THE IMAGE OF THE OTTOMANS IN HUNGARIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY

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" THE IMAGE OF THE OTTOMANS IN HUNGARIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY "
Gábor Ágoston

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	811645
Doc. No	:	LA99319
Main Entry	:	Gábor Ágoston
Title & Author	:	THE IMAGE OF THE OTTOMANS IN HUNGARIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY [Article]\ Gábor Ágoston
Title of Periodical	:	Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
Date	:	2008
Volume/ Issue Number	:	61-1/2
Page No	:	15--26
Abstract	:	This short essay overviews the changing image of the Ottomans in Hungarian historiography from the late 19th century to the 1990s. It maintains that whereas the Ottoman Empire had received a generally negative treatment from the nationalist historiographies of the empire's successor states in the Balkans and the Middle East, Hungarian historiography has been more divided and has offered a more diverse view with regard to the country's Ottoman centuries. As in the case of the biased treatment of the new nation-states of the Balkans and the Middle East, the more balanced Hungarian attitude has its political and cultural-historiographical background, which is briefly addressed in the paper.