What are the three main factors that contributed to the growth of the Ottoman Empire after its emergence in northwestern Anatolia?

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The Ottoman Empire: Institutions and Economic Change, 1500–1914

  • Şevket PamukDepartment of Economics and Economic History, Bogaziçi University

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The Ottoman Empire in the Long Sixteenth Century

Renaissance Quarterly

Vol. 70, No. 1 (2017)

, pp. 220-234 (15 pages)

Published By: Cambridge University Press

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26560197

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Renaissance Quarterly is the leading American journal of Renaissance studies, encouraging connections between different scholarly approaches to bring together material spanning the period from 1300 to 1700 in Western history. The official journal of the Renaissance Society of America, RQ presents about twenty articles and over five hundred reviews per year, engaging the following disciplines: Americas, Art and Architecture, Book History, Classical Tradition, Comparative Literature, Digital Humanities, Emblems, English Literature, French Literature, Germanic Literature, Hebraica, Hispanic Literature, History, Humanism, Islamic World, Italian Literature, Legal and Political Thought, Medicine and Science, Music, Neo-Latin Literature, Performing Arts and Theater, Philosophy, Religion, Rhetoric and Women and Gender.

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Population Changes in Ottoman Anatolia during the 16th and 17th Centuries: The "Demographic Crisis" Reconsidered

International Journal of Middle East Studies

Vol. 36, No. 2 (May, 2004)

, pp. 183-205 (23 pages)

Published By: Cambridge University Press

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3880031

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