Татарская мусульманская супольнасць Гарадзеншчыны па матэрыялах Рэвізіі татарскіх маёнткаў 1631 года, праведзенай Янам Кердзеем
The Tatar Muslim Community in the Grodno Region according to the Documentation from the Audit of Tatar Estates of 1631 Carried out by Jan Kierdej

Author(s): Aliona Liubaya
Subject(s): Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Tatar community; Grodno Region; Tatar landownership; Uhlan Tatar unit; Islam; Muslims in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Summary/Abstract: The Audit of Tatar Estates was carried out by field scribe of the Grodno Region Jarosz Piasecki and Oshmyany scribe Jan Kierdej under a decree of King Sigismund III Vasa and in line with the Constitutions of the General Sejm of 1625 to 1631. It is an indispensable source of knowlege on the social and economic situation among the social group of the socalled Tatar “hospodars” (in the area of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania), who remained in land military service. The Tatars, who in the area of Grodno lived mainly in two villages alongside the Lasosna River, in Svyatsk, and in the villages of Demidkovo and Mikelevshchina, provided horses to the army under two banners: the Uhlan unit of the Grodno Banner and the Uyshun unit of the Troki [Trakai] Banner. The details of individual entries in the books from the Audit of Tatar Estates allow us to trace the evolution of land ownership of the Tatars, as well as to track the demographic changes in the Tatar community of the Grodno Region and the transformation of its socio-economic situation as a whole.

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