By Fatma Sel Turhan

Bosnia loved a different prestige in the Ottoman Empire. some of the empire's 'janissaries', an elite army stratum of infantrymen and nobleman, hailed from this Balkan sector. So while Sultan Mehmet II abolished this warrior category in 1826, and this curtailed the areas entry to persuade in Constantinople, Bosnia rebelled. lower than the management of Husein Gradašcevic, the 'dragon of Bosnia', the dominion declared independence and waged struggle with the Ottoman Empire. For the 1st time, Fatma Sel Turhan illuminates a interval of the most important value to the Balkan areas. She argues convincingly that the rebellion used to be a reaction to Ottoman strikes in the direction of modernization designed to save lots of the Ottoman Empire from decline, yet which finally resulted in its death. She assesses how a long way the rebellion may be thought of a nationalist flow, who the rebels have been, and the way the valuable gurus handled and punished the perpetrators. The Ottoman Empire and the Bosnian Uprising is an incredible clean contribution to our realizing of the overdue Ottoman international and the background of the Balkans.

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Following this, it tries to show how the Bosnian people took a leading part politically in regional events. In that sense, for Bosnia, the acceptance of rebellion as a form of regional policy-making and the existence of a culture of resistance in terms of introducing regional demands to the central authorities are examined in detail. It then analyses the reactions after the abolition of the janissary corps in Bosnia and the repercussions following this throughout the region. It summarizes events following the arrival of the new vali, Abdurrahim Pașa, and his efforts to suppress the rebellion and to establish a new order.

They argue that the çiftlik system paved the way for the commercialization of production and a change in the status of the peasantry, both of which are necessary components of peripheralization. 37 Moreover, Bruce McGowan closely associates the rise of ayan with the change in the land tenure system. To him, while the deterioration in the land tenure system gave rise to life-term tax-farm leases known as malikane and decreased state control over the lands, the deterioration in military status altered the military/non-military dichotomy on which Ottoman society was constructed.

In that sense, for Bosnia, the acceptance of rebellion as a form of regional policy-making and the existence of a culture of resistance in terms of introducing regional demands to the central authorities are examined in detail. It then analyses the reactions after the abolition of the janissary corps in Bosnia and the repercussions following this throughout the region. It summarizes events following the arrival of the new vali, Abdurrahim Pașa, and his efforts to suppress the rebellion and to establish a new order.

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