Tatjana Katic

• PhD Ottoman history
• Research Associate at Historical Institute in Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

This paper seeks to identify the territory of the Mrković (Mrkojević) tribe in the hinterland of Bar and Ulcinj, their settlements and ethnic composition based on the only two preserved 16th-century Ottoman detailed cadastral surveys of the Iskenderiye (Skadar/Shkodra) sancak from 1570 and 1582. / У раду се на основу једина два сачувана османска оп...

Средњовековна жупа Тополница, позната и као Анђелова Тополница, уобичајено се идентификује с облашћу новобрдске Криве Реке. Ретки помени тополничких села у средњем веку не омогућавају реконструкцију њеног простора, као ни до сада објављени османски извори, конкретно попис области Бранковића из 1455. године, који бележи свега 54 тополничка насеља....

In 1808, two dioceses, Raška and Prizren, were united in the Diocese of Raška-Prizren and Skenderija. The reason for this was found to be the usual absence of the elected Prizren Metropolitans from their diocese, during which the administration of the Prizen eparchy was entrusted to the Raška Metropolitan Joanikije. Before being appointed to the me...

The paper focuses on smelteries as a factor influencing settlement in a region of the medieval mine of Novo Brdo in the sancak of Vučitrn (Vılçitrn). It aims to determine the number of smelters’ villages and to analyse their dynamics, especially in the context of the rise and fall of mining production. Based on an analysis of the 15th and 16th-cent...

The Balkans has been a region of prosperous animal husbandry since the earliest times due to its geographical features, the abundance of water, winter lowland meadows and summer upland pastures. In medieval Serbia transhumant pastoralism was regulated by customary law and codified later by the Tsar Dušan’s Code. Taxation on breeding sheep and goats...

The origins of Mahmud Pasha Angelović (Angeli), one of the most prominent Ottoman grand viziers, have been debated for decades and are yet to be fully established. While there is certainty about his father being a Greek belonging to the distinguished Byzantine families of the Angeloi and Philanthropenoi, there is ambiguity about his mother’s origin...

Memoirs of a Janissary or Turkish Chronicle penned by the Serbian soldier Konstantin Mihailović is a well-known fifteenth-century historical source that has raised many questions and debates. One of them concerns the author’s origin, social background and level of education. This paper will show that he was born in the village of Ostrovica, whose a...

The paper aims to determine the area of the Ras district at the time of the Nemanjićs, local magnate Vuk Branković and the Ottoman Turks. The medieval settlements of the Ras district, mainly those belonging to the Banjska monastery or in their vicinity, are already known to historiography. This paper, however, offers some new solutions for ubicatio...

The summary defter that we publish here concerns the areas of the sancaks of Alacahisar (Kruševac), Vučitrn and Prizren, and the vilayets of Zvečan, Jeleč, Ras, Senice and Hodidede, which were under the direct control of the commander of the Skopje-Bosnia frontier İshakoğlu İsa Bey. It was completed in the first ten days of March 1455 and, as such,...

The Islamisation of the population of two neighbouring regions south of Prizren, Gora and Opolje, occurred in varying degrees during the centuries-long rule of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans. In Gora, inhabited by the Slavic population, it was extremely slow, while in Opolje, inhabited by the Albanians, it was incomparably more intensive. This p...

OTTOMANISATION OF A MEDIEVAL TOWN: URBAN AND DEMOGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENT OF PRIZREN FROM THE SECOND HALF OF THE 15TH UNTIL THE END OF THE 16TH CENTURY

Abdullah bin Ibrahim nicknamed Üsküdarî was a participant in the military campaign of grand vizier Mustafa Pasha Köprülü against Serbia in 1690. In his diary, he described one of the largest destructions in the long history of the Belgrade fortress. In October 1690 during the Ottoman bombardment of Belgrade, which was then in hands of the Habsburg...

In addition to indicating the most important methodological problems related to onomastic research of the Ottoman-Turkish defters (cadastral surveys), this paper researches the characteristics of proper nouns (personal names) in Gornje and Srednje Ponišavlje in the 16th century, based on the material of the defter of the Sofia Sanjak (1571). The sp...

This paper discusses development of settlements and population dynamics of the Gokčanica region in the first centuries of Ottoman administration. By analyzing several unpublished Ottoman land registers and financial books, the authors are showing that this mining region was organized as a separate administrative unit during the reign of the Ottoman...

Gift-giving and gift-receiving, as an expressions of suzerainty, patronage and favor on one hand and gratitude and loyalty on the other hand, were deeply rooted in Ottoman society. This practice had extraordinary significance in the relation ruler - army, especially in wartime. At the end of the 16th century, during the Long War 1593-1606, a shipme...