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CONTESTING THE EDGES OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: RETHINKING ETHNIC AND SECTARIAN BOUNDARIES IN THE MALËSORE, 1878–1912

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2003

Isa Blumi
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War in the Balkans over the past decade and a half has inspired a plethora of scholarly, journalistic, and diplomatic publications, all of which have sought to capture the region's “chaotic” history. Unfortunately, much of this work assumes that conflict in the Balkans can be understood only along ethno-religious lines.1 This reductive line of argument has been particularly evident in the treatment of the Ottoman period in the Balkans' past, a period that extends back some 600 years.2 Consequentially, such work has distorted our understanding of Balkan societies both during and after the Ottoman Empire.

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Research Article
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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , May 2003 , pp. 237 - 256
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2003 Cambridge University Press

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