GUARDING SULTAN MURAD IV’S FRONTIER: AN ATTEMPT AT CONTEXTUALISING THE HUNGARIAN GARRISONS AROUND 1630
Journal: Anadolu ve Balkan Araştırmaları Dergisi
Year: 2022

Tangible evidence regarding Ottoman military entity in the early modern period is provided by the frontier garrisons. Therefore, studies of Ottoman military history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have started to focus on the garrisons on the Hungarian frontier. The present study undertakes a similar attempt but with a particular focus on the border garrisons stationed in the European provinces of the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Sultan Murad IV (r. 1623-1640). Both provincial (