Приходи кадилука Призрен од трговине свилом, рудника Корише и осталог (1525-1544. године)
The Prizren Kadilik's Incomes from Silk Trade, Koriša Mine and Other (for the Years 1525-1544)

Summary/Abstract: This article presents an accounting register made by Finance Department of the Ottoman Empire (Maliyeden mudevver defteri, no 656) which contains data on incomes, expenditures and treasury payments, concerning farming of some public revenues in the Prizren sancak. These are: silk weighing scale, Prizren chandlery, estates of persons dying without heirs, lost property, property of an unknown owner, and, what is the most important, the Koriša silver mine near Prizren. Data from this register, as well as from some other Ottoman registers of which the earliest information was from 1488, testified that the mine had its own işçi has, consisted of the following villages in 1518: Koriša, Planjane, Stretinovce (Nova Šumadija) and Sveti Petar (Kabaš); in 1530. the total amount of 165.000 akçe was paid for three-year lease of the mine, işçi has and some less significant income sources; also, until 1535, the Koriša silver mine had been managed by Christians. In the following period Muslims were mine managers, contractors and renters.

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