Социјалне диференцијације у Требињској области у првим годинама турске владавине
Social Differentiations in the Region of Trebinje in the First Years of Turkish Rule

Summary/Abstract: The paper establishes the fact that there were 17 tîmârs in the region of Trebinje in 1468/69. Fifteen of them were in the hands of Christians, while of the other two tîmârs one was owned by a Muslim sipahi (obviously a man of Turkish origin) and the other had the status of mevkuf, i.e. of tîmâr whose rents belonged to the fiscus. If the list of “old sipahis” (kadimî sipahiler) from the detailed census of Herzegovina from 1475/77 is compared with the data on tîmâr-owning sipahis in Trebinje from the summary Bosnian census from 1468/69, it can be noted that most owners of aforementioned 15 tîmâr (nine of them or 60%) can be found in both censuses. The second group among the owners of these 15 tîmâr consisted of six (or 40%) sipahis mentioned in the summary census from 1468/69, who are not found on the list of 49 degraded tîmâr-holders from 1475/77. The same list does not seem to include persons who could be the sons or fathers of the sipahis mentioned in 1468/69. Like the nobility, the peasants also continued to live in their old households after the establishment of the Turkish rule. Thanks to the individual person from the Bosnian summary census from 1468/69 and detailed census of Herzegovina from 1475/77, we are able to make tables of the village households and bachelors, and also the amount of total annual taxes (measured in akçe) paid by each village separately and types of military obligations of the people.

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