1. Cultural Relations between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg States
Background: It is not merely all about coffee, croissant and the Second Siege of Vienna. The mostly controversial rapport of the two empires that is often full of conflicts also do cover many decades of cultural exchange, fundamentally through diplomacy; thus through their envoys and ambassadors.
Fact: Metin And's research in the journal The Levant Herald (Issue 1st November 1869) proves that in the year 1868, Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I (r. 1848-1916), on his visit to the Ottoman Empire, went to Naum Theatre and watched a performance for half an hour. He was accompanied by Baron Prokesch von Osten (1795-1876), the renowned Austrian internuntius and ambassador in Konstantiniyye between the years 1856-1872.
Research Theme: Staging Turkishness: Ottomans and Turkishness on the Habsburg Theatre and Opera Stages in the eighteenth century in context of Cultural-Diplomatic Relations.
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