Вакуфи у сумарном попису Смедеревског санџака из 1530. године
Waqfs in the Summary Register of the Smederevo Sanjak from the Year 1530.

Summary/Abstract: The summary register of the Smederevo sanjak MAD 506 from the year 1530 was not created on the ground, but in the Court offices, by transcribing data from official defters. Through internal analysis and comparison with defters of the Smederevo sanjak created in the 1516–1532 period, we ascertained that data on waqfs originate from the lost register of the Smederevo sanjak compiled in 1522–1523. We established that the same data on waqfs are also contained in the non-dated summary defter TD 135, in regard to which we have also determined that its transcript was created in late 1531 or early 1532. Of the two summary registers, which contain data on waqfs from the lost sanjak register of 1522–1523, MAD 506 is more comprehensive. We have therefore used it as the basis for publication. The data contained only in the summary register TD 135 are also included in the text and are marked in italics. The register that we present is divided into three sections. The first contains waqfs of Smederevo, the second the waqf of Piri Mehmed Paşa in Belgrade, the waqf of the Ravanica monastery, the mülk of Bali Bey Yahya Paşa, and endowments in the fortresses of Kulič, Ram, Golubac and Resava, while the third segment relates to waqfs of Niš. The amount of money invested in waqfs, as well as the revenue and expenditure of waqf buildings, testify to modest investments and limited economic activities in the Smederevo sanjak before the conquest of Belgrade in 1521, which was due mostly to the frontier status of the sanjak and the danger from Hungarian attacks.

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