Guliyev, Ahmad (2022) Venice's Knowledge of the Qizilbash-The Importance of the Role of the Venetian Baili in Intelligence-Gathering on the Safavids. ACTA ORIENTALIA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE, 75 (1). pp. 79-97. ISSN 0001-6446
|
Text
1588-2667-article-p79.pdf Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial. Download (516kB) | Preview |
Abstract
While the subject of the Venetian espionage in the Ottoman empire has received scholarly attention, no attempt has been made to study the baili's intelligence-gathering activities on Safavid issues in a system-atic way. Through the close scrutiny of baili dispatches and other relevant materials of the Venetian State archives, this paper examines the role of the Venetian diplomats in Istanbul in information-gathering on the Safavids. It demonstrates that the baili used various techniques, particularly gifting, bribery, and informa-tion exchange with the Ottoman officials in order to collect and transmit to Venice a wide range of informa-tion on Ottomans' arch-rivals, the Safavids.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | Funding Agency and Grant Number: European Union [789632] Funding text: The paper was written within a research project titled 'SAFVEN-West meets East in Venice: Cross-cultural interactions and reciprocal influences between the Safavids and Venetians' financed from the support of European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship grant agreement No 789632. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Intelligence; history; Espionage; Safavids; Ottoman-Safavid relations; Venetian baili; information-gathering; |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World / történelem > D0 History (General) / történelem általában P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PI Oriental languages and literatures / keleti nyelvek és irodalmak |
| SWORD Depositor: | MTMT SWORD |
| Depositing User: | MTMT SWORD |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Nov 2022 07:03 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2022 07:03 |
| URI: | http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/153554 |
Actions (login required)
 |
Edit Item |
