Ottoman Empire:  
Boundary Transformations 
in Space and Time
Residential College Social Sciences 460 and Middle Eastern and North African Studies 491 
Maps and Timelines in Play to Resolve Conflicts in the Eastern Mediterranean:  Italy to Israel
Winter 2005
Professor Emerita Ann E. Larimore
Case Study Timeline
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TIMELINE ARRANGED BY YEAR
Links to timelines by: millennium, century, decade, year, month, week, day, hour, minute.
Link to calendar conversion page.
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Topography and hydrology may help to shape boundary change through time:  maps showing these, along with boundary change, will reflect action through animation.   Notice the role of the Danube and other rivers, as well as mountain ranges.

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Applet showing Ottoman context

Applet centered on Suleyman I

Applet showing dates only
 
1352 Maps

---1352---Orhan grants capitulations to the Genoese; Orhan's son, Suleyman, in Adrainople; Suleyman occupies Tzympe; beginning of the Ottoman conquests in Thrace.
 
 

 

The Mediterranen in a global context: 

animated maps may show changing contexts in space, in time, and in space/time.
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