The Serbs under turkish rule from the beginning of the 16th and to th end of the 18th century

Pre-requisites: Regular class attendance and fulfilling academic responsibilities

Course objectives: An introduction to the most important issues and opportunities facing the Serbs under turkish rule; analyzing serbian social structure, the creation of national institutions, problem of involving serbs in austro-turkish and venetian-turkish wars.

Course description: Theoretical component:lecture on major issues and developments in the history of the Serbian people under the Turks - problems surrounding continuity and discontinuity of serbian society, demographic rises and falls, migration patterns, national and social institutions, influence of austrian-turkish and venetian-turkish wars on opportunity on these territories, economic opportunity and daily life. Practical component:evaluating particular issues through preserved historical sources, particularly legal artifacts and economic writings. The goal is for students to be able to conduct independent work, scientific argumentation and critical assessment of sources and literature, as well as present their findings in written and oral form.

Learning Outcomes: Mastering course materials, historical methods and arguments in historiography, students will be provided a long-term base of knowledge for critically assessing questions in the history of the Serbs under turkish rule

Literature/Reading:

• Istorija srpskog naroda, III-IV, Beograd 1993.
• Istorija Crne Gore, 3, Titograd 1975.
• Đoko Slijepčević, Istorija Srpske pravoslavne crkve, I, Beograd 2002, 277-450.
• Dušanka Bojanić, Turski zakoni i zakonski propisi iz XV i XVI veka za smederevsku, kruševačku i vidinsku oblast, Beograd 1974.
• Olga Zirojević, Tursko vojno uređenje u Srbiji 1459-1683, Beograd 1974.
• Milan Vasić, Stanovništvo Kruševačkog sandžaka i njegova društvena struktura u XVI veku, /u knjizi/: Kruševac kroz vekove, Kruševac 1972, 49-73.
• Milan Vasić, Islamizacija na Balkanskom poluostrvu, Istočno Sarajevo 2005.
• Dušanka Bojanić, Jadar u XVI i XVII veku, Jadar u prošlosti, Loznica 1985, 77-191.
• Bruce W. McGowan, Sirem sancağı mufassal tahrir defteri, Ankara 1983.
• Napomena: dopunska literatura se određuje za svakog studenta pojedinačno prema njegovim interesovanjima i potrebama nastave