2015/01/01 by Radenko Šćekić, Zarko Lekovic, Marijan Premovıć · 3 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Balkan and Eastern European Studies #Balkans: History, Politics, Society #Feudalism #Serbian #Politics #Population #Ancient history #Tribe #Islamization #History #Ethnic group #Geography #Political science #Sociology #Demography #Law #Philosophy
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During the centuries of Ottoman rule the Tara and Lim river valleys (or Potarje and Polimlje respectively), the Pester Plateau and Old Herzegovina saw much turbulence, wars, rebellions, population migrations. This chaotic situation was combined with the arbitrary and repressive conduct of local Ottoman feudal lords. Migrations, interethnic contacts and mixing of populations as well as an intensified Islamization process caused by a number of factors greatly complicated the situation. Albanian northward penetration along the Lim and into Pester as well as the expansion of the Vasojevici tribe into the Upper Lim valley added to the complexity of the ethnic and demographic picture of the region. Perpetual rebellions against the Otto?man occupation eventually led to the liberation of the Serbian Orthodox population of these areas.