In this book, stories of unknown people are gathered, stories that the grand History never noticed, never heard, never narrated. These people, men and women, young, old, and children, Christians, Muslims, Jews, Greeks and Franks, good and bad, literate and illiterate, who lived and loved and feared wherever the mighty Ottoman Empire still stood, some easily, others with difficulty, some hunted and others hunters... all of them, each in their own small way, in their own small measure, show what the times and the life of people were like then, show the rules that defined their movements and thoughts, their fears and hopes. And all together they show how the rules, small and large, changed. Like shifting sand beneath our feet, the data and situations and the interpretation of events change. Especially in this era of revolutions and great changes. Of cosmic changes. Where even fundamental concepts for human existence, for human civilization, changed meaning. Words like FREEDOM, SLAVERY, the MAP OF THE WORLD, WORK and MARKET, TRAVEL and WAR, ENEMY and FRIEND changed meaning. Terrible words, like HOUR and MOMENT.