Ottoman Niš
Territorialisation and Urban Space in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Balkans
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Beschreibung
The city of Niš, now in Serbia, was part of the Ottoman Empire for about half a millennium. This study offers the first in-depth examination of the city's history during the last phase of Ottoman rule, from 1700 to 1878. It traces the development of a city that was located on one of the main routes across the Balkans and an important military stronghold near the new border with the Habsburg Monarchy. The study places a strong emphasis on the development of urban space, which it understands as consisting of multiple overlapping territories. Urban life was characterised by different religious and ethnic communities, which were governed by the Ottoman authorities with the help of local elites. Overall, Niš emerges as a typical Ottoman city, whose development was embedded in wider political, economic and social trends of the Ottoman Balkans.
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Autor*in
Florian Riedler
is a Research Fellow at the Chair of Eastern and Southeastern European History at the University of Leipzig
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osmanische Geschichte südosteuropäische Geschichte Stadtentwicklung Territorialisierung Neuere Geschichte Schriften zur Balkanforschung Florian Riedler