The story of Osman of Timisoara continues, and on this episode we follow him out of his initial adventures in captivity and into the years that came after, years of "toil and misery," he would say, along with hunger and sickness, but also of surprising moments of friendship and intimacy.

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Sources:

• • Osman Aga of Timisoara. Prisoner of the Infidels. Edited, translated, and introduced by Giancarlo Casale. University of California Press, 2021.

  • Büsching, Anton Friedrich. A New System of Geography, Volume 4. A. Millar, 1762.

  • Finkel, Caroline. Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire. Basic Books, 2005.

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