Uğur Zekeriya Peçe
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Uğur Zekeriya Peçe
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Historian @LehighU | author of Island & Empire | previously @BardCollege & @Harvard | PhD @Stanford | BA Economics @UniBogazici | https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/island-and-empire
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The Department of History at Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social hosts Dr. Uğur Zekeriya Peçe @ugurpece.bsky.social for a talk titled "Bury the Hatchet: Civil War and Peace in Ottoman Crete" on September 30 (Tuesday), 18.00-20.00.
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September 17, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Island & Empire is one year old already, here pictured next to a rose plucked from the mountains of Sfakia, Crete. As the book turns one year old, I'm happy to share reviews by two historians I admire: Ella Fratantuono and Laura Robson.
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July 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Looking forward to talking about an island & an empire!
April 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I reviewed Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular's wonderful book "The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina" for JOTSA. Link and text below for those interested.

www.academia.edu/127813727/Re...
February 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
December 9, 2024 at 8:17 PM
If you're in Athens, I'd love to see you at my book talk.

To join remotely, please register in advance:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
December 3, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Rainbow off the coast of Crete
December 1, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Sound of mountains in Sfakia, Crete.
November 29, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Call for Applications
Winter School: Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources
March 17-25, 2025, Rethymno (Greece), IMS/FORTH
www.ims.forth.gr/en/news-item...
Call for Applications - Winter School "Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources"
Call for ApplicationsWinter SchoolReading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources March 17-25, 2025 Rethymno (Greece), Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH
www.ims.forth.gr
November 28, 2024 at 2:34 PM
In many Ottoman mosques one sees the following part of the 37th verse of the sura Al-i İmran written on the top part of the mihrab: "Whenever Zachariah visited her (Mary) in the sanctuary (mihrab)."
The photo here is from the famous mihrab of Hagia Sophia. And there are many other similar examples.
November 26, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Congratulations, Zozan! Looking forward to reading it.
November 24, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Optimist: the cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Late Ottomanist: The CUP
Optimist: the cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Ottomanist: the cup is but a small receptacle for the tears caught from the brow of my beloved.
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Chemist: DO NOT DRINK THAT
November 24, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Tell me you're in Greece without telling me you're in Greece.
November 24, 2024 at 7:31 AM
In August 1906, the French consul, together with the commander of the French forces in Crete, visited the tiny island of Spinalonga, 750 metres away from the coast of Crete (photo on the left is from chapter 3 of Island & Empire). Today it was I who was on a boat.
November 23, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Spinalonga is a tiny island off the coast of Crete. It's known for its impressive Venetian fortress but also for being turned into a leper colony in 1903 which remained open till the 1950s. I'm going there tomorrow for the first time. Curious & excited. Will keep you posted.
November 22, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Rethymno, Crete
November 21, 2024 at 5:26 PM
I'm very excited that I'll be talking about my book on the island where it was conceived years ago! Tonight at 8:30pm. We are on a Mediterranean time, so we better call this book premiere instead of book talk :)
November 20, 2024 at 3:09 PM