PRILOG PITANJU OSNIVANJA SAMOSTALNOG BANJALUČKOG KADILUKA U 16. STOLJEĆU
CONTRIBUTION TO THE QUESTION OF THE FOUNDATION OF AN INDEPENDENT BANJA LUKA KADILIK IN THE 16th CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to determine the time of emergence of an independent Banja Luka kadilik in the 16th century, i.e. the division of the preceding Kobaš kadilik. So far in historiography the question has been not been addressed adequately. The article presents arguments supporting the view that, starting from the second half of the 16th century, the number of Muslims was increasing on the territory which had previously belonged to Kobaš kadilik so that it became necessary to establish a new kadilik. Given that during the same period Banja Luka also became the seat of official residence of the Bosnian sancak beg and subsequently, beglerbeg, it is quite possible that the town also became the seat of judicial administration of the new Banja Luka kadilik. The opinion exists that it was only the seat and the name of the kadilik that were changed for what was basically the territory of the Kobaš kadilik. However, Ottoman sources from the second half of the 16th century refer simultaneously to Banja Luka and Kobaš kadi which testifies to the existence of two kadiliks in the area. A tangible confirmation for the existence of the independent kadilik is found in a document from the May of 1577 which specifically mentions the kadi of Banja Luka. The establishment of the new kadilik can also be linked to the expansion of the Bosnian sancak's territory following Ferhadbeg Sokolović's military conquests in the Una River area during 1576-77. Therefore, it is an unfounded a claim to say that ''due to a weak process of Islamization“ and the low number of Muslims, this wide area belonged only to one kadilik in the 16th century up until the conquest of Bihać.

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