Essays about: "Ottoman Empire"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 15 essays containing the words Ottoman Empire.

  1. 6. A Tribute to Reason: An Appraisal of the 1860 Beirut Tribunal and Commission in light of the 1945 Nuremberg Tribunal

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för Mellanösternstudier

    Author : Fé Doron de Jonge; [2018]
    Keywords : international criminal law; international criminal tribunals; history of international law; Middle Eastern Studies; Ottoman Empire; Middle Eastern History; Lebanon; Law and Political Science; History and Archaeology; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The Nuremberg International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg IMT), created in 1945, has been put forward by international legal scholars as the first international criminal tribunal, and the starting point of international criminal justice. However, throughout history, there have been other initiatives to try individuals for mass atrocities on the international level, comparable to the Nuremberg IMT to varying degrees. READ MORE

  3. 7. Albania, a place where long-standing traditions devised a nation : The Kanun of Lek Dukagjini is alive and kicking

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Arjana Lugaj; [2018]
    Keywords : albania; kanun; law; blood revenge; identity;

    Abstract : Albania is a young democratic country that is still learning how to move forward. Albania has lived under regimes not democratically chosen for centuries: the Ottoman Empire before and the Communist regime than. READ MORE

  4. 8. "No need to exaggerate" : - The 1914 Ottoman Jihad declaration in genocide historiography

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

    Author : Jonathan Dangoor; [2017]
    Keywords : Armenian Genocide; WWI; Assyrian Genocide; Greek Genocide; Pontic Greeks; Jihad; Ottoman Empire; Assyrians; Arameans; Young Turks; Ottoman Christians;

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  5. 9. Mapping Port-Towns from the 16th to 19th centuries: Stockholm and Thessaloniki

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Angelos Kastritis; [2016]
    Keywords : Thessaloniki; Stockholm; maps; city-plans; town-views; early modern; urban studies; urbanisation; city-planning; urban plans;

    Abstract :   This study investigates maps and town-views of two port towns, Stockholm and Ottoman Thessaloniki, in the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These four centuries of early modern era are very important for the history of these ports and the historical changes made in this period affected the cartographic image of both cities. READ MORE

  6. 10. The Terrible Turk : Anti-Ottoman Representations in the 19th Century Swedish Rural Press

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, KV

    Author : Per M. Gjörloff; Robert Gustafsson; [2013]
    Keywords : Ottomans; islamophobia; 19th century; rural press;

    Abstract : Islamophobia has been pack and parcel in the Western civilisation from the days of Charlemagne via the Crusades and the rise of Orientalism, as opposed to Occidentalism, to the modern day reporting of Islamic terrorist threat. Many were fascinated by the degree of civilisation and the exoticism of the Ottomans, especially the sexual virtues (or lack thereof) were of particular interest of the travellers into the Ottoman Empire. READ MORE