LIVNO U RANIM TURSKIM IZVORIMA
LIVNO IN EARLY TURKISH SOURCES

Summary/Abstract: This article describes the development of the city of Livno from the end of the fifteenth century to the beginning of the seventeenth century. An analysis of the origin and development of the city has been done on the basis of seven Turkish census defters comprising the time period between 1485 and 1604. Livno was first mentioned in Turkish sources in 1485 as a small town with 37 households and 26 inhabitants without permanent living quarters (haymane). The population had the status of stock-breeding Wallachians, owing to the fact that their economy was predominantly the breeding of stock, and also because the Livno region was situated on the frontier itself. In the year 1489 Livno had, according to the defter data, 24 houses and 6 inhabitants without permanent living quarters, and the status of the population remained unchanged in relation to the condition from 1485.

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