Evliya Çelebi in Bitlis : the relevant section of The seyahatname
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Evliya Çelebi in Bitlis : the relevant section of The seyahatname
（Evliya Çelebi's book of travels : land and people of the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century : a corpus of partial editions / edited by Klaus Kreiser, v. 2）
E.J. Brill, 1990
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Seyâhatnâme
Bitlis
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Spine title: Bitlis
In Turkish with roman transcription and English translation
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xvii]-xx) and index
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In 1655 and 1656 Evliya Celebi found himself three different times in the eastern Anatolian town of Bitlis, the center of a quasi-independent Kurdish khanate having a long and tumultuous relationship with the Ottoman state. The account of Evliya's adventures in Bitlis, including a major expedition against the khan mounted by Evliya's patron Melek Ahmed Pasha, the Ottoman governor of Van, forms a coherent narrative which deserves to be studied on its own.
The centerpiece of the book is a critical edition of three long extracts, amounting to forty-three folios of the autograph ms., form volumes IV and V of the Seyahat- name, along with an annotated English translation on facing pages. The introduction discusses the narratological, historical, and linguistic aspects of the text, and there is a complete index of proper names.
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