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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| Language: | English |
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Institute for Balkan Studies SASA
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Balcanica |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-7653/2017/0350-76531748055F.pdf |