books.google.co.uk - Of the various monopolies exercised by the Ottoman ruling stratum in their long domination over South-eastern Europe, the most lasting in its effects was their monopoly over information. The scanty knowledge that outsiders had of this area improved only in the nineteenth century as, one after another,...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Economic_Life_in_Ottoman_Europe.html?id=-xh5P2NC2FIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareEconomic Life in Ottoman Europe
