Volume 1

A full and just account of the present state of the Ottoman Empire in all its brances: with the government, and policy, religion, customs, and way of living of the Turks, in general ... from a serious observations, taken in many years travels thro' those countries / By Aaron Hill.

  • Aaron Hill
Date:
1709
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Credit: A full and just account of the present state of the Ottoman Empire in all its brances: with the government, and policy, religion, customs, and way of living of the Turks, in general ... from a serious observations, taken in many years travels thro' those countries / By Aaron Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    —__“• THE Succeffors of Mahomet by yearly Acquifitions enlarg’d their Territories in Europe and Afa ; which at lad not contenting them, the Victorious Seljm extended his Dominion over Syria and Egypt; ^ bringing the Arabians under his Authority, and raifing the Foundation of a Larger Contjnua(;[„ Power, on the bloody Ruin of the Subverted Mam al tikes^ . fince when, on 0f their the latter Sultans have added to their Dominions moll of the I Hands inHiftofy. the Aigean Sea ; Rhodes, with thofe Noble Knights, who fo vigoroufly De¬ fended the Seat of their Order, fubmitted at lait, to the Irrefiltible Power of the Succefsful Solyman; Cyprus was oblig’d to fall before the Conquering Armies of the Second Selym ; and lince then, lb prodigioufly have they fpread their Conquells, that they now enjoy a free, and unmoleiled Poi- felTion of the Nob left Parts of Afa, Europe, and the Remoter Africa, on which Extenfive Foundation, they have certainly built the moft abfolute Empire, and Arbitrary Monarchy, that has ever flouniii’d fince the Worlds Original. FOR Firft, the Wefiern Part of its European Dominion, is extended to the very Borders of the once-lolt Hungary, ftretching to the. Adriatick by the Ragufean Confines, bounded on the South by the Mediterranean Sea, on the Eaji with Pontus, Propontis and the Age an, even to the Scythian Lhe>foneJuj’, Extent of the Poland and Ruff a fcarce bound its Northern Limits. Within this vaft Extent Tutkigz.™p*r~- of Empire are contain’d, the fertil Territories of the fam’d Romania, Ser¬ bia,, Rafcia, and Bulgaria : Valachia and Moldavia pay 1 ribute to its f ow- er ; Albania, Epirus, Macedonia, Bofnia and Greece, are now entirely 1 urkijh ; and the fruitful Illands of the JEgean Sea, with thofe of Candy, Rhodes, and Cyprus, acknowledge now no Lord but him. HIS Afiatick Territories contain that vaft Trad of Land between the Their Em. Euxine, Cilician, and JEgean Seas; viz. Bithynia, Pontus, Phrygia, Galatia,1 Lycia, Cappadocia, Pawphylia, Cilicia, and the vaft Extent of Armenia Mi¬ nor ; ftretching Northward from Colchis to Catai, and Eajlward to the inac- ceflible Mountains of the Hardy Georgians. Armenia Major is now moftiy theirs ; Babylonia, Mefopotamia, Phoenicia, Cwlojyria, and Palefine, aie al¬ together in the Turks Pofleflion, as ate the vaft Dominions of the I hree Arabians, I N Africa it ftretches along the unmeafur’d Coafts of the Mediterranean i Their Dotni* from the Red-Sea to the inmoft Parts of the Mauritanian Country, inclu- ions in Ri¬ ding Tripoli, Tunis, fez, Algiers, and Morocco, fo vaftly Large are the ufurp’d Dominions of thefe encroaching Infidels: But that the Reader may more plainly comprehend the Whole by a Mealure of fome Parts% I have Calculated the following Account tor his more particular Satis¬ faction. PALVSMoeotis entirely his,fpreads full a Thoufand Miles into the Land; The Circuit of the Euxine or Black-Sea contains at leall Two T hou- fand Six Hundred Miles ; Three Thoufand I wo Hundred Miles fcarce compafs Egypt; and as much of the Mediterranean Coaft as is fubjecx to the Turk, contains above Seven Thoufand Miles in compafs; From the Ca)plan Derbent to Aden on the Red-Sea is Three T lioufand and odd Miies; and near Four Thoufand Miles from Tremefen in Barbary to Baljora on the Per- fan Gulf. So that the amazing Conquefts of the Macedonian Alexander zxq fwallow’d at a Morfel, by the fwifter Acquifitions of a Modern Empire The ftupendious Victories of the fuccefsful Jews outdone by thefe ; The mighty Power of the Egyptian Monarchs intire]y baffled by the Turhijh Soldiers ; The Grecian Empire, once fo famous for its Military Atchieve- ments, divided into Provinces by One far Greater ; Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Lacedxmonia, and thofe numerous Governments, io fam’d for their aboun- B 2