… of Ottoman society and the rise of banditry. Finally, I demonstrate how the state turned its
relations with the bandits … , as a prominent example of the Ottoman route to state consolidation. …

… Ottoman state centralization in the seventeenth century, a period which most historians
interpret as one of state … determined argument on Ottoman state centralization, we argue here …

Τα τελευταία χρόνια παρατηρείτε καί στη χώρα μας ένα εκδοτικό ενδιαφέρον για μελέτες
σχετικές με την Οθωμανι κή Αυτοκρατορία. Στο πλαίσιο αυτού του διανοητικού κλίματος, είναι …

… between bandits and bureaucrats, and concluded that the early modern Ottoman state …
with bandits and co-opting them into its bureaucracy. This was largely, she argued, because …

… and merchants; peasants and peddlers; bandits and bureaucrats. Even though the empire
lasted … process of bureaucratization and centralization without inciting anti-state rebellions.…

… Like other elements in the narrative, such references to Ottoman bureaucratic practices for
… to the discourse about the Çandarlı and centralization. It is to this point that we will now turn. …

… limited to the hunt and to hunting bandits for he was not to take … of a state bureaucracy, a
machine to run the affairs of state … One is, that the Ottoman programme of centralisation at the …

… polity regarding financial difficulties and the monarch’s struggle to centralize against the …
power, but the fact that both Ottoman bureaucrats and regional rulers cooperated with each …

… ranks of the regional state bureaucracy, the establishment … Ottoman state centralized mostly
through negotiation and incorporation of bandit armies that were largely the product of state …

… bandits and the state would seem an anomaly in the Western European state centralization
… on an evolution of rational bureaucracy, the Ottoman state developed a flexible structure of …