Юрушката колонизация и овладяването на пространството в части от Горнотракийската низика през XV–XVI в.
The Yörük Colonization and the Process of Conquering Space in Parts of Upper Thrace in the 15th – 16th Centuries
Author(s): Milena Petkova, Stefan DimitrovSubject(s): History, Military history, Social history, Middle Ages, Modern Age, Special Historiographies:, 15th Century, 16th Century, The Ottoman Empire
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: Upper Thrace; Yörüks; fifteenth-sixteenth centuries; colonization; economy
Summary/Abstract: The Ottoman conquest of the Balkans and the Bulgarian lands, in particular, was followed by the migration of Muslim population from Asia Minor. A significant part of this population was the semi-nomadic groups of the Yörüks. The present paper traces back the stages of the Yörük colonization in Upper Thrace, which started with the Ottoman conquest of these territories. It reveals the changes regarding the establishment of a new settlement network and the process of demographic seizure of the territory under study. It discusses the old hypothesis of “depopulated” Thrace and the political events from the late medieval period and the first centuries of the Ottoman rule in the region.
Journal: Балканите – език, история, култура
- Issue Year: 7/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 159-169
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English, Bulgarian