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LORDS OF THE HORIZONS Jason Goodwin is an award-winning travel writer and historian. His first book, The Gunpowder Gardens: Travels through India and China in Search of Tea, was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Awards, 1991, and his second, On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul, was the winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, 1993. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed detective series set in 1840s Istanbul and featuring Yashim the Eunuch. He lives in Dorset with his wife and four children. ALSO BY JASON GOODWIN Fiction The Janissary Tree The Snake Stone The Bellini Card An Evil Eye Non-fiction The Gunpowder Gardens: Travels through India and China in Search of Tea On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul JASON GOODWIN Lords of the Horizons A History of the Ottoman Empire VINTAGE BOOKS London This eBook is copyright material and must not be copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law. Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author’s and publisher’s rights and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly. Version 1.0 Epub ISBN 9781446420157 www.randomhouse.co.uk Published by Vintage 1999 16 18 20 19 17 15 Copyright © Jason Goodwin 1998 Jason Goodwin has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser First published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus 1998 Vintage Random House, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 2SA www.vintage-books.co.uk Addresses for companies within The Random House Group Limited can be found at: www.randomhouse.co.uk/offices.htm The Random House Group Limited Reg. No. 954009 A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 9780099994008 Contents Map of the Ottoman Empire Introduction Prologue Part I Curves and Arabesques 1. Origins 2. The Balkans 3. Thunderbolt 4. The Siege 5. The Centre 6. The Palace 7. War 8. Suleyman the Magnificent 9. Order 10. Cities 11. The Sea 12. Rhythms Part II The Turkish Time 13. The Turkish Time 14. Stalemate 15. The Cage 16. The Spiral 17. The Empire Part III Hoards 18. Hoards 19. Koprulu and Vienna 20. Austria and Russia 21. Ayan 22. Shamming 23. Borderlands 24. The Auspicious Event 25. The Bankrupt Epilogue Ottoman Sultans An Ottoman Chronology Glossary Bibliography Acknowledgements These songs will not be to everyone’s taste, for there is little variation among them, all of them containing the same words, such as: hero, knight, horseman, galley slave, serpent, dragon, wolf, lion, falcon, eagle, falcon’s nest and sword, sabres, lances, Kraljevic, Kobilic, Zdrinovic, necklets, medallions, decrees, heads chopped off, slaves carried away, etc. May those who find them pleasing sing them; may those who do not, go off to sleep. Andrija Kacic-Miosic, The Pleasant Conversation of the Slavic People, Venice, 1756
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