Evliya Çelebis Krimbericht
Journal: SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología
Year: 2020

This article describes the Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi’s account of the Crimean Khanate in the mid-17th century, starting with a general introduction to author and work and an overview of his itinerary on the Crimea. In the light of the khanate’s special position among the Ottoman dependencies on the one hand and the changes in the power balance between khan and sultan during this period on the other, several passages of Evliya’s account are examined with regard to his depiction of the Giray