In the summer of 1474, Ḫoja Mahmud Gawan, the dynamic vizier of the Bahmani king of north Deccan (India), Shah Mohammed III Lashkari, was busy with an important transportation issue; he needed to send 2,000 pieces of fine Indian fabric to Bursa (in present day Turkey) and Bosnia in the ‘country of Rome’ (Ottoman empire).
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An Indian Merchant's Death in Bursa
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In the summer of 1474, Ḫoja Mahmud Gawan, the dynamic vizier of the Bahmani king of north Deccan (India), Shah Mohammed III Lashkari, was busy with an important transportation issue; he needed to send 2,000 pieces of fine Indian fabric to Bursa (in present day Turkey) and Bosnia in the ‘country of Rome’ (Ottoman empire).