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Although initially apprehensive in their dealings with the Ottomans, the ever-pragmatic Ragusan traders were rather quick to establish diplomatic and commercial relations with Ottoman officials in their vicinity. There is a paradoxical difference in the overwhelmingly unfavorable portrayal of Ottoman Turks that can be encountered in the surviving Ragusan correspondence with their Christian partners in comparison to how they were presented and treated in the existing written exchanges that the Ragusans had with the Ottomans themselves. To do so, the work will first provide a cursory overview of the initial contacts between the . . .
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