Gábor Kármán, Ph.D. (2009), Eötvös Loránd University, is a research fellow of the Research Center for the Humanities (until recently of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Institute of History. He published widely on the history of Transylvania in various contexts.

• AcknowledgmentsList of MapsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionGábor Kármán1 Watching over Neighboring Provinces in the Ottoman Empire: The Case of Tributary Princes from the North of the Danube in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesViorel Panaite2 The Role of Moldavia and Wallachia in Transylvania’s Contacts to the Sublime PorteKlára Jakó3 News in Wallachia and Moldavia during the Ottoman Hegemony: Fifteenth and Sixteenth CenturiesOvidiu Cristea4 Calling for Justice and Protection: Sixteenth-Century Wallachian and Moldavian Tributaries as Petitioners to the Imperial StirrupRadu G. Păun5 Daghestan during the Long Ottoman-Safavid War (1578–1639): The Shamkhals’ Relations with Ottoman PashasDariusz Kołodziejczyk6 The Principality of Transylvania and the Ottoman Province of Eger, 1596–1660Balázs Sudár7 Trade, Diplomacy, and Corruption in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Bosnia: The Ragusan Experience of a Complex RelationshipErica Mezzoli8 The Curious Case of Caterina Cercheza: Marriage, Cross-Border Patronage, and Ottoman-Moldavian Politics in the Mid-Seventeenth CenturyMichał Wasiucionek9 Prince György Rákóczi I of Transylvania and the Elite of Ottoman Hungary, 1630–1636János B. Szabó10 Ottoman Protection of Cossack Ukraine under Hetman Petro Doroshenko: Between Legal Aspects and Actual PracticeTetiana Grygorieva11 King Thököly in Chains: The Fall of the Ottoman Tributary State of Upper HungaryGábor Kármán12 Designers or Obedient Executors of the Ottoman Northeastern Policy? The Governors of the Caffa and Trabzon Provinces at the Turn of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesNatalia Królikowska-Jedlińska13 Dealing with Ottoman Outlaws from Land and Sea: Case Studies of Dubrovnik (1746–1748)Ruža Radoš ĆurićAppendix: A Glossary of Place Names from the Eastern Half of EuropeIndex of Names