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Oct 2021
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Yonca Köksal on Ottoman modernisation fr...

WILLIAM ARMSTRONG
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Yonca Köksal on “The Ottoman Empire in the Tanzimat Era: Provincial Perspectives from Ankara to Edirne” (Routledge). The book compares the empire's modernising, centralising reforms of the 19th century in the Balkan province of Edirne and the central Anatolian province of Ankara.

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