Rossitsa Gradeva
My research interests focus on but are not limited to Ottoman and Balkan history: non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman provincial administrative, legal and military institutions, the Danube frontier, everyday provincial life, Osman Pazvantoglu, the Ottoman Commissariat and many others
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Our study is based on a variety of sources: Ottoman, British, and American diplomatic documentation, a wide range of newspapers, memoirs, and fic-tion.
Our study is based on a variety of sources: Ottoman, British, and American diplomatic documentation, a wide range of newspapers, memoirs, and fic-tion.
османското владичество продължава да привлича интереса
на значителен брой учени. За сметка на това
противоположното движение, от ислям към християнство
рядко е било обект на изследване. В настоящото
изследване предлагам поглед към този важен акт на
промяна на идентичността през призмата на "профанното" -
на любовната история и приставането на младо турско
момиче при българския ѝ любим, Русе 1910 г.
Тази звучаща днес нормално история, завършила с промяна
на религията на момичето и сватба, обаче, протича
драматично и води до противопоставяне на православни и
мюсюлмани в града, сблъсък между русенското
православно гражданство и властите, завършил със
смъртта на над 20 души, множество ранени и сериозна
криза в управлението на града и дори на държавно ниво.
Случаят е разгледан на няколко нива: самата история,
взаимоотношения между религиозните общности в града,
вътрешнополитическо и международно (на фона на
предстоящата визита на Фердинанд в Истанбул след
едностранното обявяване на независимост от България,
1908 г. Случаят е коментиран на фона на други подобни
случаи на конверсия по любов в България 1879-1910 г.
Докладът/статията се базира на документи от архивите на
ЦДА (Османското Комисарство), ВОА, отражение във
вестникарски публикации.
Stepping on existing literature on the mahalle and varoş in early modern Ottoman towns and about Sofia in particular this paper will explore and trace the interaction of the three religious communities within the town on the level of mahalle during a period of around two centuries, from late 16th until the end of 18th century. The aim is not just to establish the inner dynamic of Sofian population and the factors that influenced the inner structure of the town on mahalle level, including warfare and violence as well as conscious policies. Finally, the paper will contribute to the debate on the nature of the mahalle as a residential and tax unit.
The paper is based on analysis of the documents contained in extant kadi sicills, in the first place transactions of houses, plots and workshops that reveal the actual population of a given neighbourhood as well as tax registers for the local expenses. It steps also on tapu tahrir registers from the 16th century as well as single documents, church and municipal codices (from end of 18th and early 19th centuries), relevant documents in the mühimme, şikâyet and ahkam defters from the period in question.
The paper will focus on the instances related to issues of ‘order’ rather than ‘ordinary’/incidental criminality, that is, with cases and people who were identified by the authorities as dangerous bandits, especially ones who undermined the order and state authority. We shall explore their motives and goals, religious and social identity/ profile; differences in the activities, intensity and response by the authorities that can be detected in times of war (the war with the Holy League, 1683-1699 in particular) and peace; procedure and interaction between the local, provincial and state institutions in the enforcement of law. Special attention will be paid to the terminology used by the authorities to designate the bandits (harami, haydud, şaki, ehl-i fesad, and others). For the period under study these were primarily rank-and-file Muslims and Christians while only towards its end would we see more prominent local notables or state officers become the major problem for the authorities. Hence, we shall try to detect possible changes in the type of banditry caused by the emergence of ‘elite’ breaking of law in late 17th- and early 18th-century Sofia.
The paper is based on Sofia sicills kept, Oriental department, National Library-Sofia, and mühimme defters, BOA-Istanbul.