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Ramazan Hakkı Öztan @roztan.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

The Department of History at Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social hosts Dr. Uğur Zekeriya Peçe @ugurpece.bsky.social for a talk titled "Bury the Hatchet: Civil War and Peace in Ottoman Crete" on September 30 (Tuesday), 18.00-20.00. For more information, see www.tcd.ie/ahss/news-an...

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Uğur Zekeriya Peçe @ugurpece.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Island & Empire is one year old already, here pictured next to a rose plucked from the mountains of Sfakia, Crete. As the book turns one year old, I'm happy to share reviews by two historians I admire: Ella Fratantuono and Laura Robson. @stanfordpress.bsky.social

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Uğur Zekeriya Peçe @ugurpece.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Looking forward to talking about an island & an empire!

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Uğur Zekeriya Peçe @ugurpece.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I reviewed Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular's wonderful book "The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina" for JOTSA. Link and text below for those interested. www.academia.edu/127813727/Re...

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Uğur Zekeriya Peçe @ugurpece.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

If you're in Athens, I'd love to see you at my book talk. To join remotely, please register in advance: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Uğur Zekeriya Peçe @ugurpece.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Sound of mountains in Sfakia, Crete.

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Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Please share: Call for Applications Winter School: Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources March 17-25, 2025, Rethymno (Greece), IMS/FORTH www.ims.forth.gr/en/news-item...

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Call for Applications - Winter School "Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources"

Call for ApplicationsWinter SchoolReading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources March 17-25, 2025 Rethymno (Greece), Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH

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Uğur Zekeriya Peçe @ugurpece.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

In many Ottoman mosques one sees the following part of the 37th verse of the sura Al-i İmran written on the top part of the mihrab: "Whenever Zachariah visited her (Mary) in the sanctuary (mihrab)." The photo here is from the famous mihrab of Hagia Sophia. And there are many other similar examples.

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Uğur Zekeriya Peçe @ugurpece.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Congratulations, Zozan! Looking forward to reading it.

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Uğur Zekeriya Peçe @ugurpece.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Late Ottomanist: The CUP

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Uğur Zekeriya Peçe @ugurpece.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Tell me you're in Greece without telling me you're in Greece.

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Uğur Zekeriya Peçe @ugurpece.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

In August 1906, the French consul, together with the commander of the French forces in Crete, visited the tiny island of Spinalonga, 750 metres away from the coast of Crete (photo on the left is from chapter 3 of Island & Empire). Today it was I who was on a boat.

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Uğur Zekeriya Peçe @ugurpece.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Spinalonga is a tiny island off the coast of Crete. It's known for its impressive Venetian fortress but also for being turned into a leper colony in 1903 which remained open till the 1950s. I'm going there tomorrow for the first time. Curious & excited. Will keep you posted.

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Uğur Zekeriya Peçe @ugurpece.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I'm very excited that I'll be talking about my book on the island where it was conceived years ago! Tonight at 8:30pm. We are on a Mediterranean time, so we better call this book premiere instead of book talk :)

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