HIST 219 Lecture 14: Lecture 14.docx
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Empire is a place of backwardness and decline: viewed islam with contempt, and thought that living in ottoman. Empire meant that a person was reactionary: sephardic jews were frozen in time unworthy of investigation. Sephardic jews in the early modern, 16-18th century: by the end of the 1600s, the ruler sultan rules vast domain, boundaries extend from hungary to yemen in the south, algeria to. Iran: living in two regions in the empire: north africa, and levant (balkans, Adriatic coast, turkey: large towns and cities in this region, lived amongst other ethnic groups. In ottoman cities, non-muslims represented the majority: greek, bulgarian, turkish, diversity supported by ottoman leaders, encouraged to move to cities to stimulate the economy, 1906, population of istanbul was 50% muslim, 20% greek. Orthodox, 5. 5% jewish, 15% foreigner: salonika, 1907: 39% jewish, 29% muslim, 25% greek. Call it the jerusalem of the balkans .
