Foreign communities in Rosetta and its economic and political role during the Ottoman rule

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The Ottomans made great strides in the state’s openness policy in its relations with the European state, especially with regard to commercial activity. The Ottoman Sultans, including Sultan Selim I and Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, concluded several treaties to regulate these commercial relations. This helped the flow of foreign communities into the Egyptian gaps, including, of course, a rational loophole.

These agreements between the Ottoman Empire and the European countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were called the concessions. In fact, they were the backbone of foreign communities in the Ottoman Empire. These agreements generally stipulated that Europeans would be allowed to enter the Ottoman lands and settle in any part of their parts and trade in its cities and ports are absolutely free. The foreigners were not subject to the authority of the local rulers, as ambassadors and consuls represented their citizens before the Ottoman authorities on the one hand and they were authorized by their government.

It has settled in Rashid foreign communities, the most important of which are the Venetians, the French and the English, alongside the Jews.

The research deals with these communities and their economic and political role in the period leading up to the French campaign against Egypt.