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Suraiya FAROQHI INTRODUCTION

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The Venice connection Maria Pia PEDANI FABRIS Between Diplomacy and Trade: Ottoman merchants in Venice
Benjamin ARBEL

Operating Trading Networks in Times of War: A sixteenthcentury Venetian patrician between public service and private affairs Vera CONSTANTINI Venetian Trade and the Boundaries of Legality in Early Modern Ottoman Cyprus Gilles VEINSTEIN Les marchands trangers dans l'Empire ottoman (XVIeXVIIIe sicles). Questions de prix
Suraiya FAROQHI

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Honour and Hurt Feelings: Complaints addressed to an Ottoman merchant trading in Venice Ottoman traders in an eighteenth-century context
Vassiliki SEIRINIDOU

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Grocers and Wholesalers, Ottomans and Habsburgs, Foreigners and 'Our Own': The Greek trade diasporas in Central Europe, seventeenth to nineteenth centuries Olga KATSIARDI-HERING The Allure of Red Cotton Yarn, and how it Came to Vienna: Associations of Greek artisans and merchants operating between the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires

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Katerina PAPAKONSTANTINOU

The Pondikas Merchant Family from Thessaloniki, ca. 17501800 133 Nicolas Pissis Investments in the Greek Merchant Marine (1783-1821) . . 151
Daniel PANZAC

Les affrteurs de navires Istanbul dans la seconde moiti du XVIIIe sicle 165
Markus KOLLER

The Penjez - Some Remarks on a Merchant Family in Eighteenth-century Ottoman Bosnia 179 'Foreign' merchants on Ottoman territory
Murt IZAKA and Macit KENANOLU

Ottoman Merchants and the Jurisprudential Shift Hypothesis.

Oliver Jens SCHMITT

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Sur la voie de la bourgeoisie d'affaires? L'lite sociale levantine Galata-Pra et Smyrne au XIX e sicle 215
Marie-Carmen SMYRNELIS

Ngociants de Smyrne aux XVIII e et XIX e sicles . . . .

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Mafalda A D E Ottoman Commercial Law and its Practice in Aleppo Province (1850-1880) 243

The vicissitudes of modern times

Alp Yiicel KAYA

In the Hinterland of Izmir: Mid-nineteenth century traders facing a new type of fiscal practice 261 Mustafa ERDEM KABADAYI Mkrdich Cezayirliyan or the Sharp Rise and Sudden Fall of an Ottoman Entrepreneur 281
BIBLIOGRAPHIES NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 301 335