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For both the traveler and the pilgrim, “les khans de Bosnie sont de vastes granges”?: a material approach on mobilities in Ottoman Bosnia (16th-19th centuries)

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The study of Ottoman Bosnia road infrastructure suffers from a strong historiographical segmentation between the early and late Ottoman periods, as well as from a weak dialogue between individually investigated thematic fields (trade, pilgrimage, embassies, espionage…). However, Bosnian mountainous relief tends to lead mobility to follow long-term similar paths. Furthermore, sources reveal that the merchant, the pilgrim, the ambassador as well as the spy stay overnight at the same ḥan-s and cross the same bridges. Therefore, between the beginning of the 16th century (first precise travel narratives) and the end of the 19th century (end of the Ottoman period, but also the first exhaustive cartographic campaign of Bosnia), it is possible to conceive the road and its infrastructure as a continuum, which is punctuated by descriptions on road and infrastructure condition proposed in sources. Thus, this presentation is based on the linking of various sources: published or unpublished European travel accounts, Ottoman taḥrir defter-s and Austro-Hungarian cadastral maps. Mobilizing this plural and complementary documentation makes it possible to propose an overview of the evolution of the road and its infrastructures in Bosnia. The investigated road section links Banja Luka with Višegrad and Zvornik, passing through Sarajevo (all the sites in present-day Bosnia-Herzegovina). After presenting the documentation corpus and the methodology, the presentation will focus on global considerations concerning the investigated section, before to open up to specific and local considerations.
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hal-03953213 , version 1 (23-01-2023)

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Therouin Vincent. For both the traveler and the pilgrim, “les khans de Bosnie sont de vastes granges”?: a material approach on mobilities in Ottoman Bosnia (16th-19th centuries). Travellers in Ottoman Lands: The Balkans, Anatolia and Beyond, Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE); Fakultet islamskih nauka Univerziteta u Sarajevu, Aug 2022, Sarajevo, France. ⟨hal-03953213⟩
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