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Comprises Evliya's account of the West-Anatolian city of Manisa and surrounding region. Evliya visited Manisa on his way to the Holy cities in 1671 and described it in great detail. This critical edition of a portion of the Seyahat-name is based on two Istanbul manuscripts, Topkapi Sarayi/Bagdat Kosku 306 and Suleymaniye/Besir Aga 452. The introduction is followed by the text edition with parallel German translation. A commentary explains numerous concepts of material culture and compares Evliya's information with other Ottoman and Western primary sources. Included as supplements are excerpts from two major works of Ottoman cosmography: Asik Mehmed b. Omer b. Bayezid, Menaziru'l-avalim and Katib Celebi, Cihan-numa

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'.. .will be a standard reference whenever information is needed on Ottoman Manisa.'<br>J.M. Rogers, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, 2000.<br>

'...will be a standard reference whenever information is needed on Ottoman Manisa.' J.M. Rogers, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, 2000.

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Nuran Tezcan, Dr.phil. (1996), University of Bamberg. She has edited a sizeable Ottoman Masnavi (Lāmi‘īs Gūy u Çevgān, (Franz Steiner, 1994) and has published a lexicon of basic Turkish (Elementarwortschatz Türkish-Deutsch, (Otto Harrassowitz, 1988).

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