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One Month of Brisk Trade. State Regulation of the Urban Economy in the Bulgarian Lands in the Nineteenth Century

Author(s): Rumen Kovachev, Rumyana Radkova
Subject(s): Economy, Agriculture, Comparative history, Economic history, Ethnohistory, Modern Age, Special Historiographies:, 19th Century, The Ottoman Empire, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Институт за исторически изследвания - Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Ottoman customs; Dupnitsa; 1846-1847; economy;Nineteenth century;

Summary/Abstract: The material is part of the Ottoman customs register of Dupnitsa for financial year 1846–1847. The Register describes the goods that passed through the state land control – their type, quantity, value, the size of gyumruk (customs duty) and the market fee (bach). The names of the traders, the villages they came from and traveled to are also entered in the register. Dupnitsa is one of the few land customs stations in the Bulgarian lands in the nineteenth century, situated on strategically important country roads from Thessaloniki to Sofia and Europe and from the Adriatic Sea to Plovdiv, Odrin and Tsarigrad. The author presents a translation and commentary of the first 5 of the 20 pages of the register preserved in the Ottoman Department of the National Library St. Cyril and Methodius, Sofia. So far this is the only document of land customs checkpoints in the Bulgarian lands in the nineteenth century, which makes it a source of great cognitive significance, not only for goods flow and turnover at Dupnitsa, but also for documenting the Ottoman regulation policy of the urban economy in the Bulgarian lands at that time.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 91-106
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Bulgarian