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Известия на ЦСИИ / Proceedings of CEHR, Vol. VII, 2022

Although it is a village, according to the way it is designated in the Ottoman register material ... more Although it is a village, according to the way it is designated in the Ottoman register material from the 16 th and 17 th centuries as 'qarye', Etropole has established itself as a significant mining (madanci), craft and literary center during this period. A circumstance that undoubtly is of a particular importance and has impacted on its significance as a mining, derbentci and literary center, is its designation as a passage zone of centuries-old importance. The location and natural conditions of the region, favorable and encouraging for trade contacts and the development of a number of crafts, are also important. An opportunity to trace the development of Etropole as a Derbentci and later mining center, as well as its overall economic characteristics and socioeconomic profile of its inhabitants from the second half of the 15 th to the first half of the 17 th century, gives the voluminous and still unpublished compact information contained in several mufassal (detailed, nominal) defters from 1516-1517, 15141-1545, 1613-1614 and 1642-1646, selected for the purposes of the study. The annotated register data reveal a rather heterogeneous socioeconomic profile of the residents of Etropole. It is difficult to determine which status of the settlementderbentci or mining (madenci)during the Ottoman period proved to be the leading one for its economic and cultural development. But it is indisputable that the economic rise of Etropole in the 16 th and 17 th centuries coincided with the activation of the literary and spiritual life, attested in the available sources published by the great Bulgarian medievalist Petar Mutafchiev, as well as in a number of attributions and author's notes of writers, priests and wealthy residents of Etropole. The comparative analysis of the newly translated and summarized register data convincingly highlights the close connection between the heyday of mining, the Ottoman fiscal and legal privileges granted to the residents of Etropole and the overall literary and educational

ACTA MEDIAEVALIA Magnae Tarnoviae. Tomus I. Владетел, държава и църква на Балканите през средновековието. Сборник в чест на 60-годишнината на проф. д-р Пламен Павлов. Част 2. Гл. ред. Н. Кънев. Велико Търново: Издателство „Фабер“, с. 594–622. ISBN: 978-619-00-1105-7., 2020

In the focus of the study are the repeatedly discussed in the historiography here and abroad powe... more In the focus of the study are the repeatedly discussed in the historiography here and abroad powers of the Orthodox Church under the Ottoman rule. Despite the considerable volume of documents compiled by the Ottoman chancellery, a number of issues remain controversial. On the basis of selected documents from the "Piskopos kalemi" fund of Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi-İstanbul-patriarchal and metropolitan pleas (arzuhals), public petitions (mahzars), various types of sultan orders (fermans, hükms, etc.), income-expenditure statements (suret, suret-i ruznamçe hakani, etc.)-is made an attempt to be tracked the specific dimensions of the guarantees and powers given more than two centuries after the initial settlement of the status of the Patriarchy under the rule of Sultan Mehmed II. The comparative analysis of the information provided by these documents gives the opportunity to understand to what extent and how exactly the direct linking of the collected by the Orthodox hierarchs (patriarchs, metropolitans, bishops) church taxes and fees with the system of Iltizam during the second half of the 17 th and 18 th cc., affects the perimeter of these powers in religious, legal and political terms.

„Стари“/„нови“ селища и административни центрове в османското провинциално управление: Ала кинисе/Осман пазар и Хоталич/Серви (Селви) (по османски документи от XV–XVІІ век). – Епохи, Т. 29, кн. 1, с. 67–79, 2021

The study raises questions about the fate of the medieval Bulgarian fortresses and urban centers ... more The study raises questions about the fate of the medieval Bulgarian fortresses and urban centers in the system of Ottoman provincial administration, which has repeatedly been discussed in Balkan and Ottoman studies. These debates are constantly related to the issues of continuity in the administration and ruling of the Bulgarian lands, evidenced in the territorial overlap of the medieval administrative structures with the new Ottoman ones, as well as in the names of the sanjaks, nahiyes and vilayets. One of the problems that is yet to be completely solved has to do with the medieval fortresses and settlements, registered with their pre-Ottoman names as important administrative centers in the system of Ottoman provincial administration (nahiyes, vilayets, kazas), but most likely destroyed during the conquest or earlier. New settlements are developing near them which have different names but the same administrative functions. Many of them are problematic to be localized, but for centuries, these "old" settlements and centers of power have been referred to in parallel with the "new" settlements as another name (nam-i diğer) for the respective administrative centers. The present study focuses on two of the examples of continuity and parallel designation of the "old"/"new" settlementsnahiye Ala Kinise (Kilisa)/ Osman Pazar and nahiye Hotaliç/ Servi (Selvi). These administrative-territorial units are typical of the Ottoman model of administration at local level, as well as regarding the presence of a particular continuity from the medieval Bulgarian state. The complex approach applied in the research and interpretation of the Ottoman register material allows us not only to trace the indications of continuity in the development of individual settlements, but also to understand the pre-Ottoman period of their existence within the medieval Bulgarian state. In a broader sense, it provides a real opportunity for a well-grounded reconstruction of the Ottoman model of power, demographic and economic control of the Bulgarian lands at local level.

