Akçe - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Akçe - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Pamuk, Şevket

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1059933
Doc. NO	:	ALei330
Main Entry	:	Pamuk, Şevket
Title & Author	:	Akçe - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Pamuk, Şevket
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(663 words)
Abstract	:	Akçe (aqče, akche) , or “asper” in Western sources, both words having the connotation of “white,” is the small silver coin issued in the Balkans and Anatolia and the basic monetary unit of account in the Ottoman Empire until the end of the eleventh/seventeenth century. The best available numismatic evidence indicates that Orhan Bey, the second Ottoman ruler, issued the first akçe in 727/1326–7 in the northwest corner of Anatolia, just as Mongol hegemony in the region collapsed. The Ottomans borrowed from the Īlkhānids both the design of
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei330.pdf