Teritorijalna i upravna organizacija Visočke nahije do početka 17. stoljeća
Territorial and Administrative Organization of the Nahiya of Visoko until the Beginning of the17th Century

Summary/Abstract: This paper describes the territorial and administrative organization of the nahiya of Visoko until the beginning of the 17th century. This region had become a part of the Ottoman Empire before the final fall of the medieval Bosnian state under Ottoman rule (1463). According to manuscripts of Ottoman origin the nahiya of Visoko was established and existing as such in February, 1462. According to the data of the first register regarding this region and dating 1468/9, the nahiya of Visoko consisted of: Visoko, the capital of the nahiya, 56 district settlements and 11 mezra's. During the period between 1470 and 1485, when a territorial reorganization of the Bosnian sanjak was accomplished, the nahiyas od Lepenica, Fojnica and Kreševo were attached to the nahiya of Visoko, and they remaIned constituent parts of it during the 17th century. In the course of the 15th and 16th centuries the territorial extent of the nahiya of Visoko underwent many changes.

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