Galata and the Capitulations - a podcast by Ottoman History Podcast

The capitulations, a series of bilateral agreements with European states and merchants, are sometimes held up as symbols of early Ottoman concessions to European powers and the beginnings of Ottoman economic decline. This misreading, which is in part the product of a misinterpretation of the word "capitulation" itself, impedes a proper understanding of Ottoman Empire and the legal context of the early modern Mediterranean. In this episode, Fariba Zarinebaf offers a different look at the capitulations orahdnameswithin the broader context of law and diplomacy in Ottoman Galata and other port cities.

Episode No. 144
Release date: 8 February 2014
Editing and production by Chris Gratien

Citation: "Galata, Ottoman Ports, and the Capitulations," Fariba Zarinebaf, Nir Shafir, and Zoe Griffith,Ottoman History Podcast, No. 144 (8 Feburary 2014) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/02/ottoman-empire-capitulations.html.

Griffith is a doctoral candidate at Brown University studying the early
modern Mediterranean - See more at:http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2011/11/ottoman-lebanon-property.html#sthash.qU9EtwKA.dpuf

Zoe
Griffith is a doctoral candidate at Brown University studying the earlymodern Mediterranean - See more at:
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2011/11/ottoman-lebanon-property.html#sthash.qU9EtwKA.dpuf