„Anatolia Transplanted?”: New Register Data about the Kaza of Osman Pazar

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Pages: 90-102

Abstract:

The dynamically changing ethno-religious and demographic view of the region, which today we identify as Omurtag region, in the 15th and especially during the 16th–17th cc., is typical of the manner in which the Muslim enclaves in the Balkans were formed after the Ottoman occupation. The obvious interest towards these matters still have not reach the solving of the many disputable questions. There is still no answer to the question how all that happened over this region can prove the so called „Anatolia Transplanted” and the models of the demographic, religious and ethnical changes in the region Tozluk, that were given by M. Kiel. On the base of he statistic data from 9 tax inventories, the earliest of which dates from the 80-s of the 15th c. and the latest one is from the beginning of the 18th c., the author makes attempt to clarify some of the disputable questions. The comparative analysis of the vast and compact information that is taken from the register sources clearly points out the ways of the settlement development and the ethno-demographic changes. The denseness of the village network, the number of the tax-payers, as well as analyses of the toponymic data, given evidence that the processes of the Turk colonization, the migration of the local population are most intensive from the middle of the 15th c. till the first half of the next 16th c.

Keywords:

Ottoman Archives, detailed inventories of fiscal possessions, registers of sultan orders, Ottoman Empire, Kaza of Osman Pazar, Turk colonization, process of islamisation, Moslems, non-Moslems

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