The Helonaki Deep Dive 2.5

The Ottomans Get Involved

Release date: May 12, 2022

Map of Eastern Mediterranean Sea with an inset map of the Peloponnese with the locations of Venice, Constantinople, Vienna, Nicaea, Ankara, Corfu, Gallipoli, Cyprus, Crete, Corinth, Vostitsa, Patras, Modon, Coron, Mistra, Monemvasia, Delphi, Thebes, Athens, Naupaktos, Argos, Nauplio, Navarino, and Glarentza indicated.

Description:

The Ottoman Empire started as one of many Turkish tribes in Western Anatolia in the 1200s, but eventually conquered a vast region, including the Byzantine Empire and the Morea. Here we discuss their history and how they took control of the Morea.

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  • The Early Ottoman Peloponnese (Liakopoulos, 2019) Bookshop
  • Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire (Finkel, 2007) Bookshop
  • The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300 - 1600 (Inalcik, 1973) Worldcat
  • An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, volume 1 1300 - 1600 (Inalcik, 1997) Bookshop
  • The Late Medieval Balkans (Fine, 1994) Bookshop
  • The Oxford History of Byzantium (Mango, 2002) Bookshop
  • Byzantium Between the Ottomans and the Latins (Necipoglu, 2009) Bookshop
  • Byzantium: The Decline and Fall (Norwich, 1996) Worldcat
  • A History of Venice (Norwich, 1989) Bookshop
  • Venice: A New History (Madden, 2013) Bookshop
  • The Morea, 1311 - 1364 in A History of the Crusades vol. 3 (Topping, 1975) University of Wisconsin Digital Collection
  • The Morea, 1364 - 1460 in A History of the Crusades vol. 3 (Topping, 1975) University of Wisconsin Digital Collection

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Theme music by Dan-O

Additional sounds from Zapsplat

The Helonaki Deep Dive is written and produced by Jen Glaubius of The Helonaki