ACCORDING TO THE 1 NUMBER OF BOSNIA AHKAM REGISTER; ADMINISTRATIVE AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF BOSNIA (1742-1755)
I NUMARALI AHKAM DEFTERİNE GÖRE BOSNA’DA İDARİ VE SOSYAL YAPI (1742-1755)

Author : E. YASEMİN İNBAŞI ARI
Number of pages : 131-152

Abstract

Bosnia has an important place in the Balkan geography of the Ottoman Empire. A rapid Islamization after the conquest of Bosnia in 1463 and becoming a military border after the Karlofça Treaty signed in 1699 it puts Bosnia in an important place socially and strategically. This situation continued until the separation of Bosnia from Ottoman rule. In this study, the administrative and social structure of Bosnia Province between 1742-1755 was tried to be examined. For this, the number 1 Bosnian Ahkâm Registers in the Ottoman archive was used. As known Ahkâm Registers, these are the notebooks in which the decisions and orders issued by the court of the judicial system, which cannot be resolved in the kadi courts, which are the basic judicial unit of the Ottoman Empire, are heard in the Divan-ı Hümâyun, the highest authority of the judicial system. There are 9 Ahkâm Complaint Registers belonging to Bosnia, covering different date ranges from 1742 to 1865. This study was prepared on the basis of the records in the Bosnia Ahkâm Register numbered I, which includes the issues and solutions in a 13-year period covering the years 1742-1755. First of all, the records in the book in question, it includes the problems experienced by the citizens or administrators in the provinces far from the center in the Ottoman Empire in particular in Bosnia, but generally in the XVIII. century and the solutions brought to these. Bosnia, which is administered as a province, Although it is different from many states in terms of its social and strategic importance, it is possible to obtain general information about Ottoman society since the problems faced by the people living in that period were similar. The register contains information about the economic structure of the period, since the most encountered problems were land and tax issues. Furthermore, the public order events and irregularities frequently encountered in the records reflect the social and administrative situation of the period. In addition, the long wars and economic difficulties encountered by the Ottoman Empire in the XVIII. century seriously affected the Bosnian people in the border region. For this reason, it is thought that examining the social structure of Bosnia will shed light on the explanation of the developments in the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire in the next century.

Keywords

Bosnia, Ahkâm Registers, XVIII. Century, Divân-i Hümayun, Balkans

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