Проявите на криза в Османската империя през XVIII в. и промените в контекста на системата илтизам
Crises Manifestation in the Ottoman Empire during the 18th C. and the Changes in the Church Mukata' as within the Context of Iltizam System

Summary/Abstract: As part of the instructions of the Ottoman authority the Patriarchy of Constantinople and the churches in the Balkans – the Patriarchy of Pech and the Archbishop-patriarchy of Ohrid – are directly affected by the new realities in the empire during the 18th c. The domination of the iltizâm system in the Ottoman economy and social life in the 17th and 18th cc. projects significant changes in the Orthodox church both at macro and micro level. At least formally, the state considers the patriarchs and metropolitans as mültezims of legalized with judicial and fiscal immunity mukâta’as. On the basis of different type of documents, issued in the chancellery Piskopos mukâta’ası kalemi („Chancellery of the Bishop mukâta’as“), – patriarchal and metropolitan berâts, sultan’s fermâns, annual income-expenditure statements, the so called surest, suret-i ruznamçe hakani, etc. – the study attempts to trace the changes in the structure of the church mukâta’as, as well as the specific purpose of the delivered piskes in the context of the manifestations of a crisis in the Ottoman Empire during the 18th c.

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