… 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 …

… cooptation, the state did cope with … a state-building project other than minimizing the loss
of control? The later history of the Ottoman state suggests that what Barkey terms centralization …

… in the countryside to legitimize its centralization efforts. The main dilemma in this study is
the characterization of the Ottoman state and its success in structuring society in such a way …

… The study, then, is that of state centralization, and of concomitant social movements, … elite,
and bandits. It is a story of the use of bandits to consolidate territory and to centralize control. It …

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 …

… their ties to the imperial state. Barkey argues that from this tumultuous period in Ottoman
history, we can deduce a pattern of state formation and state centralization that is full of …

… 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 …

… The Ottoman state used prebendalism (the timar system) and … Rather than being anti-state
rebels, Ottoman bandits were … Demobilized after the campaign, they resorted to banditry, …

… the state (… bandits in the interest of centralization. The celdli rebellions, so long regarded
as a major setback in the history of Ottoman statehood, thus becomes a means of centralization. …