On the basis of unpublished and partly published Ottoman register material from 16th and 17th cen... more On the basis of unpublished and partly published Ottoman register material from 16th and 17th century the focus of this study is concentrated on the economic development of Troyan and Troyan region during the first centuries under Ottoman rule. The monetary and natural components of the land rent, introduced by various in type and amount taxes in the detailed (mufassal) registers, reveal the whole range of crops and specific livelihoods of the population in settlements of the region. The comparative analysis of this compact information outlines several essential characteristics in their economic development. First of all – the indications of continuity from the time of the medieval Bulgarian state. On the second - the changes that occurred under the influence of the “new” Muslim inhabitants, including in the field of crafts. Third – the influence of local traditions on the economic activity of the Muslim population. The discussed Ottoman documents reveal a quite different economic characteristic of the region from the one imposed in the historiography, and especially in the local history studies, which hardly suggests the development of Troyan as one of the most important centers of craft production during the Revival and Post-liberation period.

Епохи, Jun 30, 2021

The study raises questions about the fate of the medieval Bulgarian fortresses and urban centers ... more The study raises questions about the fate of the medieval Bulgarian fortresses and urban centers in the system of Ottoman provincial administration, which has repeatedly been discussed in Balkan and Ottoman studies. These debates are constantly related to the issues of continuity in the administration and ruling of the Bulgarian lands, evidenced in the territorial overlap of the medieval administrative structures with the new Ottoman ones, as well as in the names of the sanjaks, nahiyes and vilayets. One of the problems that is yet to be completely solved has to do with the medieval fortresses and settlements, registered with their pre-Ottoman names as important administrative centers in the system of Ottoman provincial administration (nahiyes, vilayets, kazas), but most likely destroyed during the conquest or earlier. New settlements are developing near them which have different names but the same administrative functions. Many of them are problematic to be localized, but for centuries, these “old” settlements and centers of power have been referred to in parallel with the “new” settlements as another name (nam-i diğer) for the respective administrative centers. The present study focuses on two of the examples of continuity and parallel designation of the “old”/“new” settlements – nahiye Ala Kinise (Kilisa)/ Osman Pazar and nahiye Hotaliç/ Servi (Selvi). These administrative-territorial units are typical of the Ottoman model of administration at local level, as well as regarding the presence of a particular continuity from the medieval Bulgarian state. The complex approach applied in the research and interpretation of the Ottoman register material allows us not only to trace the indications of continuity in the development of individual settlements, but also to understand the pre-Ottoman period of their existence within the medieval Bulgarian state. In a broader sense, it provides a real opportunity for a well-grounded reconstruction of the Ottoman model of power, demographic and economic control of the Bulgarian lands at local level.

Proceedings of the Centre for Economic History Research, 2018

Proceedings of the Centre for Economic History Research, 2019

Epohi, 2021

Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 2001

... contains the expression Salahiyye-i Halvetiyye, meaning one of the branches of the Halveti or... more ... contains the expression Salahiyye-i Halvetiyye, meaning one of the branches of the Halveti order whose founder was Balõ kesirli Abdullah Salahaddin.38 This ... At the beginning of the vita, where he reports on the death of the Shaykh, he mentions that 'kadi Abdurrahman, son of ...

The article makes an attempt, on the examples mostly of the towns of Tarnovo, Vratsa and Nikopol,... more 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 16 th-the beginning of the 17 th 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.

Топоси на градското пространство в османската документация от ХVІ–ХVІІ век (на примера на Търново, Никопол и Враца). – В: Балканите – език, история, култура. , 2015

The article makes an attempt, on the examples mostly of the towns of Tarnovo, Vratsa and Nikopol,... more 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.

Известия на ЦСИИ / Proceedings of CEHR, Vol. VII, 2022

Епохи, Jun 30, 2021

The study raises questions about the fate of the medieval Bulgarian fortresses and urban centers ... more The study raises questions about the fate of the medieval Bulgarian fortresses and urban centers in the system of Ottoman provincial administration, which has repeatedly been discussed in Balkan and Ottoman studies. These debates are constantly related to the issues of continuity in the administration and ruling of the Bulgarian lands, evidenced in the territorial overlap of the medieval administrative structures with the new Ottoman ones, as well as in the names of the sanjaks, nahiyes and vilayets. One of the problems that is yet to be completely solved has to do with the medieval fortresses and settlements, registered with their pre-Ottoman names as important administrative centers in the system of Ottoman provincial administration (nahiyes, vilayets, kazas), but most likely destroyed during the conquest or earlier. New settlements are developing near them which have different names but the same administrative functions. Many of them are problematic to be localized, but for centuries, these “old” settlements and centers of power have been referred to in parallel with the “new” settlements as another name (nam-i diğer) for the respective administrative centers. The present study focuses on two of the examples of continuity and parallel designation of the “old”/“new” settlements – nahiye Ala Kinise (Kilisa)/ Osman Pazar and nahiye Hotaliç/ Servi (Selvi). These administrative-territorial units are typical of the Ottoman model of administration at local level, as well as regarding the presence of a particular continuity from the medieval Bulgarian state. The complex approach applied in the research and interpretation of the Ottoman register material allows us not only to trace the indications of continuity in the development of individual settlements, but also to understand the pre-Ottoman period of their existence within the medieval Bulgarian state. In a broader sense, it provides a real opportunity for a well-grounded reconstruction of the Ottoman model of power, demographic and economic control of the Bulgarian lands at local level.

Proceedings of the Centre for Economic History Research, 2018

Proceedings of the Centre for Economic History Research, 2019

Epohi, 2021

Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 2001

The article makes an attempt, on the examples mostly of the towns of Tarnovo, Vratsa and Nikopol,... more 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.