Sanjak of Vučitrn
| Sanjak of Vulçitrin | |||||||||
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| Sanjak of Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
| 1459–1864 | |||||||||
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| Capital | Vulçitrin (Vushtrri, Vučitrn) | ||||||||
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• Established | 1459 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1864 | ||||||||
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The Sanjak of Vulçitrin (Turkish: Vulçitrin sancağı, Serbian: Вучитрнски санџак/Vučitrnski sandžak), also known as the Pristina Pashaluk (Serbian: Приштински пашалук/Prištinski pašaluk), was a sanjak (second-level administrative division) of the Ottoman Empire in Rumelia (the Balkans), in present-day Kosovo. It was named after its administrative center of Vulçitrin, now known as "Vushtrri" in Albanian and "Vučitrn" in Serbian.
History
Early history
The town of Vučitrn was captured from the Serbian Despotate by the Ottomans in 1455, and it remained under control of the governor of Sanjak of Üsküp (Skopje) until the definite annexation of the Serbian Despotate in 1459.[1] The first Ottoman records include the territory of the sanjak as Vilayet-i Vlk (Vilayet of Vuk), a reference to Vuk Branković. The town and sanjak was known as Vulçitrin in Turkish.[2]
According to Ottoman defters of 1525–1561 the sanjak of Vulçitrin included the following towns: Vulçitrin, Pristina, Janjevo, Novo Brdo, Belasica, Belo Brdo, Koporići, Trepča and Donja Trepča.[3]
The 1566–67 defter of the sanjak show that the c. 1000 villages of the region were mostly inhabited by Christians, with Muslims comprising forty-six households not in compact communities but spread in thirty villages.[4] As in nearby Pristina the rate of conversion of Orthodox Slavs to Islam was low.
17th century
Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi visited the capital of the sanjak in 1660 and observed that the population spoke "Albanian and Turkish, but not Bosnian".[5] According to Ottoman sources, the sanjak was then inhabited by Albanians, Vlachs, Slavs, Turks, Gypsies and others, of Muslim, Orthodox and Catholic confessions.[6] Among the Christians a Catholic community also existed as evidenced by a local landmark known as the "Latin cemetery" (Albanian: varrezat latine).[7]
18th century
In 1717, during the Austro-Turkish War, the Serb rayah revolted but were brutally suppressed.[8]
19th century
In 1864 during the administrative reforms of the era, it was demoted to a kaza of the newly established sanjak of Pristina.[9]
Administration
In 1459–1826 it was part of Rumelia Eyalet, except for a brief period after 1541 when it was included into newly established Budin Eyalet.[10] It was also part of Temeşvar Eyalet briefly before returning to Rumelia Eyalet.
Governors
- Hussein Bey
- Malik Pasha (fl. 1807–1820s)
- Yashar Pasha (fl. 1830–1836)
Economy
A group of mines on the Kopaonik mountain together with those in Novo Brdo and Janjevo belonged to this sanjak.[11]
References
- ^ Istorijski Glasnik. Društvo istoričara SR Srbije. 1955. p. 61.
...док је подручје Вучитрна остало и даље под влашћу скопског крајишника све до оснивања засебног Вучитрнског или Приштинског санџака. Када је пало Смедерево онда је Призренско-Крушевачки санџак, тзв. "Лазарева Србија" подељен на два санџака. Вучитрн и Приштина су издвојени из Скопског санџака у посебан Вучитрнски санџак
- ^ İnalcık, Halil (1993). Osmanlı İmparatorluğu: toplum ve ekonomi üzerinde arşiv çalışmaları, incelemeler. Eren. p. 80. ISBN 978-975-7622-09-3.
Vulçitrin ( Vuçitrn ) livası mücmel defteri
- ^ Bogdanović, Dimitrije; Radovan Samardžić (1990). Knjiga o Kosovu: razgovori o Kosovu. Književne novine. p. 208. ISBN 978-86-391-0194-7. Retrieved August 2, 2011.
Вучитрнски санџак обухватао је места: Вучитрн, Приштину, Јањево, Ново Брдо, Беласицу, Бело Брдо, Копори- ће, Трепчу и Доњу Трепчу)
- ^ Malcolm, Noel (1998). Kosovo: a short history. Macmillan. p. 106. ISBN 9780333666128. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
- ^ Malcolm, Noel (2009). Eva Frantz (ed.). The "Great Migration" of the Serbs from Kosovo (1690): History, Myth and Ideology. Albanische Geschichte: Stand und Perspektiven der Forschung. Oldenbourg Verlag. p. 230. ISBN 9783486589801. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
- ^ Isuf Ahmeti; (2018) The Administrative System of Cities in Kosovo during the XVI-XVIII centuries p. 79; AAB College. N.1, Vol. 7, Pristina [1]
- ^ Gjini, Gaspër. Ipeshkvia Shkup-Prizren nëpër shekuj (PDF). Diocese of Skopje-Prizren. p. 83. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2013-02-22.
- ^ Bataković, Dušan T. (1991). Kosovo i Metohija u srpsko-arbanaškim odnosima. Priština: Jedinstvo. p. 25. ISBN 86-7019-071-0.
- ^ Stefanaq Pollo; Kristaq Prifti (2002), Historia e popullit shqiptar në katër vëllime (in Albanian), vol. II, Tiranë
- ^ Godišnjak, Volume 4. Istorisko društvo Bosne i Hercegovine. 1954.
- ^ Precious metals in the age of expansion: papers of the XIVth International Congress of the Historical Sciences. Klett-Cotta. 1981.
As for Serbia, we have data only on Novo Brdo, Janjevo and group of mines on Mount Kopaonik which, all together, belonged to the sanjak of Vucitrn
Further reading
- Šipka, Stefan (2023). "ОСМАНСКА ВОЈНА ОРГАНИЗАЦИЈА У ПРОВИНЦИЈИ-ВУЧИТРНСКИ САНЏАК 1544/5. ГОДИНЕ". Војноисторијски гласник (1). Одељење за војну историју, Институт за стратегијска истраживања: 9–28.
- Katić, Tatjana, and Uroš Šešum. "Нахија Вучитрн у XV и XVI веку." Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta u Pristini 55.1 (2025): 181-212.
- Зиројевић, Олга. "Вучитрнски и Призренски санџак у време владавине Сулејмана Величанственог." Историјски часопис 19 (1972): 264-274.