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Bibliography of Historical Sources about Population for the Cetina Valley, Dalmatia, 16th-18th Centuries

List of key historical sources about the population of the Cetina Valley in Dalmatia in the mid-16th through early 18th centuries. For each entry, the year and title of the source are given, followed by a brief description, details about the original source of the data, and bibliographic information where this data has been published (if relevant). The final section includes a list of resources that may contain further information about this region.


Sources

1550 – Ottoman mufassal defteri of the sanjak of Klis

Description: Detailed register of a census conducted for the conquered region of Klis. [Possibly part of a larger series of defterler for all the conquered parts of Dalmatia.]

Source: TT284, Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi.

Bibliography: Spaho and Aličić 2007.

1604 – Ottoman mufassal defteri (details unknown)

Description: Detailed register of a census, including the nahiye of Sinj and Cetina and the liva of Klis.

Source: unknown.

Bibliography: Currently unpublished. See Spaho 1985.

1701 – Ottoman defter of lands conquered from the Venetian Republic

Description: Detailed register of territories reclaimed from the Venetian Republic, covering the sanjaks of Krka, Klis and Herzegovina

Source: TT861, Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi.

Bibliography: Hafizović 2016.


Bibliography

Hafizović, Fazileta. 2016. Popis sela i zemlje sandžaka Krka, Klis i Hercegovina, oslobođenih od Mletačke Republike 1701. Godine [List of Villages and Lands in the Sanjacks of Krka, Klis and Herzegovina, Liberated from the Venetian Republic in 1701]. Zagreb: Srpsko kulturno društvo Prosvjeta, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu; Sarajevo: Orijentalni institut.

Spaho, Fehim Dž. 1985. Jedan turski popis Sinja i Vrlike iz 1604. Godine [A Turkish Inventory of Sinj and Vrlika from 1604]. Acta historico-oeconomica Iugoslaviae 12(1): 21-120.

Spaho, Fehim Dž. and Ahmed S. Aličić (trans.). 2007. Opširni popis Kliškog sandžaka iz 1550.godine [The 1550 Detailed Register of the Sanjak of Klis]. Monumenta Turcica historiam Slavorum Meridionalium illustrantia, Serija II, Defteri; Knj. 5. Sarajevo: Orijentalni Institute.


See Also

Erceg, Ivan, Ante Milošević, Stijepo Obad, Marinko Perić, Ante Josip Soldo, Fehim Dž. Spaho (eds). 1989. Sinj i Cetinska krajina za vrijeme osmanlijske vlasti [Sinj and the Cetina Krajina during the Ottoman Empire]. Zbornik Cetinske krajine, Knjiga 4. Sinj: Kulturno društvo “Cetinjanin.”

Hafizović, Fazileta. 2016. Kliški sandžak od osnivanja do početka Kandijskog rata: (1537-1645.) [The Sanjak of Klis from its Foundation to the Beginning of the Candian War (1537-1645)]. Posebna izdanja 46. Sarajevo: Orijentalni Institute.

Jurić, Šime. 1982. Građa za bibliografiju cetinske krajine do 1980 [Bibliography of the Cetina Region through 1980]. Sinj: Kulturno društvo “Cetinjanin.”

Soldo, Fra Josip Ante. 1997. Sinjska krajina u 17. i 18. Stoljeću [The Sinj Region in the 17th and 18th centuries], 2 vols. Sinj.

Spaho, Fehim Dž. 1986. Splitsko zaleđe u prvim turskim popisma [The Hinterland of Split in the First Turkish Census]. Acta historico-oeconomica Iugoslaviae 13: 47-86.

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