Topoi of Urban Space in Ottoman Documents from the 16th–17th C. On the Case Studies of Tarnovo, Nikopol and Vratsa

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Pages: 39-62
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/EZBS4699

Abstract:

The article makes an attempt, on the examples mostly of the towns of Tarnovo, Vratsa and Nikopol, to present the major changes in urban space in the Balkans during the so-called Ottoman period, reflected directly or indirectly in the Ottoman documentation. A complete opportunity for such a comparative representation of those three towns, which were important centers in medieval Bulgaria, provide partially published Ottoman tax inventories from the 16th – the beginning of the 17th cc. The manner of registering the population in the Ottoman tax inventories provides an opportunity to follow not only the changes in the ethnic and religious structure of the population, but also to research the spatial reconfiguration of the general urban space and architecture. A careful “reading” of this fiscal in its essence documentation, outlines clearly, though not quite in detail, the main topoi of urban space.

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Ottoman period, Ottoman tax inventories, urban space, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Catholics

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