OTTOMAN CONNECTION TO MELUNGEON

•Ottoman Sultans took interest in the Voyages          of Discovery and followed European     developments.

•Ottoman trading and military activity focused   mostly on Northern Africa, the Mediterranean,       and the Middle East. Like any other European,           it was possible to pay for passage to America.

•Records of North Carolina Land Patents and Grants show that as early as 1635 some Turks were brought to the colonies as workers and laborers. Thus, the trade that developed between the Americas and Europe, Europe and North Africa, and North Africa and the Middle East provided a link that on an individual scale permitted an intermingling of peoples.