Naseljavanje muslimanskih prognanika (muhadžira) iz Kneževine Srbije u zvornički kajmakamluk 1863. godine
The Coming of the Muslim Exiles from the Principality of Serbia to the Zvornik Kajmakamluk in 1863

Summary/Abstract: The Zvornik kajmakamluk (district area) became a shelter for the Muslim exiles from Serbia in 1862 and 1863. There were seven to eight thousand people that were according the decision of the Porta settled in the Bosnian eyelet (province). The majority of them came to the places, that had been constructed for them at Kozluk, Brezovo Polje, Donja Azizija (Orasje), Gornja Azizija (Bosanski Samac) and Orahovica. The Ottoman government had evidently the aim by this program, to bring the new population, primarily to populate Posavina, the Zvornik kajmakamluk, but to increase the rate of the Muslim population in the border areas to Austria and Serbia. The Muslim immigrants were opposed to the program. They demanded a fair compensation for their property in Serbia, to be enabled according their own wishes to settle down in Bosnia freely, mostly in the towns, because they had lived in the towns in Serbia, were involved in crafts and trade. Vally Serif Osman-pasa was merciless, they were not given any compensation for their property in Serbia, but to live in the places he intended for them. At the time of the immigrants' arrival and settling down in the Zvornik kajmakamluk, Austria had a consular agency in Tuzla. The consular agent, major Nikola Omcikus, reported to his government regularly on the building up of the new settlements and populating them. In addition, in 1864, he submitted a long report on the Zvornik kajmakamluk. He presented the data on the economic possibilities, mines, settlements and the number of inhabitants, the export-import of goods as well. All the data were completely published, being very important for the researches of the kajmakamluk past, as a whole and each of the settlements.

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