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The Ottoman conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina was a process that started roughly in 1384, when the first Ottoman attacks on the Kingdom of Bosnia started. In 1451, more than 50 years after first attacks, the Ottoman Empire officially established the Bosansko Krajište, an interim borderland administrative unit, an Ottoman frontier, in parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1463, the Kingdom fell to the Ottomans, and this territory came under its firm control. Herzegovina fell to the Ottomans in 1482. It took another century for the western parts of today's Bosnia to succumb to Ottoman attacks, ending with the capture of Bihać in 1592.

Origins and etymology

The entire territory that is today known as Bosnia and Herzegovina was not conquered by Ottoman Empire at once, in a single battle; rather, it took the Ottoman Empire several decades to conquer it. Military units of the Ottoman Empire made many raids into feudal principalities in the western Balkans at the end of 14th century, some of them into territory of today's Bosnia and Herzegovina, long before the conquest of the Bosnian Kingdom. The first Ottoman raids led by Timuras-Pasha happened in eastern parts of Bosnia in 1384. The Battle of Bileća in 1388 was the first battle of the Ottoman army on the territory of today's Bosnia and Herzegovina. It soon won important victories against the regional feudal lords in the Battle of Marica (1371) and Battle of Kosovo (1389).

In 1392, the Skopsko Krajište was established in the western Balkan parts of the Ottoman Empire, and the territories later named Bosansko Krajište were governed by same ruler, based in Skopje, the capital of the Serbian Empire between 1346 and 1371. The word krajište is taken from Template:Lang-sr, referring to an administrative unit on the border of Serbian Empire or Serbian Despotate, when the emperor or despot had not established solid and firm control over such unit, due to raids from hostile neighbouring provinces.

War with the Bosnian Kingdom

The first permanent presence of Ottoman armies in Bosnia was established in 1414, after the region near Donji Vakuf (known as Bosnian Skoplje in medieval times) was captured. In period between 1414 and 1418, the Ottoman Empire conquered Foča, Pljevlja, Čajniče and Nevesinje. During the same year Višegrad and Sokol were captured too.

In 1415, Sandalj Hranić of the House of Kosača, who controlled today's eastern Herzegovina, became an Ottoman vassal.

The rulers of Bosansko Krajište included:

Isa-Beg Isaković organized in 1455 one of the first Ottoman censuses in the west Balkan territory.

By the end of this period, in the 1460s, the territory of the Kingdom of Bosnia was significantly reduced, with the Ottoman Empire controlling the entirety of today's eastern Bosnia (region), as far north as Šamac, and Herceg Stjepan under control of all of today's Herzegovina as far north as Glamoč.

Sanjaks

The conquest of the Kingdom of Bosnia ended in 1463 with the death of King Stjepan Tomašević. The Siege of Jajce ensued shortly thereafter, in which the Kingdom of Hungary retook the Jajce Fortress and formed the Banate of Jajce.

The same year, Bosnian Krajište was transformed to Bosnian Sanjak and Isa-Beg Isaković was its first sanjakbey.

After taking the Kingdom of Bosnia in 1463, Mahmud Pasha also invaded Herzegovina and besieged Blagaj, after which Herceg Stjepan conceded a truce that required ceding all of his lands north of Blagaj to the Empire.

The Ottoman territory in Bosnia continued to be expanded into newly established sanjaks: the Sanjak of Herzegovina was formed in the 1470, subordinated to the beglerbey of Rumelia like the Bosnian sanjak. In 1480, the Sanjak of Zvornik was formed, but subordinated to the beglerbey of Budim.

Even though the Bosnian Kingdom fell, there were several fortresses that resisted much longer – the last fortress in Herzegovina fell in 1481. The House of Kosača maintained the Duchy of Saint Sava as an Ottoman vassal state until 1482.

Jajce under Hungarian garrison held until 1527. The House of Berislavić continued to control the region of Usora in the north until it in turn succumbed in the 1530s.

Parts of southwestern Bosnia were sectioned into the Sanjak of Klis formed in 1537, subordinated to the Eyalet of Rumelia.

Aftermath

The Eyalet of Bosnia was established in 1580.

It took until 1592 and the fall of Bihać to form the so-called Turkish Croatia and the modern western border of Bosnia to be established. After that, the territory of modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina remained under largely undisturbed Ottoman rule until 1689 and the Great Turkish War.

