The anonymous Catalan author and his Història de Jacob Xalabín (History of Yakub Çelebi)
Анонимният каталонски автор и неговата Història de Jacob Xalabín (История на Якоб Челеби)
Category: Ottoman Studies
Languge: Bulgarian

   The edition presents the Bulgarian translation of the Història de Jacob Xalabín — an anonymous novel written in Catalan between 1492 and 1536 that focuses on the figure of the Ottoman prince Yakub Çelebi, son of Murad I and half-brother of Bayezid I. The cronicle ends with the first detailed account of the Battle of Kosovo of 1389, which left a lasting mark on the history of the Balkans. This text, mixing historical and fictional elements, is one of the earliest depictions in Western Literature of the rising Ottoman empire.

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