Description
This volume includes a critical edition and annotated translation of Evliya Çelebi's descriptions of Albania and adjacent regions, extracted from his Seyāhatnāme or Book of Travels. It is a source of major importance for our knowledge of the region in the seventeenth century.
Robert Dankoff, Ph.D. (1971) Harvard University is Professor of Turkish at the University of Chicago. He has published several works on the seventeenth-century Turkish traveller Evliya Çelebi, including Evliya Çelebi in Bitlis (Brill, 1990).