Summary: Normal.dotm 0 0 1 148 849 Georgetown University 7 1 1042 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} In the first half of the 19th century, the activities of country-less Polish revolutionaries and exiles, and the bureaucrats and reformers of the shrinking Ottoman Empire were joined through in a mutual concern regarding the expansion of Russia and the machinations of the Western Powers. This intersection of interests provided ample opportunity for the dynamic participation of a large Polish Émigré community in Ottoman affairs. After the tremendous efforts of both parties during the Crimean War, which had little positive outcome for either the Ottoman Empire or the thousands of Poles that fought in allied armies, we know little about what became of Polonia Ottomanica – or the Polish community in the Ottoman Empire. Join Paulina Dominik, a graduate of Oxford University and a fellow at the German Orient Institute in Istanbul, to discuss this lacuna, which persists within both Polish and Ottoman historiographies, and, in a broader sense the History of Turkish/European relations. Michael Połczyński is a Doctoral candidate studying early modern Ottoman and European history at Georgetown University (see academia.edu) Paulina Dominik is a graduate of Oxford University and a fellow at the German Orient-Institut in Istanbul (see academia.edu)
