Tracing the origin of a new meaning of the term re‘āyā in the eighteenth-century ottoman Balkans

Besides its usage with the primary meanings: 1) social status; 2) subjectship, the term re‘āyā was used to denote, as many historians tend to claim, “only non-Muslim subjects” from “sometime” in the second half of the eighteenth and in the nineteenth century. The paper demonstrates that thi...

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Main Author: Fotić Aleksandar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute for Balkan Studies SASA 2017-01-01
Series:Balcanica
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Online Access:http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-7653/2017/0350-76531748055F.pdf