Download or read book Ottoman and Dutch Merchants in the Eighteenth Century written by Ismail Hakkı Kadı and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-05-25 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyses the dynamics between the non-Muslim merchant elites of Ankara and Izmir (mostly Greeks and Armenians) and their European competitors in the eighteenth century. In particular, it investigates two major developments: the Dutch attempts to penetrate the mohair trade in Ankara and the local resistance they faced, and the Ottoman non-Muslim merchant’s infiltration of the Dutch Levant trade and the Dutch reaction to this form of Ottoman 'expansion'.