Társadalmi konfliktusok a Skopjei szandzsák területén. Mindennapi erõszak az oszmán uralom végnapjaiban (1900–1912)
Social Conflicts in the Skopski Sanjak. Everyday Violence on the Eve of the Collapse of Ottoman Central Power (1900–1912)

Summary/Abstract: The article investigates the forms and tendencies of everyday violence, e.g. atrocities committed not by the state in the Skopski sanjak border region of the Ottoman Empire on the eve of the collapse of the central government. Based on primary sources from the Haus- Hof- und Staatsarchiv, Wien, and supported by case studies studied at the Central State Archives of Sofia, the authors aim to examine the role of religious differences, nationality, geographic location in the patterns and spread of tensions from 1905, when Macedonian reforms were put under the auspice of Powers, by using a statistically evaluated sample of some 200 cases. The strategies of neighbouring states – from financial support to the organisation of paramilitary units, from cooperation of local parties with the Ottoman Empire to the direct intervention – as well as microsocial strategies of survival (violence within and between families manifested as ’ethnic’ tensions, migration, giving up/changing national identity for financial support) are also analysed in the second part of the study.

• Details
• Contents