The Ottoman Military Organization in Hungary: Fortresses, Fortress Garrisons and Finances (Studien Zur Sprache, Geschichte Und Kultur der Turkvölker, 29)

No detailed description available for'The Ottoman Military Organization in Hungary'. Dedication Table of Contents List of Maps Abbreviations Preface I The Sources 1. Lists of Names of Paid Garrison Soldiers 2. Provincial Treasuries Accounts 3. Defters of Garrison Soldiers Paid with Timars 4. Lists of Units Transferred from the Capital 5. Other Sources 6. How Far Can these Sources Take Us? II Establishing the Fortress System and Aspects of Defence 1. Tasks of the Ottoman and Hungarian Fortresses 2. Fortresses Captured by the Ottomans 3. Fortress Constructions and Aspects of Defence 4. Districts of Defence III The Garrison Troops 1. The Structure of the Garrisons; Local and Central Troops 2. Types of Garrisons 3. The Total Number of Garrison Troops in Ottoman Hungary IV The Costs Borne by the Treasuries, the Income, and Living Conditions of the Soldiers 1. Payments to Soldiers Made by the Buda and Temeşvar Treasuriesin the 16th Century 2. Condition of Provincial Treasuries in the Wartime Years at the Turn of the 17th Century 3. After the Long War 4. Later Budgets of the 17th Century and the ocaklık System 5. The vilayets of Varad and Uyvar 6. The Income and Living Conditions of Soldiers 7. The Marital Status of the Soldiers 8. The Mobility of Fortress Soldiers V The Origins and Religions of Soldiers 1. The Origins of Soldiers 2. Reasons for Becoming a Soldier 3. Muslim-born Men, Converts, Christians VI The Balkan Population and Military Peasant Organisations in the Southern Parts of Ottoman Hungary 1. The Privileged reaya in Military Service in the Balkans 2. Military Peasant Organisations in the Southern Parts of the vilayets of Buda and Temeşvar 3. The Balkan Population and its Military Activities in the 17th Century VII Descriptions of Fortresses and Garrisons (Database) Preface Vilayet-i Budun Liva-i Budun Liva-i Estergon Liva-i Filek Liva-i Hatvan Liva-i İstolni Belgrad Liva-i Kopan Liva-i Novigrad Liva-i Peçuy Liva-i Segedin Liva-i Sekçöy Liva-i Seksar Liva-i Siçen Liva-i Sigetvar Liva-i Şimontorna Liva-i Solnok Vilayet-i Temeşvar Liva-i Temeşvar Liva-i Çanad Liva-i G’ula Liva-i Lipova Liva-i Modava Liva-i Yanova Vilayet-i Yanık and Papa Vilayet-i Eğri Liva-i Hatvan Liva-i Solnok Vilayet-i Kanija Liva-i Peçuy Liva-i Sigetvar Vilayet-i Varad Vilayet-i Uyvar Glossary References Index This book is the shortened and revised version of the authors? volume ?Fortresses and Fortress Garrisons in Ottoman Hungary I?III?, published in Hungarian by the Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest, 2007). This revised version contains considerable alterations in order to suit better for the needs of non-Hungarian readers. However, the book maintains the original structure: the first part is a monograph about the Ottoman border defense system and its garrison troops, the second part is a data collection concerning Ottoman fortresses. This collection is based on a wide range of sources like Ottoman pay lists (mevacib defterleri) that are kept in archives of Vienna, Istanbul, Berlin, Budapest etc., records of the treasury house that contain pay accounts (hazine defterleri), estate records (icmal defterleri) and tax censuses (mufassal defterleri).0The border of the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary remained a battlefield during the sixteenth?seventeenth centuries. Fights persisted even in-between officially declared wars, effective truces were absent in those decades in Hungary. The parties strove for expanding their influence over greater territories and above all to collect taxes. Garrison troops were assigned to ravage the other?s lands by both parties therefore the significance of these fortresses remained high even in times of formal peace. This book is the shortened and revised version of the authors' volume 'Fortresses and Fortress Garrisons in Ottoman Hungary I-III', published in Hungarian by the Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest, 2007). This revised version contains considerable alterations in order to suit better for the needs of non-Hungarian readers. However, the book maintains the original structure: the first part is a monograph about the Ottoman border defense system and its garrison troops, the second part is a data collection concerning Ottoman fortresses. This collection is based on a wide range of sources like Ottoman pay lists (mevacib defterleri) that are kept in archives of Vienna, Istanbul, Berlin, Budapest etc., records of the treasury house that contain pay accounts (hazine defterleri), estate records (icmal defterleri) and tax censuses (mufassal defterleri). The border of the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary remained a battlefield during the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries. Fights persisted even in-between officially declared wars, effective truces were absent in those decades in Hungary. The parties strove for expanding their influence over greater territories and above all to collect taxes. Garrison troops were assigned to ravage the other's lands by both parties therefore the significance of these fortresses remained high even in times of formal peace Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvlker was founded in 1980 by the Hungarian Turkologist Gyrgy Hazai. 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