Никополският санджак през XV–XVI век. Административно-териториално деление
The Sancak of Nikopol in the 15th – 16th Centuries. Administrative-territorial Division

Summary/Abstract: The occupation of the Bulgarian lands in the late 14th c. by the Ottomans had important consequences for a number of aspects of the life of the local population. The concrete military-strategic situation and tasks facing the conquerors determined also the directions of the military-administrative structure of these territories. The sancak of Nikopol was formed on the basis of a considerable part of the territory of the Kingdom of Turnovo. In an administrative respect it was divided into nahiyes, and from the end of the 15th c. some of them formed kazas. The system of roads, fortresses and strong points along the Danube existing before the invasion were retained. The task of the rapid military and administrative consolidation of these parts of the Peninsula became a fundamental goal of the local and central authorities from the middle of the 15th century on. With the change of the general military-strategical situation in the lower reaches of the Danube and in the direction of the Crimean Peninsula and Southern Russia was changed also the motivation in forming the administrative structure of the sancak.

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