Prilike u Bosanskom ejaletu uoči tursko-mletačkog rata 1714-1718. godine
The Situation in the Bosnian Eyalet on the Eve of Ottoman-Venetian War 1714-1718

Summary/Abstract: After the signing of the Karlovac peace treaty the Bosnian eyalet became the province with the most forward position in the European part of the ottoman Empire. The disorganized internal conditions which had come into existence during the Viennese War, also continued in the first years of peace. However, in the course of time the situation to a certain degree changed for the better. There was no more anarchy in administration or lack of discipline in all fields, which had been regularly the case during the war and in the first years' after it. The strengthening of the central authority's influence was followed by a strengthening of the significance and role of the provincial autohorities. But despite the establishment of that illusory order and peace, corruption and bribery existed in all social structures. That acute illness of Ottoman, and Eastern society in general, was nearly incurable at that time. Even the decade after the conclusion of the peace treaty wasn't enough for a reduction of the numerous individual and collective appeals to the local administrators, which arrived from all the cadilucs of this province. The Porte 'and the Bosnian regents, who received the majority of the appeals, answered, as a rule, that the case should be legally solved upon inquiry. The number of injustices which were proved and corrected is hard to discover on the basis of the archives available today. This situation in administrative-legal affairs lasted until 1714, when a new war broke out.

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