The Correspondence of the Beylerbeys of Buda 1617–1630

As the most important Ottoman office-holders in the European part of the empire, the beylerbeys of Buda played a crucial role in managing the northwestern direction of the sultan's foreign affairs. Beyond their usual task of communicating with the Habsburg court and the high dignitaries of the Kingdom of Hungary, in the 1620s they were also tasked with masterminding the delicate procedure of creating the new peace treaties between the two empires. Due to their cooperation with Gábor Bethlen, prince of Transylvania, they were even involved in some minor actions of the Thirty Years War's first phases. This volume offers a full edition of the beylerbeys' surviving correspondence from Kadizade Ali Pasha's death till Mürteza Pasha's departure from Buda, including the Ottoman Turkish and Hungarian originals, as well as those letters which are only known in Italian, Latin or German translations.