Transcript The Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire

The Republic of Venice and
the Ottoman Empire
Creating Empires in the Mediterranean
• I Venice
• 1000 Doge Pietro Orsoleo’s Journey down the Adriatic
• Venice and the Byzantine Empire
• 12th c. First Crusade
• 13th c. Fourth Crusade
• 14th c. difficulties for Venice
• 15th c. apex of Venetian power
• II Ottoman Empire
• 1071 defeat of Byzantine army in Eastern Anatolia
• 1204-61 Latin Christian Empire
• 13th c. Mongol Empire to Middle East pushing Turcoman peoples West
• 14th c. expansion West
• 1402-13 defeat at Battle of Ankara and civil war
• 15th c. expansion and consolidation of power
Daniel Goffman, ‘The Ottoman-Venetian Association’
• Frontier society
• Accommodation
• Coexistence
• Diplomacy
• Emulation
Monique O’Connell, Men of Empire: Power and
Negotiation in Venice’s Maritime State (2009)
‘the Venetian state relied on negotiations
conducted through patronage, family
connections, and the judicial system to
bridge the gaps of geographic separation,
local and regional particularism, and multiple
languages and legal traditions in its maritime
state’ (12).