ΤΗΕ ΚΑΡUDAN PASHA HIS OFFICE AND HIS DOMAIN

The Ottoman Empire prossessed an administrative naritime network extending from the Indian Ocean up to the north African frontier of the Mediterranean Sea and from Red Sea up to the great river which conbected the Turkish territories with Central Europe, the Danube. Twenty-five contributions included in this volume study the leading figure of the Ottoman naval administration, the Kapudan Pasha.