Download or read book Izmir and the Levantine World, 1550-1650 written by Daniel Goffman and published by Publications on the Near East. This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces how the backwater town of Izmir (Smyrna) on the Aegean coast of Turkey, became a major seaport of the Ottoman empire, an arena of rival western European traders, a magnet for marauding pirates, and a hotbed of radical millenarians and mystics. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or