SULTAN JAHJA AND RADU MIHNEA. AN EPISODE FROM THE HISTORY OF THE BLACK SEA (17TH CENTURY).

The article focuses on a 17th-century Black Sea episode involving the Ottoman pretender Sultan Jahja and his political and military connections with Moldavia and Wallachia, as reconstructed through European and Italian sources. Topics include Ottoman succession rivalries, Moldo-Wallachian political networks, and Cossack naval activity in the Black Sea.