Seventeenth-Century Ottoman-Habsburg Border Relations, Kleinkrieg and Micro-Diplomacy /Onyedinci Yüzyıl Osmanlı-Habsburg Sınır İlişkileri, Kleinkrieg ve Mikro-Diplomasi
Journal: OpenMETU (Middle East Technical University)
Year: 2019

This study will deal with the Ottoman-Habsburg border relations in the first half of the seventeenth century by focusing on a series of private letters exchanged between the Pashas of Buda and their equivalents in Habsburg civil service. These documents were preserved in the archives of Palatin Esterhazy and published by the Hungarian scholar, Fekete Lajos. These private communications focus on cross-border problems concerning both states where the mutual efforts for their settlement provided a