A departure from our usual historical period for the 17th-century story of Osman Agha of Timisoara, an Ottoman soldier taken prisoner in the years after the Battle of Vienna.

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Sources:

Osman Agha of Timisoara. Prisoner of the Infidels. Edited, translated, and introduced by Giancarlo Casale. University of California Press, 2021.
Finkel, Caroline. Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire. Basic Books, 2005.

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Osman of Timisoara 1: Prisoner of the Infidels