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Journal Article
Representations of the Frontier in Ottoman Town Views of the Sixteenth Century
2008
Overview
City views, one of the most distinctive and ubiquitous features of sixteenth-century Ottoman manuscript illustration, were used to document the territorial expansion of the Ottoman Empire and to map its expanding frontiers. This study examines the portrayal of the frontiers of the Ottoman Empire in one famous group of manuscripts from the mid-sixteenth century, Matrakçı Nasuh's Histories of the House of Osman. This body of work, which includes four unique illustrated volumes, was the first to use city views and topographical paintings as a means of representing the geographical limits of the Ottoman state. The idea of representing the frontier through town views was in some respects well suited to the geopolitical realities of the Ottoman borderlands, which were fluid, discontinuous and defined mostly by claims on frontier towns. City views offered a vision of the Ottoman Empire as the sum of its territorial acquisitions and allowed members of the ruling elite who collected the images to imagine their empire in these terms.
