The History of the Turks describing the rise and ruin of their first empire in Persia, the original of their second : containing the lives and reigns of their several kings and emperors from Ottoman its first founder to this present year, 1683, being a succinct series of history, of all their wars (forreign and domestick) policies, customs, religion and manners, with what else is worthy of note in that great empire.
About this Item
- Title
- The History of the Turks describing the rise and ruin of their first empire in Persia, the original of their second : containing the lives and reigns of their several kings and emperors from Ottoman its first founder to this present year, 1683, being a succinct series of history, of all their wars (forreign and domestick) policies, customs, religion and manners, with what else is worthy of note in that great empire.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by Ralph Holt for Thomas Passinger ... William Thackery ... and Thomas Sawbridge ...,
- 1683.
- Rights/Permissions
-
This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Searching, reading, printing, or downloading EEBO-TCP texts is reserved for the authorized users of these project partner institutions. Permission must be granted for subsequent distribution, in print or electronically, of this text, in whole or in part. Please contact project staff at eebotcp-info@umich.edu for further information or permissions.
- Subject terms
- Turkey -- History.
- Link to this Item
-
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A60307.0001.001
- Cite this Item
-
"The History of the Turks describing the rise and ruin of their first empire in Persia, the original of their second : containing the lives and reigns of their several kings and emperors from Ottoman its first founder to this present year, 1683, being a succinct series of history, of all their wars (forreign and domestick) policies, customs, religion and manners, with what else is worthy of note in that great empire." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A60307.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
Pages
Page [unnumbered]
TO THE READER.
SInce the late Alarms the Port has given to Christendom, I have thought it both Profi∣table and Convenient, to describe the Original of that Great Em∣pire, which now spreads over near half the World, and to de∣monstrate by what means it a∣spired to its Immensity, and by what Policies maintained; as in
Page [unnumbered]
the Series of this History, it is fully and at large discoursed; not so only, but the Turks various Successes in their Wars at Land and Sea; Including their Reli∣gious Customs, Manners, and extent of that Empire, as it re∣mains at this day; being dedu∣ced from the Original of the first and second Empire, for the space of six hundred years, attended with Circumstances too tedious here to be recited. So that all may plainly comprehend how easily those Infidels might at first
Page [unnumbered]
have been hindred from Incroach∣ing, and how often (had not the Divisions of the Christians, upon which they founded their Empire) they might have been brought low; but as God, in whose Eternal Wisdom all Affairs are centered, has not of late per∣mited, and should they extend their Arms (as at this time they threaten) yet a hearty Unanimity in the Empire, and the Kings and Princes of Christendom, may through God's blessing impede the growing Greatness of this great
Page [unnumbered]
Monarch, and hinder the Effusion of Christian Blood. Here you have an impartial Account of their Rise and Ruin in the first Empire, and the Continuation of the se∣cond, to this present time; Faith∣fully Collected, which I hope will prove to the Satisfaction of the Ingenious Reader, which is all desired by,
Your Friend, I. S.