Belgrade Pashalyk (Smederevsky Sandzak) ( Serbian. Smederevski sanџak , Smederevski sandžak or Turkish . Semendire Sancağı ) is the territory of the Ottoman Empire , located in the region of modern Central Serbia .
History
Belgrade Pashalyk was formed after the Serbian despotism entered the Ottoman Empire in 1459, the administrative center was the city of Smederevo . After the conquest of Belgrade in 1521, the administrative center was moved to Belgrade, respectively. From 1718 to 1739, the Belgrade Pashalyk was part of the Habsburg Monarchy .
In Belgrade during the Turkish rule there were 273 mosques and madrassas . The capital of Serbia was more like a typical Turkish city with curved streets and oriental bazaars - than a European city .
However, for a brief period of Austrian power (only 22 years), - the cleansing of the foreign yoke began , - most Muslim minarets , madrassas and mosques were destroyed, some of them were converted into Christian churches .
But under the Belgrade Peace Treaty returned to the Ottoman Empire . In the years 1789-1791 he again entered the Habsburg possession. After the Serbian revolution , the Principality of Serbia was formed on the territory of Belgrade Pashalyk under the leadership of the Serbian prince Milos Obrenovic .
By 1804, the population of pashalyk was only about 400 thousand people, of which from 40 to 50 thousand were Muslims (mostly Islamized Slavs).
Administrative Division
At the end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th centuries, pashalyk was divided into 12 nakhis :
- Belgrade Nakhiya
- Smederevskaya nakhiya
- Pozharevatskaya nakhiya
- Chupri Nakhiya
- Yagodinsky Nakhiya
- Kragujevack nahiya
- Uzhitskaya nakhiya
- Valevskaya Nakhiya
- Shabat Nakhiya
- Rudnichskaya nakhiya
- Sokos nahiya
- Boravići Nakhiya