Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. After the Conquest of Constantinople: 1. Ottoman gains and the Catholic response 2. The Ottoman attack upon Catholics in the Balkans and Greece 3. The Catholics of Armenia and Syria come under Ottoman rule 4. The Ottoman advance into Palestine and Egypt Part II. The Golden Age of the Missions: 5. The growth of French influence in Istanbul 6. The missions come under the congregation for the propagation of the faith 7. The Balkans and Greece 8. The Orient and the Latin missions 9. Palestine, Egypt and North Africa Part III. The Eighteenth Century: 10. The eighteenth century in Istanbul 11. The Balkans after the peace of Karlowitz 12. The Catholic Armenians 13. The near Eastern churches 14. Palestine and Egypt Part IV. From Expansion to Disaster: 15. The Catholics of Istanbul from the nineteenth century to the proclamation of the Turkish republic 16. The Vatican council, the Eastern churches and the papacy 17. The Balkan churches 18. The Armenian Catholic community 19. The Maronites after the reign of Mahmut II 20. The Catholic Melkites 21. Syrian Catholics and the Chaldean church 22. The Catholics of the Holy Land and Egypt Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
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