Ottoman And Dutch Merchants In The Eighteenth Century

Download or read book Ottoman and Dutch Merchants in the Eighteenth Century written by Ismail Hakkı Kadı and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-05-25 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyses the dynamics between the non-Muslim merchant elites of Ankara and Izmir (mostly Greeks and Armenians) and their European competitors in the eighteenth century. In particular, it investigates two major developments: the Dutch attempts to penetrate the mohair trade in Ankara and the local resistance they faced, and the Ottoman non-Muslim merchant’s infiltration of the Dutch Levant trade and the Dutch reaction to this form of Ottoman 'expansion'.