References

  1. Ibrahimagić, 1998, p. 77 More than 50 years passed between the first Ottoman attack and the establishment of "Bosansko krajište" as an interim form of military and territorial organisation of Ottoman rule in Bosnia (1451)(22). 22. Šabanović, Bosanski pašaluk, str. 35.
  2. Handžić, Mehmed. "Rasprava h. Mehmeda Handžića o pitanjima vjere stanovništva BiH prije dolaska Turaka te islamizacije prostora BiH". www.bosnjacki-topraci.com (in Bosnian). New York: Association of Bosniaks. 1384 dolazi Timuraš paša sa vojskom i hara po istočnoj Bosni. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |trans_title= (help)
  3. Evliya Çelebi (1967). Hazim Šabanović (ed.). Putopis - Kulturno nasljeđe (in Serbo-Croatian). Svjetlost. p. 279. 29. Skopski sandžak nije osnovan odmah poslije zauzimanja Skoplja, nego je od 1392. pa sve do pada Srbije (1459.) i Bosne (1463.) Skoplje bilo sjedište krajišnika koji su upravljali cijelim turskim područjem od Skoplja do Vrhbosne. Osnivanjem smederevskog i drugih sandžaka u Srbiji i bosanskog sandžaka to je krajište znatno smanjeno i izgubilo značaj koji je dotle imalo. Sredinom XVI. v. ono je postalo središnja oblast zasebnog skopskog sandžaka.
  4. Hamdo Čamo (2010-02-24). (in Bosnian) http://www.camo.ch/spisak_bosanskih_vladara_001.htm. Retrieved 2013-01-10. Bosansko Krajiste 1392-1463 {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  5. Safvet-beg Bašagić (1900). Kratka uputa u prošlost Bosne i Hercegovine, od g. 1463-1850 (in Serbo-Croatian). p. 17. Najprije razmotrimo kraljeve zemlje prije pada. Turci su imali li vlasti slijedeće zemlje i gradove: Nevesinje, Gacko, Zagorje, Podrinje, Taslidžu, Čajnič, Višegrad, Sokol, Srebrenicu, Zvomik, Šabac, Samac i Sarajevo s okolicom. Sva ostala Hercegovina do Glamoča bila je u rukama hercega Stjepana, na koju kralj nije mogo računati. Kad izvadimo još mnoge gradove po sjevernoj i zapadnoj Bosni, u kojima su gospodovali patarenski velikaši, kraljeva država bila je mala podrtina na zemljovidu današnje Herceg-Bosne
  6. ^ Pinson, Mark (1996) . The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Historic Development from Middle Ages to the Dissolution of Yugoslavia (Second ed.). United States of America: President and Fellows of Harvard College. p. 11. ISBN 0-932885-12-8. Retrieved 2012-05-06. The Ottomans conquered Bosnia in 1463; ... though last fortress in Herzegovina was to fall in 1481, and in Bosnia Jajce under Hungarian garrison actually held until 1527 {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |trans_chapter= and |trans_title= (help)
  7. Enciclopedia Croatica (in Croatian) (III ed.). Zagreb: Naklada Hrvatskog Izdavalačkog Bibliografskog Zavoda. 1942. p. 149. Retrieved January 10, 2013. Krajišnik Isabeg imenovan je 1463 sandžakbegom novoustrojenog sandžaka Bosna {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |trans_chapter= and |trans_title= (help)
  8. Safvet-beg Bašagić (1900). Kratka uputa u prošlost Bosne i Hercegovine, od g. 1463-1850 (in Serbo-Croatian). p. 20. U Hercegovini Mahmut paša je udario na nenadani otpor. Kršna zemlja Hercegovina sa golim brdima, tijesnim klancima i nepristupnim gradovima zadavaše turskom konjaništvu puno neprilika. Osim toga domaći bogumili junački su se borili uz svoga hercega i njegove sinove. Doduše Mahmut paša je dolinom Neretve sjavio do pod Blagaj i obsijedao ga; nu je li ga zauzeo ili je poslije nagodbe s hercegom predao mu se, nema sigurnih vijesti. Videći herceg Stjepan, da bez povoljna uspjeha, Mahmut paša ne će ostaviti Hercegovine, opremi najmlagjega sina Stjepana s bogatim darovima sultanu, da moli primirje. Na to Fatih ponudi, da gornju polovinu svojih zemlje ustupi Turskoj, a donju zadrži za se i za sinove. Mladoga Stjepana kao taoca zadrži u Carigradu, koji iza kratkog vremena pregje na islam pod imenom Ahmed beg Hercegović. Herceg Stjepan pristane na sultanovu ponudu, pa sklopi mir i ustupi Turcima svu gornju Hercegovinu do Blagaja. Na to Mahmud paša bude pozvan u Carigrad.
  9. "Usora i Soli u prva dva stoljeća turske prevlasti". Povijesni zbornik: godišnjak za kulturu i povijesno nasljeđe (in Croatian). 1 (1–2). Faculty of Philosophy, University of Osijek: 53, 58. 2007. ISSN 1846-3819. Retrieved 2012-09-02. Nakon što je tridesetih godina XVI. stoljeća Usora pala pod tursku vlast, nestankom posljednjeg Berislavića Padom utvrđenog naselja Kobaša 1536. godine, turske vlasti od toga su naselja stvorile sjedište kadiluka i nahije. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  10. Ibrahimagić, 1998, p. 77 And 117 years passed from the fall of Bosnia in 1463, when the first sanjak was established as the first independent form of military, administrative and political form of organisation of Ottoman rule in Bosnia, until the establishment of the Bosnian beglerbegluk or ayalet as a separate province of the Ottoman Empire in 1580.

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