[BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA & KOSOVO / OTTOMAN ADMINISTRATION] Draft and evaluation of the memorandum written by the Muslim Sanjak Council: the intensive administration and bureaucracy activities that the Ottoman Empire initiated in the region...

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Manuscript, [Sanjak], AH August 1326 = [1910].

COMPLETE TITLE: [BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA & KOSOVO / OTTOMAN ADMINISTRATION] Draft and evaluation of the memorandum written by the Muslim Sanjak Council: About a Turkish captain's orphans and his wife and his mother receiving their salary [and] the appointment of a preacher to the village mosque written in 1910, handwritten documents showing the intensive administration and bureaucracy activities that the Ottoman Empire initiated in the region immediately after Austria-Hungary lost the region in 1909, until it lost it again in 1912, the period before the World War I and the beginning of the Balkan Wars (1912-1913).

Two manuscript documents. (34x25 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 2 separate pages including 18 and 16 lines per page.

Historically significant manuscript documents showing the intensive administration and bureaucracy activities that the Ottoman Empire initiated in the region immediately after Austria-Hungary lost the region in 1909, until it lost it again in 1912, the period before World War I and the beginning of the Balkan Wars (1912-1913).

Sanjak (or Sandzak) is a historical geo-political region located in the southwestern part of Serbia and the eastern part of Montenegro. The name Sanjak derives from the Sanjak of Novi Pazar, a former Ottoman administrative district founded in 1865.

Various empires and kingdoms have ruled over the region. In the 12th century, Sanjak was part of the medieval Serbian region of Raška. During the Ottoman Empire's rule over the Balkans, the region became an important administrative district, with Novi Pazar as its administrative center. Sanjak was under Austro-Hungarian occupation between 1878 and 1909 until the Ottoman Empire regained control of the region in 1909. In 1912, it was divided between the Kingdom of Montenegro and the Kingdom of Serbia.

Sanjak stretches from the southeastern border of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the borders with Kosovo and Albania at an area of around 8,500 square kilometers. Six municipalities of Sanjak are in Serbia (Novi Pazar, Sjenica, Tutin, Prijepolje, Nova Varoš, and Priboj), and seven in Montenegro (Pljevlja, Bijelo Polje, Berane, Petnjica, Rožaje, Gusinje and Plav). Sometimes the Montenegrin municipality of Andrijevica is also regarded as part of Sanjak.