Transformation of the medieval urban landscape: from Serbian Ras to Ottoman Novi Pazar
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Katić, TatjanaVojvodić, Uglješa
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Botić, KatarinaSekelj Ivančan, Tajana
Tkalčec, Tatjana
Krznar, Siniša
Belaj, Juraj
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The expansion of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans during the second half of the 14th and in the 15th century led to the disappearance of medieval Christian states and the establishment of a new political regime with Islam as the ruling religion. This resulted in numerous cultural, social, economic and demographic changes. Some of them were drastic and arose immediately upon the arrival of the conquerors, while others were less pronounced or at least initially absent. The least noticeable, especially in the first centuries of Ottoman rule, were changes in the cultural
landscape. The exceptions were important urban centers in which certain visual changes were obvious already after the conquest. Namely, cities would, usually im-mediately after falling into Ottoman hands, gain at least one mosque, with which the conqueror would “mark” the newly acquired land. This most expressive symbol of the new ideology would most often be created by converting the largest city's church, that is, the ...church whose position dominated the urban landscape. This would be followed by the construction of other buildings with the aim of adapting the conquered city to the needs of Muslims and the Ottoman vision of ideally organized urban space. The process of adaptation and transformation of existing urban settlements, especially those with rich layers of Byzantine-Slavic heritage, as well as its scope, occurred at dierent rates depending on local circumstances and the needs of the Ottoman state itself. Thus, some cities underwent minimal changes in spatial organization, while others were completely transformed. Bearing in mind that each city is a case for itself, we decided to analyze in more detail the transformation of medieval Ras into the Ottoman city of Ras, which in the process received another, later the only, name – Novi Pazar.
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Ras / Novi Pazar / Ottomanisation / Cultural landscape / Isa BeySource:
Using Landscape in the Middle Ages in the Light of Interdisciplinary Research : Proceedings of the 6th International Scientific Conference on Mediaeval Archaeology of the Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, 6th June 2019, 2021, 18, 83-90Publisher:
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Археолошки институт / Institute of ArchaeologyTY - CHAP AU - Katić, Tatjana AU - Vojvodić, Uglješa PY - 2021 UR - http://rai.ai.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1464 AB - The expansion of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans during the second half of the 14th and in the 15th century led to the disappearance of medieval Christian states and the establishment of a new political regime with Islam as the ruling religion. This resulted in numerous cultural, social, economic and demographic changes. Some of them were drastic and arose immediately upon the arrival of the conquerors, while others were less pronounced or at least initially absent. The least noticeable, especially in the first centuries of Ottoman rule, were changes in the cultural landscape. The exceptions were important urban centers in which certain visual changes were obvious already after the conquest. Namely, cities would, usually im-mediately after falling into Ottoman hands, gain at least one mosque, with which the conqueror would “mark” the newly acquired land. This most expressive symbol of the new ideology would most often be created by converting the largest city's church, that is, the church whose position dominated the urban landscape. This would be followed by the construction of other buildings with the aim of adapting the conquered city to the needs of Muslims and the Ottoman vision of ideally organized urban space. The process of adaptation and transformation of existing urban settlements, especially those with rich layers of Byzantine-Slavic heritage, as well as its scope, occurred at dierent rates depending on local circumstances and the needs of the Ottoman state itself. Thus, some cities underwent minimal changes in spatial organization, while others were completely transformed. Bearing in mind that each city is a case for itself, we decided to analyze in more detail the transformation of medieval Ras into the Ottoman city of Ras, which in the process received another, later the only, name – Novi Pazar. PB - Zagreb : Institut za arheologiju T2 - Using Landscape in the Middle Ages in the Light of Interdisciplinary Research : Proceedings of the 6th International Scientific Conference on Mediaeval Archaeology of the Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, 6th June 2019 T1 - Transformation of the medieval urban landscape: from Serbian Ras to Ottoman Novi Pazar EP - 90 SP - 83 VL - 18 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rai_1464 ER -
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Katić, T.,& Vojvodić, U.. (2021). Transformation of the medieval urban landscape: from Serbian Ras to Ottoman Novi Pazar. in Using Landscape in the Middle Ages in the Light of Interdisciplinary Research : Proceedings of the 6th International Scientific Conference on Mediaeval Archaeology of the Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, 6th June 2019 Zagreb : Institut za arheologiju., 18, 83-90. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rai_1464
Katić T, Vojvodić U. Transformation of the medieval urban landscape: from Serbian Ras to Ottoman Novi Pazar. in Using Landscape in the Middle Ages in the Light of Interdisciplinary Research : Proceedings of the 6th International Scientific Conference on Mediaeval Archaeology of the Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, 6th June 2019. 2021;18:83-90. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rai_1464 .
Katić, Tatjana, Vojvodić, Uglješa, "Transformation of the medieval urban landscape: from Serbian Ras to Ottoman Novi Pazar" in Using Landscape in the Middle Ages in the Light of Interdisciplinary Research : Proceedings of the 6th International Scientific Conference on Mediaeval Archaeology of the Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, 6th June 2019, 18 (2021):83-90, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rai_1464 .