--- joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> Thirty years ago....it's a mixed bag.
>
> Remember that Romania was not directly run by the
> Ottomans; it was run
> by Romanians on behalf of the Ottomans. So there was
> no actual
> occupation. Just a lot of tribute paying.
>
> There was a lot of cultural interpenetration:
> musical, folkloric. A lot
> of fairy tales have Turkish figures in them. Often
> the Turks are
> portrayed as oppressors, but sometimes they are more
> neutral figures.
>
> They are not seen as people to be imitated -- say
> the way some
> Anglicized Indians saw England. For "civilizing"
> influence, Romania
> always turns to the west. Perhaps a vestige of the
> language.
>
> Joanna
Did the Ottomans view Romania as a source of slaves, as they did Ukraine (and Africa, of course)? Ottoman raids for slaves into Ukraine were going on until the late 1700s.
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