Academic literature on the topic 'Vidin (Bulgarie ; province)'

La thèse porte sur la province ottomane de Vidin au XVe et XVIe siècle en cinq chapitres consacrés à la situation géographique de la province et à son parcours historique avant la conquête ottomane, à sa structure administrative, à la répartition de sa population selon le statut fiscal. Elle fournit une présentation détaillée de la documentation et un aperçu sur la fiscalité et le système d'affermage. L'étude est fondée sur une série des registres de recensement ottomans, mais l'auteur a également consulté d'autres documentations ottomanes dans les archives d'Istanbul et Ankara (Turquie) et de Sofia (Bulgarie). Le but principal du travail était de reconstituer l'histoire d'une province balkanique ottomane ayant hérité une formation étatique pré-ottomane. Il fournit une base de données pour des recherches similaires sur d'autres provinces balkaniques à l'époque ottomane, ainsi que pour une étude sur la même région au cours des siècles postérieurs<br>The thesis studies the Ottoman province of Vidin in the 15th and 16th centuries in five chapters providing a systematic survey of the geographical situation of the province of Vidin and of historical evolution before the Ottoman conquest, its administrative structure, and the repartition of its population according to the fiscal status. A detailed presentation of the documentation and an outline of the tax collection and farming system are also provided. The study is based on a series of Ottoman fiscal surveys. But the author also uses other Ottoman archival documents preserved in Ankara and Istanbul (Turkey) and in Sofia (Bulgaria). The main purpose is to reconstitute the history of an Ottoman Balkan province that had inherited a pre-Ottoman state formation. It gives an important data base for similar researches about other Balkan provinces in the Ottoman period. It also gives informations for a study of the Vidin region after the 16th century

This thesis analyzes the life and power politics of Pazvandoglu Osman, Ayan of Vidin, in the 18th century with references to the changes in the Ottoman provincial administration experienced between the 17th and 18th centuries. Osman&rsquo<br>s relations with the Ottoman central government and the policy that the latter followed towards him will also be given to show the Ottoman methods of coping with the oppositional groups in the provinces in the case of Pazvandoglu Osman in the 18th and 19th centuries. Moreover his relations with the people of Vidin as well as with the neighboring ayans will be displayed to examine how an ayan ruled and represented people and also how important an ayan was in the development of a city. In addition a description of the Ottoman Balkans in general and Vidin in particular will also be analyzed from the point of view of their contributions to the rise of Pazvandoglu Osman within the context of cause and effect relations.

This book explores Ottoman local governance during the liberal-capitalist state formation of the long 19^th century (1789-1922) with a particular focus on the administrative and judiciary councils of the Vidin County in the second half of the 19^th century. It explains the structure and procedures of these councils and provides an analysis of their function in local politics and economics in addition to an examination of their correspondence and people who worked in the governmental sphere dominated by these councils. Between 1396 and 1878, Vidin was a town under Ottoman administration and became a county centre in the Danube Province when an imperial reform restructured provincial governance and redefined imperial administrative divisions in 1864. The processes explored here focus mostly on the individuals’ rights to the means of production because a majority of the disputes within and petitions from the provinces during the nineteenth century were concerned with property and taxation. Local agents and groups engaged with each other within the judicio-administrative sphere dominated by these councils and sought to advance their interests by using the language, rules and practices of Ottoman governance. This book argues that in 19^th century Vidin, we do not see a binary opposition between a state that coerces transformation against a society that opposes reforms. Vidiners, including the notables and the less wealthy inhabitants utilized the judicio-administrative sphere as a hegemonic domain to pursue their strategies as they problematized proper governance (debating matters of property, security, market order and population) as part of Ottoman biopolitics.

This chapter explores the narrative function of the debates and correspondence associated with provincial governance around a particular problem: refugees. During the second half of the 19^th century, more than a hundred thousand refugees came to Ottoman Bulgaria because of Russian expansion to the Caucasus. A great majority of these refugees were Circassians. This wave was contemporaneous with other demographic movements: over ten thousand Bulgarian Christians who had left for Russia as part of a population exchange between Ottomans and Russians returned back and had to be re-settled, several thousand Muslim families left a recently independent Serbia for Ottoman Empire. The refugees came at a point of economic growth in Ottoman Bulgaria and many were settled in the Vidin County. By examining how the local agents problematised the refugee settlement process in provincial correspondence, this chapter analyses the parallels between provincial politics and the imperial transformation into a liberal-capitalist social formation, where a presumably autonomous market order determined the limits of governance. This perspective is essential in looking at the empire from the provincial level and challenges the presumed path of reforms as unidirectional from the imperial centre to the provinces.

This chapter explains the primary focus and the theoretical devices for the book, introduces Vidin region and provides a brief outline for the chapters. Provincial councils were key offices of Ottoman governance from 1840s onward. In the broader context of Ottoman liberal-capitalist social formation during the long 19^th century (1789-1922), local councils provided a venue for local agents pursue competing political and economic strategies. Conventional historiography on 19^th century Ottoman state-society relations puts a lot of emphasis on an imperial regulation from 1864 in explaining provincial councils as an extension of imperial centralization policies. This study shifts the focus of research on provincial documents produced by such councils to reveal how these offices and practices of Ottoman governance served as a platform for the political and economic negotiations of provincial agents pursuing their interests. The documents produced by the provincial councils in Vidin County in Ottoman-administered Bulgaria provide a rich source to explore the dynamics of 19^th century Ottoman governance in its full richness focusing on property rights, security matters, market order and population management.