The Ottoman Empire’s Military and Store of Grain Aid to Venetian Regarding to Bailo Registers in Venice State Archive (1624-1631)

Although the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and Venice State lenghtened till the 14th century more developed extensive relations occured within the period of Fatih. The relations between the two countries based on both political and economic principles. On the one hand, while the Ottoman Empire had been trying to establish the most powerful state in the menchant marine in the West, at the same time she desired to ensure the entry of goods which was needed regulary; on the other hand Venice State did not want to loose the right of trade in the East which was taken in the period of Byzantine and Seljuq and also she did not want to loose these privileges to rival sailor states. Although these mutual good relations between the Ottomans and Venice have been interrupted due to the conquest of Cyprus by the Ottoman State in 1571, 16th century, the mutual relations between the states started again because of the above-mentioned obligation of the two states. After this, Venice had the Ottoman State rose the worthy statues of the most loyal and the most patronage state among the Christian countries. While the Thirty Years’ War was continuing in Europe, Venice, between 1624-1631, came across the threat of Spanish-Austrian alliance and so he appealed for help from the Ottoman State. Although the Ottoman State left the principle of “the foundation of the Ottoman economic policy board-provizyonizm in supplly is tightly linked to the principle of prohibition of exports of garain”, the Ottoman State gave permission for the sale of grains to Venice by way of imperial order to the Begs of state and districts in Rumeli. Venice might take the grains as much as she needed in the value of daily price. Venice claimed soldiers from the Ottoman State due to the fact that the continuation of attacks to Venice by Spain and Austria continued. With the assessment above-mentioned, the Ottoman State gave the right of becoming warrier in the Venice to the volunteer Muslim and the voluntieer non-Muslim people who waned to enter in the district an in the state of Rumeli. The Ottoman State has given written authorization requered warned that no one was concerned about this order. The decision of giving permission to grain export out of the country as well as mercenaries written is completley contrary to the known policies of the politics and economics of the Ottoman State. However, thiss case can be explained by the Ottoman State’s foresighted policy. In our view, this policy of the Ottoman State is called as the doctrine of the cross-border arbitration which means the destruction of the limits of the threat.