МИГРАЦИИ НА НАСЕЛЕНИЕ В РАЙОНА НА САКАР ПЛАНИНА (XV–XVI В.)
POPULATION MIGRATION IN THE SAKAR MOUNTAIN REGION (15TH – 16TH CENTURY)

Summary/Abstract: Throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, the Ottoman Empire has expanded its territory on the Balkan Peninsula, by permanent military crusades. As a result of the continuous military operations, to the territory of the empire have been included new lands and peoples, leading to the emergence of new military-administrative divisions. Some of them have inherited those from the Second Bulgarian Kingdom era, and some of them have arose out in the course of the Ottoman conquest.The population migration is a different result of the Ottoman territorial expansion. As a result of the process, on the territory of the Medieval Bulgarian State and Byzantium have voluntarily or forcibly settled Muslim and non-Muslim population, leading to the changes in the ethno-religious, social and professional structure of the villages and towns on the Balkans. Among the urban and rural population of the Sakar Mountain region have settled representatives of various military formations, the Muslim cult, craftsmen, traders and persons engaged in agriculture and cattle breeding, who have migrated from different parts of the Balkans and Asia Minor and have settled in the specified area of the Bulgarian and Balkan territory.The present report shall follow the migration of the Muslim and non-Muslim population in the town of Edirne and the villages, part of the Edirne kaza during the period 15th – 16th century, on the basis of unpublished Ottoman tax registers from the tapu tahrir defterleri group, stored in the funds of the National Library "St. St. Cyril and Methodius" in Sofia and the Ottoman Archive in Istanbul.

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