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Trade, Traders and the State in Eighteenth-Century Erzurum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Neşe Erim
Neşe Erim*
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Marmara University, Istanbul, Department of History
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In the present paper, we deal with traders who crossed the border between the Ottoman Empire and Iran during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. These merchants are at once a topic of much scholarly debate and virtually unknown. Little trace has survived of their everyday activities, but they are repeatedly mentioned in Niels Steensgaard's well-known work on pedlars and European companies, in which he has analyzed the activities of merchants who confronted two great “protection-producing” and “redistributive” empires, namely the Ottoman and the Safavid, and who also needed to cope with competition from the European regulated companies (Steensgaard, 1974, pp. 22-59). Larger capital resources, advance knowledge of markets, and a commercial organization which enabled traders to take advantage of seasonally low prices were the companies’ advantages, while peddling merchants had but limited resources and were therefore vulnerable.

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 6: Special Issue on Ottoman Trade , fall 1991 , pp. 123 - 149
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 1991

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