr.
Source: Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol. 23, (1969 - 1970), pp. 251-308
Published by: Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University
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THE BYZANTINE LEGACY
AND OTTOMAN FORMS
SPEROS VRYONIS, JR.
This paper was read at a Symposium entitled "After the
Fall of Constantinople," held at Dumbarton Oaks in May 1968.
Note: In translating Turkish, Arabic, and Persian words I have followed a
modified version of the system used in the new edition of the Encyclopaedia
of Islam. ., Jr.
PART ONE
^F ROM the early Christianera until the eighteenth century, when the
Ottoman Empire began to disintegrate as a result of external blows
and internal separatism, the inhabitants of extensive regions in the
Balkans and Asia Minor experienced the political domination of two "world
empires." The polyglot mu