Az Oszmán Birodalom sztyeppei határai és a moldvai kijáró (Fordította: Papp Sándor)

The advance of the Ottoman Turks towards the northern steppes, to a great extent, was affected by the need to secure control of the Crimean Khanate, then shortly afterwards, by their occupation of Cilila (Kili, Kilia) and Cetatea Alba (Akkerman, Belograd) at the meeting point of the Danube and the Black Sea. Having acquired this territory as a result of conquest in the sixteenth century and having organized administrative units there, the Ottoman Turks believed to be in control of the steppe borderland both politically and commercially. The new administrative unit (sancak) included certain areas of the Voivodship of Moldova, being in Ottoman vassalage, but it also had relations with the Black Sea coastal region extending to the Crimean Peninsula. By and by, it brought under control both the increasingly significant Voivodship of Moldova, as well as the Crimea. At the same time, it served as the basis of the major thrusts of the advance toward the Ukrainian steppe. Having developed by the sixteenth century, this borderland, especially by the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, became a very important area, especially against powerful Russia trampling from the north. The study, based on Ottoman Turkish sources, examines the development of the administrative system of the area.