THE INTRODUCTION OF COFFEE AND TOBACCO TO THE MID-WEST BALKANS
THE INTRODUCTION OF COFFEE AND TOBACCO TO THE MID-WEST BALKANS
Author(s): Aleksandar FotićSubject(s): Cultural history, Geography, Regional studies, Social history, Islam studies, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, 16th Century, 17th Century, The Ottoman Empire
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: coffee; tobacco; social life; Ottoman Empire; Balkans in the 16th–18th centuries;
Summary/Abstract: Based on many sources, the paper makes an attempt to identify the social effects produced by the rising use of coffee and tobacco in the Balkans, and to mark out similarities and differences with respect to associated developments in other parts of the Ottoman Empire and in the European countries. The Balkans was a very interesting contact zone where influences of two civilisations intermingled and where all developments were largely dependent on the attitude of the majority population, the non-Muslim Ottoman subjects.
Journal: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- Issue Year: 64/2011
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 89-100
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English
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