Human Circus: Journeys in the Medieval World Osman of Timisoara 5: Osman's Great Escape
Oct 28, 2025
45:51
Osman flees Vienna and reaches freedom, with success and suffering on the other side.
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Sources:
- Osman Aga of Timisoara. Prisoner of the Infidels. Edited, translated, and introduced by Giancarlo Casale. University of California Press, 2021.
- Olin, Timothy. The Banat of Temesvar: Borderland Colonization in the Habsburg Monarchy. Stanford University Press, 2025.
- Yaycıoğlu, Ali. "On the Ottoman Arguments during the Congress of Karlowitz (1699)," in Territorial Imaginaries: Beyond the Sovereign Map, edited by Kären Wigen. University of Chicago Press, 2025.
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